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Bill Granger, Australian chef who brought avocado toast to the world, dies at 54 (abc7chicago.com)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Bill Granger, the Australian chef, food writer and restaurant owner who brought Aussie-style food to international capitals from London to Seoul, has died. He was 54.

Granger's family said on social media Tuesday that the chef died in a hospital in London on Christmas Day.

"A dedicated husband and father, Bill died peacefully in hospital with his wife Natalie Elliott and three daughters, Edie, Ins and Bunny, at his bedside in their adopted home of London," the family statement said. It gave no further details.

Born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, Granger was a self-taught cook who launched a chef's career over three decades after dropping out of art school. He opened his first restaurant in 1993 in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, where he soon became known for his breakfasts served at a central communal table.

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 73 points 6 months ago

So this is the guy who caused my generation to be unable to afford houses

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[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 63 points 6 months ago

Who?

If anyone bought avo on toast to the world it was that entitled fuck who said to stop buying if we wanted a house.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I never heard if him until this post and I'm Australian

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I didn't even know about avocado toast until it was used as a joke. Then I tried it and holy shit it slaps.

Gimme dat good fats boi!

[-] tastysnacks@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago

Avocados literally grow on trees.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 3 points 6 months ago

Ok?

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago

And money don't, so clearly avocados are better than money.

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago

Thus dies the man who made home ownership impossible for millennials

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

The man who singlehandedly stole all the bootstraps

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

How? Honest question, i have no idea who this is

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Several years ago, some silver spooner said we would be able to buy homes if only we didn’t blow all our money on things like avocado toast.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

I thought it was some nobody but apparently it was TIME Magazine.

Yikes I have given them far more credibility than they have deserved.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Hey hey some clarification required

The chef about avocado and the millionaire about avocado are not the same person

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

Did he really though?

Sliced or mashed avocado has been eaten on some sort of bread, flatbread, or tortilla (often heated or toasted) since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.

According to The Washington Post, chef Bill Granger may have been the first person to put avocado toast on a modern café menu in 1993 in Sydney,[9] although the dish is documented in Brisbane, Australia, as early as 1929

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado_toast

[-] misophist@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Do you deny that there has been a massive growth in the worldwide popularity of "avocado toast" in the past few decades?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Given the rise of the internet given the timeline (Chef since 1993).

There's been a massive growth of everything in popularity except maybe Nu Metal.

Did Strongbad invent comics? Because there's been massive growth since he did it.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think “to the world” in this context means to a larger audience of people who had never heard of it before and didn’t live in a area where it was a common thing. So possibly yes. Or maybe no. Probably a shared effort either way.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.

So how do we know if it's before documented history?

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 12 points 6 months ago

When you try to read the epic of gilgamesh and the first 5 pages describe how to pick ripe avocados smh

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

But that's documented?

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 22 points 6 months ago

The story doesn't really work out? I mean if he started his first restaurant at 24 how could he have launched his chef career 3 decades after dropping out of art school?

Further if art school is supposed to be college level he barely even stayed alive long enough to live three decades post dropping out...

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

I thinks it's bad punctuation or grammar

He launched his three decade chef career after dropping out of Art school

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That makes sense. But that is a really piss poor sentence.

Especially since it's literally "Who launched a chef's career over three decades after dropping out of art school"

That s on decades and "over" kills any ambiguity, but a comma after decades would make it passable, a semi colon and changing to "; after he dropped out of art school" would make it crystal clear.

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[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I hope when I grow up I can one day own an avocado of my very own!

Serving breakfast at one large communal table sounds like a cool idea actually.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The real treasure was the avocados we met along the way.

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Guess its not that healthy

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

Oh it is, but it's an entry level drug. Soon you'll be deep frying snickers and slow cooking an entire pig.

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Isnt deep fried mars bars a thing somewhere i think?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm pretty sure they're mandatory in Scotland.

[-] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Mars bars aren't generally available in the US.

[-] Brekky@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

They are, they're just called milky ways

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's a milky way with a soft caramel layer, also the nougat is a bit different. Honestly they're better battered and deep fried, it's like it's wrapped in a pancake and melted. Maybe a corndog batter is similar - it looks similar - but I've never had one. Anyway you should never eat one because it's not food, it's poison with calories.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, forgot about that! Changed "Midwest fairs" to "Scotland" 😁

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[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well if they eat enough of the fried mars bars, you can then roll them into the sauna and you have slow cooking pig

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

In my state fair you can purchase deep fried butter.

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

How do you deep fry butter… i mean you drop it in the frying oil and poof? Or is it coated in teflon or something?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Freeze it and batter it, it's surprisingly easy.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Coated in batter, and most likely chilled also. Like eating a pancake with a butter center.

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[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Honestly, not the worst thing you can do after dropping out of art school.

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[-] pl_woah@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

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[-] ElBarto@feddit.rocks 2 points 6 months ago

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