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This Restaurant Banned Avocado from Its Menu for Being Too Basic

“Avocado should complement dishes, and the team behind the restaurant believes it is time to share the limelight with some other culinary stars.”

At this point, avocados are inescapable. You can't throw one of their oversized seeds without hitting something related to the world's most overexposed healthy fat. The internet is littered with slideshows for SEVEN LIT AF AVOCADO TOAST RECIPES, Starbucks has added a $1 packet of avocado spread to its refrigerated section and just yesterday, I had to stop myself from physically assaulting a woman wearing a "Let's Avo-Cuddle" t-shirt. That's why London eatery Firedog should be commended—if not just all-out knighted—for its anti-avocado efforts.

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Firedog, a new Aegean restaurant in the capital city, has instituted a complete avocado ban, excluding the fruit from any appearances on its menu. "Our mission is to reinvigorate the morning dining scene in London, which has done avocado to death, and we're frankly bored of seeing it on every breakfast and brunch menu," George Notley, Firedog's executive head chef, said.

Notley means it, regardless of how popular avocados might be. "People are very shocked when they first hear [about the ban] as avocado is such a popular fruit to have for breakfast, brunch and lunch, but they do quickly forget when they sample the unique menu," Firedog spokesperson Hannah Sollosi told MUNCHES. "Avocado should complement dishes, and the team behind the restaurant believes it is time to share the limelight with some other culinary stars."

Instead of endless variations on underripe fruit, Firedog's all-day breakfast menu features less-ubiquitous Middle Eastern favourites like grilled halloumi, crispy sujuk sausage, and a truly impressive breakfast meze that might buckle your table legs before you finish. (It was inspired by the Su'dan restaurant in Alaçati, a Turkish beach town; now doesn't that sound more exciting than trying to drag a chunk of avocado across a piece of toast?)

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