Buy a House, Get a Year’s Worth of Free Avocado Toast

If you’re buying a condo in Australia, you may also get free avocado toast for a year. Sign us up. No eye rolls, no irony. Here’s the story.

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One Brisbane, Australia-based real estate agent listed a condo for about $440,000 and included in the cost of sale “12 months free avocado on toast once a weekend at your favorite café”. Sure, why not?

The agent is apparently trolling a columnist in The Australian who wrote:

“I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house.”

The implication being, of course, that if we all just stopped having those crazy avocado on toast and shape up our financial lives, we could buy a house and fix the world.

Eater did the math and found that at two nearby cafes, avocado on toast costs between $12 and $13.50 per plate, which comes out to a value of between $624 and $702 (not including tip). While not bad, that’s not quite enough for a down payment.

Look, avocado toasts should not cost $22, just make them at home. But we live in New York and here (like in most big cities) no amount of homemade avocado toasts is going to equal a mortgage. So while we hear what this columnist was saying, he’s the one causing our eye rolls this morning. As opposed to the millennials he was ranting about. And we’re always good for an eye roll.