From Unicorns to Avocado Toast, Hipster Fads Jack Up Food Prices... http://ift.tt/2pxJ3Bb Hipsters have been blamed for polarizing trends from jeans to facial hair. Now they’re making it more expensive to enjoy breakfast. Blame it on unicorn toast, whose rapid spike in popularity has contributed to a surge in cream cheese prices. There’s also other fads like avocado toast and exotic coffee drinks that have driven up costs for avocados and vanilla beans. Even cauliflower, a staple in the vegan diets favored by some hipsters, is near a record high. Unicorn toast features bread topped with cream cheese and various food colors or super-food powders swirled in, and Instagram is loving it. Unfortunately, it isn’t the cheapest to recreate as cream cheese prices have risen 31 percent over the past year. It’s even worse with avocados, where a 22-pound box of Hass avocados from the state of Michoacan, Mexico’s biggest producer, now costs more than double what it was a year earlier and is the highest in data going back 19 years. Cauliflower’s rise from vegetable afterthought to darling of the vegan and gluten-free diet has already contributed to a spike in Canada’s consumer prices. In th
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