To campaign for a blanket ban on the word ‘brunch’

[Patienceisvirtuous]

I can’t bear it. Soooo pretentious...

Breakfast, lunch, late breakfast, early lunch - yes.
Brunch - no.

Everytime I see an Insta photo hashtagged brunch I inwardly sigh.

Am I the only one? Are you a bruncher too? If so, shame on you 😄

I think supper has been purloined by the middle classes to mean a casual dinner eg "come round on Tuesday for supper - it'll just be lasagne at the kitchen table" sort of thing.

The really annoying people (if that wasn't annoying enough) are those who call it "sups" (or is it supps?) to truly indicate it's artless casualness and their utter hipness

I thought sups was drinks 😄

No drinks are drinks.

What time would that be Bit? I wouldn't know when to arrive.

AbsolutelyCorking "Brunch is AWFUL. The only people I know who say it are really pretentious. It’s not even a word!"

Of course it's a word. It's in the dictionary and was coined in the late 19th century! en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/brunch

Once I’d been high protein, low carbing for a while, I realised I wasn’t feeling hungry till early afternoon so I now have my first meal of the day between 12 and 2 depending on what I’m doing that day. I call it brunch as I often have traditional breakfast food then, like boiled eggs and toast with grapefruit which I had today. Yum.

Sorry, YABU. Brunch is a thing, and it's excellent - the next best meal after Afternoon Tea, IMHO.

Most lunches also run from 12pm-3pm which I don’t get.... that’s lunch/late lunch.

Brunches*

Those who think brunch is pretentious and/or American - were you not aware of brunch prior to Instagram/social media?

Yes I was aware of brunch. It didn’t bother me until people started using the word to promote their aspirational lifestyle on socmed.

Brunch has been around since forever.

I used to brunch back in the day.

But it has turned into a somewhat ridiculous concept.

socmed

I'm in the Middle East and brunch is A Big Deal here. But weirdly, places serve brunch 12-4 (or 1-4 if they're mean) so really it should be Linner?

Sparkling sups is late. Come at nine.

What's wrong with supper?

Fab Bit. Do I bring a bottle?

Actually 9 is very late for lasagne, I will also bring a bottle of Gaviscon maybe.

I only use it if it's preceded by the word bottomless

Yeah well is sups people are bohemian type. This is Hampstead after all.

I guess sups people don't have to get up at 5am for work.

Why the fuck do people seem to think they can arbitrarily ban words cause they don't like them. Get a grip

Of course they can't ban them, but they are allowed to discuss a wish to ban them in the AIBU topic on MN aren't they?

Have you actually read the thread Princess? Because your comment is not in the spirit of it at all

No, us sups types are either artists, actors, in meeeeedddiaaaaar, or part of the intelligennsia. No nine to five for us sups folk

You could do a quick sups followed by a nightshift perhaps?

Brunch is fantastic. Two meals in one, what's not to love?

Instagram on the other hand is a narcissistic wankfest. No good will ever come of it. That's your problem.

Brunch is AWFUL. The only people I know who say it are really pretentious. It’s not even a word!

Of course its a word. It's pretentious to use words and understand what they are? wtf?