It was an australian boomer politician complaining about "fashionable" restaurants that would serve open faced avocado sandwiches and made the absolutely unhinged claim that it was decadence like "buying prepared food" that was responsible for millenials not being able to afford housing. There the avocados are imported and apparently meaningfully more expensive than when they're cheap in the US, but it still wasn't even a particularly expensive prepared food as restaurants go, just perceived as foreign and decadent by one brainpoisoned reactionary weirdo.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure avocados are grown in Australia

Regardless, yeah, it's always the bourgeoisie or petit bourgeois and their defenders whining about avocados. It's very :smuglord: behaviour.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

That's funny, the context I always heard was that they were imported and so cost several dollars per avocado instead of like one or less than one, but it literally being a domestic agricultural product makes it even more unhinged.