What Drove The Internet's Love For Avocado Toast? A Post-Mortem - Chowhound

Nobody can say who first thought to spread avocado on toast, but a lot of origin theories have been proposed. The modern avocado toast trend kicked off in Australia, thanks to a Sydney restaurant called Bill's, which began serving it in the 1990s. A former chef at Bill's later opened the restaurant Sqirl in Los Angeles, which would come to epitomize the high-priced, Instagrammable avocado toast of SoCal.…