”I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more," Salt penned on behalf of ”Middle-Aged Moralisers".
”I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle-aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this?"
”Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house."
His words have caused millennials to spit out their soy flat whites in disgust.
Bernard salt can pry my smashed avocado from my cold dead hands pic.twitter.com/4Pjz8y4aJG
— Simon R (@Rugbysmartarse) October 16, 2016
@BernardSalt is right of course, just give up $22 a week and you'll have a deposit on a median priced house in Sydney in... 175 years.
— Kyle Sheldrick (@K_Sheldrick) October 15, 2016
Skipped smashed avocado for breakfast this morning. Excited to buy a house next week.
— Tony Broderick �� (@brod) October 16, 2016
I hope the state forcefully expropriates bernard salt's house and then beats him to death with avocado
— danyell ghoulan (@dannolan) October 15, 2016
The response has been so great that home lender ME bank has even launched a marketing campaign for its home loans with the words ”Have your smashed avo and eat it too".
@MarkDiStef @BuzzFeedOz giving up your smashed avocado in lieu of a home is not an option!
https://t.co/0hKNkE7wPD pic.twitter.com/qKnLugft4X
— ME (@mebank) October 17, 2016
”I clearly touched the avocado zeitgeist in Australia," a bemused Salt told The Australian this morning.