You grew up before the 14th C.?
I think the country has Johnsonville to thank. Mass marketed brats to the nation from a proper Wisconsin town that knows what it’s doing. They aren’t the best brats can be, but anyone who has eaten even one will never look at a Nathan’s Hotdog again.
My problem with Starbucks is
- I have to pull up the website to find a drink I actually want, and
- I get tongue-tied trying to blurt out the long, polysyllabic, name of the drink.
I don’t order it in restaurants. I make it (avocado toast) for myself at home. There I can “accessorize” it to my tastes. I like it with a very thin layer of smoked salmon.
Same here. I don’t have it often at all, but when I do, it always has been at home. I’m a frugal bastard at heart, so I have difficulty sometimes when simple things like that go for, what would it be $7?, when I could make it for a buck or two and the way I like it with the exact bread I want.
I do associate it more with breakfast, brunch, and lunch in that order. Don’t think I’ve ever had it for dinner. It’s a light, earlier-in-the-day meal.
You don’t have to remember any particular name. You can just tell them “a medium latte with two pumps of hazelnut syrup” or whatever and they’ll figure it out 
(Applies to most coffee shops… and bars, for that matter. The pre-made drinks/cocktails are just there for fun and marketing, but you can do any standard drink too.)
Dutch Bros (a drive-thru chain popular out west) is even worse for this: Dutch Faves - Where it all began—fan favorites, guaranteed to satisfy. - DutchBros Coffee
Who knows what a cocomo or double torture are? Doesn’t matter, lol. I’ve never ordered off their menu, just asked for an iced oat latte every time (and they’re delicious).
Yeah, I have that same feeling about avocado toast and other simple items, like grilled cheese sandwiches. Why pay $15 for something that would take me $3 and five minutes to make on my own…?
capital letters. who needs them?
lowercase was good enough for e e cummings.
Don’t get me started on case-insensitive filesystems..
(Sorry, complete hijack, should be a different topic if anyone cares).
You do if you want something like a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino. If all I wanted was a latte I don’t need a menu at all.
But at least those are only one or two words. “A medium Kicker, please.” That’s easy. Starbucks would probably call it an Irish Cream Blended Mocha Latte or some other mouthful.
Oh, I’ll start you up, but I agree that it’s the subject of a different thread. But case-sensitive filenames IMO are an abomination unique to Unix-related operating systems, notably including Linux. They serve no purpose whatsoever, and are completely counterproductive when you try to find a file and suddenly realize you’re dealing with one of those backward systems that think that “A” and “a” are completely different letters.
You have it almost backwards. UNIX filesystems treated files as just a container for uninterpreted bytes.
I’m not sure where the case-insensitive idea arose? Might have been CP/M?
Which was arguably stolen (or cloned?) by Gates as the basis for MS-DOS?
But this is totally off topic from the OP theme.
Would a moderator like to split it?
I’ll start a new thread if not…
So does any general OS. But Unix-related operating systems are the ones that annoyingly sort files by case sensitivity.
It’s a techno-cultural thing. Who’s to say whether upper case and lower case are different letters or not just because they have different ASCII codes? I am. 
They are the same letters, except to Unix-loving uber-techies. They have different codes because the English language has both capital and lower case letters that have to be distinctively represented in text encoding, but the distinction serves no purpose in the real world and makes a total hash out of sorting algorithms.
Simply put, the UNIX mentality says “A” and “a” are obviously different letters because they have different ASCII codes. More user-oriented operating systems like Windows say that “A” and “a” are the same letter with respect to sorting filenames, because that’s how an actual human perceives them.
However, note that most references to the word “spam” are to the use of the term to mean unsolicited E-mail (and perhaps also unsolicited telephone calls and unsolicited mail) from sources wishing to sell you something (and perhaps also get you to contribute to a charity).
Below is the Google Ngram for the term “spam”. It really took off in the year 1993:
Wow, exotic foods and file systems in the same thread? No wonder the SDMB’s my favorite forum
As a Wisconsin native, I feel obligated to drive cross-country to my college reunions, so I can arrive with a trunk full of brats and Spotted Cow (a tasty “farmhouse ale” that’s only sold in-state).
By the way, I had a pilsner the other day and remarked “This tastes like every beer my dad let me have a sip of when I was little.” My drinkin’ buddy said “You grew up in the '50s when it was all pilsners,” and he rattled off all the brands we drank back in the day.
So for me, craft beers are on the list of “newer” foods.
Actually, I order it because it’s the cheapest thing on my coffeeshop’s sandwich menu. Well under $5.
Though, really, I should just splurge and get their turkey bacon avocado pesto melt for two bucks more…
Out of curiosity I checked menus around here. One is $5.95; another is $13 but it comes with one egg and a small salad. Third place is $8.95. Wish I had your prices here!
The only time I’ve tried avocado toast was on an airline flight where I was in the first-class section and received it as part of the meal. It was okay but nothing terribly exciting.
Funny, I feel like the microbrewed-IPA trend of the last decade is fizzling out and pilsners are making a comeback, alongside kolschs and rice lagers and other “lighter” beers. And the younger generations don’t drink anymore or something? I dunno.
Oddly Eggs and Things, a breakfast place didnt have it. But good point about breakfast, I havent eaten breakfast at a sit down place in years.
I now remember i did see it once- the Indian Casino I Consulted at had a nice restaurant (and an even nice place just for dinner, never went there). Anyway, we had several meetings there, with the company picking up the check- but when someone else pays, I am usually very conservative/moderate in my ordering. I usually had the Cheeseburger (which was SUPERB!). But I did consider once adding avocado toast, but i was too conservative- after all if I didnt like it, I would have ordered something that someone else paid for that went to waste. That is a nope in my book. Okay maybe I am a little weird in that.
WAY nicer than Fresno. Low crime.
So avocado toast isn’t part of the Santa Clarita Diet?