{"id":6070,"date":"2017-09-10T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/10\/from-pineapples-to-spaghetti-every-era-has-had-its-own-avocado-toast\/"},"modified":"2017-09-10T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:00:37","slug":"from-pineapples-to-spaghetti-every-era-has-had-its-own-avocado-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"From pineapples to spaghetti \u2013 every era has had its own avocado toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Instagram favourite is just the latest in a line of hip foods, with fondue and celery among its equally fashionable ancestorsThere has been much ado about avocado toast, the eminently Instagrammable breakfast food. Here\u2019s the thing, though: every generation has had their own version of avocado toast. Every era has had an It food that has seized the popular imagination and taken a supersized bite out of people\u2019s wallets. According to a recent article in Taste magazine, for example, \u201ccelery was the avocado toast of the Victorian era\u201d. Yes, celery. That stringy green stuff that doesn\u2019t taste of anything and gets in your teeth. Victorian hipsters spent all their salary on celery, apparently, meaning they couldn\u2019t afford to buy houses or save for retirement. And the Victorians weren\u2019t the only ones throwing good money at bad meals. Here is a short but sweet sampling of the changing tastes of our times. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/shortcuts\/2017\/sep\/10\/pineapples-spaghetti-avocado-toast\" target=\"_blank\">From pineapples to spaghetti \u2013 every era has had its own avocado toast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Instagram favourite is just the latest in a line of hip foods, with fondue and celery among its equally fashionable ancestorsThere has been much ado about avocado toast, the eminently Instagrammable breakfast food. Here\u2019s the thing, though: every generation has had their own version of avocado toast. Every era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}