Gold-Flecked Avocados Are Coming to Your Supermarket

Earlier this week, we reported on an anti-avocado campaign currently waging in Australia. Hoping to quash the country's avocado obsession, which, apparently, is preventing Millennials from buying houses and making Aussies "an international laughing stock," one advertising agency came up with a video that delivers a stark message to those avo toast-loving 18 to 32-year-olds: "Avocados lead to pretentiousness."

Well, look away now Australia, because a supermarket in the UK has just announced a new range of gold-flecked avocados. If a standard avo makes you pretentious, then this golden boy must turn you into "performance art"-era Shia Labeouf.

On sale in Tesco, "The Gem" avocado has natural gold speckles on its outer skin and according to suppliers Westfalia Fruit, who tested it on an independent panel of tasters, a "creamy, melt-in-the-mouth texture" and nutty aroma. The fruit also has thicker skin than a standard avo, making its flesh easier to scoop out and reducing the risk of "avocado hand"—that occupational hazard of Millennial existence.

While the The Gem's gold flecks are naturally occurring and not, as some might have hoped, the result of an expensive gold-plating job, Tesco says that the fruit is best saved for special occasions.

Andrew Pattison, the supermarket's avocado buyer (an actual job), said in a press statement: "It's not the kind of avocado you will want to mash up and turn into guacamole, but rather show off as a special treat at a dinner party as either an exotic entrée or part of the main dish."

Let's not forget what they say about all that glitters …