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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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 63 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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 10 months ago

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

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 10 months ago (1 children)

Avocados literally grow on trees.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thus dies the man who made home ownership impossible for millennials

/s

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

The man who singlehandedly stole all the bootstraps

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (3 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago

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

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Guess its not that healthy

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (2 children)

Isnt deep fried mars bars a thing somewhere i think?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Mars bars aren't generally available in the US.

[–] Brekky@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are, they're just called milky ways

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 months ago

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

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

In my state fair you can purchase deep fried butter.

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 months ago

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

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pl_woah@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

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