--- title: Avocado Lattes Are a New Food Trend description: Some jokester baristas at a cafe in Australia have invented the "avolatte," and the internet has a lot of feelings about this new drink. canonical: https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-22T21:16:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:52.352Z og:title: Lattes Served in Avocados Have Inevitably Happened og:description: The "avolatte" now exists, thanks to an Australian cafe's joke og:url: https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lattes Served in Avocados Have Inevitably Happened twitter:description: The "avolatte" now exists, thanks to an Australian cafe's joke twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lattes in Avocados Are Inevitably Here to Combine Two Millennial Favorites  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 22, 2017 9:16 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 22, 2017 9:16 PM UTC We have reached the singularity of [peak food trends](http://time.com/4772530/cloud-egg-breakfast-instagram/): the avolatte exists. It’s a latte served inside a (mostly) scooped-out avocado skin and topped off with an artful froth design, of course, and it was pioneered by an Australian café that actually intended to make a satirical point by doubling down on the two millennial-favorite foods. But people are buying in — and shaking their heads. Talk of expensive avocado toast and lattes has been all the rage in Australia lately, following a [searing op-ed in which a millionaire](http://time.com/money/4778942/avocados-millennials-home-buying/) called out millennials for spending too much money on the [trendy chow](http://time.com/4779855/avocado-toast-home-calculator/). So as a joke, one Melbourne café posted a video of the creation of a latte inside the hollowed-out rind of an avocado. “Combing \[sic\] two of Melbourne’s obsessions,” the caption read, adding on a crying-laughing emoji for good measure. But it appealed to customers, and they’ve [actually sold a handful](https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/35595703/joke-avolatte-on-melbourne-cafe-menu/#page1). “It’s literally coffee in a piece of rubbish,” a barista who helped kicked off the [viral excitement](https://twitter.com/search?q=avolatte&src=typd) told an [Australian news outlet](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/21/literally-coffee-piece-rubbish-avocado-lattes-latest-hipster/). And yet. Between [turmeric](http://www.extracrispy.com/culture/2029/the-columbusing-of-turmeric), ginger, [bulletproof](http://www.extracrispy.com/drinks/1171/what-is-bulletproof-coffee-and-is-it-good-for-you), and matcha lattes, is it much of a stretch to imagine the heart-healthy avocado becoming another flavor option for ever-popular coffee drinks? (Maybe just served in something more convenient than the avocado skin.) At least it’s a step up from the radioactive-looking [Unicorn Frappuccino, ](http://time.com/4754989/starbucks-unicorn-frappuccino-trend/) Then again, Merriam Webster has weighed in, and is decidedly _not_ going to be jumping on this bandwagon. Check out some of the other reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/865977801970782208) > [](https://twitter.com/juliabainbridge/status/866711748635762688) > [](https://twitter.com/CarbieWarbie/status/866496165021237248) > [](https://twitter.com/abbycolbyy/status/866751609220591616) Avocado Lattes Are a New Food Trend ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/"},"headline":"Lattes in Avocados Are Inevitably Here to Combine Two Millennial Favorites","datePublished":"2017-05-22T21:16:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:52.352Z","description":"Some jokester baristas at a cafe in Australia have invented the \"avolatte,\" and the internet has a lot of feelings about this new drink.","url":"https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4789145/avocado-latte-australia/","name":"Lattes in Avocados Are Inevitably Here to Combine Two Millennial Favorites"}}]}] ```