To find it annoying when people use the term ‘Brunch’ when it should simply be lunch?!

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It probably shouldn’t bother me but it does!
The term ‘brunch’ seems to have taken over from lunch. Brunch to me is a mix of breakfast/lunch that occurs between 10am-12pm ish, but people keep using it for meals that are quite simply at lunch time (post 12pm). Why can’t they just say ‘let’s meet for lunch’?? Why does it need to be for wanky ‘brunch’ all they time?

I think of brunch as eating breakfast foods closer to lunchtime. Exact time doesn’t matter because it varies according to what time you get up, but if you eat breakfasty things as an early (or normal time) lunch and that’s the first time you’ve eaten that day, well, that’s brunch, isn’t it?

Why does it exercise you so much? If I got annoyed about all the grammar and vocabulary misuses I encounter every day, my eye would be constantly twitching.

I clearly need to chill- my eye is twitching all the time .

It when people go to have this so called ‘brunch’ at lunchtime and eat normal lunch type food that bugs me.

Nah, I’m with you OP. Brunch is 10-11:45am then it becomes a flat out, run of the mill, standard lunch.

It is physically and scientifically impossible to eat eggs benedict at any meal aside from brunch therefore YABVU.

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you are right.

what's the term for eating lunch at 4pm?

Ooooh see the thing is, I always aim for brunch, but it always ends up being at lunchtime. So in my mind I am having brunch.

Also, I think of brunch being a certain type of food/meal. Eggs, pancakes etc. Basically a really indulgent breakfast. Lunch isnt that.

Or perhaps it’s the lunchtime piss up that’s been rebranded as ‘bottomless brunch’ that’s become the most annoying!

Ehhh... who are they hurting?

It’s the food rather than the time imho!
So if I was invited for brunch I’d expect things like eggs, cheese, pastries, bagels, yogurt, fruit, Buck’s Fizz etc.
If going for lunch I’d expect more fish/meat, salads, pasta, wine etc.
Also brunch more informal.

You can't eat brunch after 12 unless you didn't get up until after 12.

Gah, there needs to be a matrix for these things

Late brunch? I think it's more about the food you eat than the time you eat it.

Someone told me about brinner. This is when you have breakfast food at dinner.

It went downhill when people stopped referring to luncheon.

Bottomless brunch makes me cringe. A fry up accompanied by buckets of the cheapest prosecco .
It’s quite the thing at work with the young’uns - I can’t even bear to say the words out loud. So grim.

Brunch is a cringe word for me can’t stand it like lush

Brunch= breakfast foods as your first meal of the day, if it happens from 11 onwards, and is substantial.

Brinner: breakfast items as the evening meal, regardless of the time. Can be as minor as a weetabix, toast and marmite a particular fave, or just a good, honest fry up as dinner.

I always think of brunch as being around 11ish but I suppose anytime up until lunch is fine and I find lunch at 2pm quite realistic. Couldn’t find it in me to get worked up about people calling their lunch brunch though.

Yeah, brunch is defined by the foodstuff as well as the time - eggs, waffles, shakshuka, endless coffee, Bloody Mary, etc.

I’ve never been to a brunch defined as foodstuffs. It’s definitely the time of day. Breakfast food at lunchtime is just “all day breakfast”. I used to go to a champagne brunch once a month when I lived in Asia and we used to have cheese, fish, steak, cocktails, patisserie. I’m not even sure they had “breakfast” food available.

Brunch is breakfast foods at lunchtime especially on the weekend. I love a bit of cinnamon french toast at the weekend and I can't get worked up about it, but I've had wine and can't get worked up about anything at this point.

For me brunch is any meal where you eat eggs after 9am.