To think that brunch is the time period between breakfast and lunch?

[ShirleyPhallus]

I’ve just been invited to a friend’s birthday brunch which is “1-5pm on Sunday the Xth”

THIS IS NOT BRUNCH TIME. Brunch is the period between breakfast and lunch. What is this new trend for misusing the word brunch? Just why? A late lunch is all that’s needed, no need at all to mess with the word brunch.

Yes. This is the hill I choose to die on.

I saw a local restaurant advertising a brunch thing at 1pm too
I'm with you. I mean brunch is literally a combination of breakfast and lunch.

Brunch is a late breakfast or early lunch. A morning meal. 1pm would be pushing it.

Counter offer by inviting her to supper at 8am.

Yanbu the clue is literally in the name. Brunch is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch. Ie after breakfast and before lunch.

Not bloody 3pm. That is firmly late lunch /early tea time.

Your caps made me laugh.

Totally agree brunch is between breakfast and lunch.

Breakfast 7am-10am
Brunch 10am-12pm
Lunch 12pm-2pm
Afternoon tea 2pm-5pm
Dinner 5pm-7pm
Supper 7pm-10pm

That's the rules

Brunch time: 10.30 - midday.

Agreed.

Br(eakfast) + (L)unch = Br + unch = Brunch.

@shouldistop

Breakfast 7am-10am Brunch 10am-12pm Lunch 12pm-2pm Afternoon tea 2pm-5pm Dinner 5pm-7pm Supper 7pm-10pm

That's the rules

Dinner at 5? Get fucked. That’s four year old’s tea time.

Supper is bollocks.

More like late breakfast and early lunch together.

Brunch began as a name for a meal between breakfast and lunch - i.e. a late breakfast/early lunch meal.

But now it can also be used to reflect the types of food being served - i.e. if they'll be serving scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, or other substantial breakfast dishes alongside burger-type lunch options, then that would qualify as typical "brunch" food - even more so with brunch-y cocktails like mimosas or bloody marys.

So if that't the menu for the afternoon party then I think they're within their rights to call it a brunch.

Incidentally I've NEVER known the word to refer to a time period - only the meal. I admit that the meal has a typical timing of late morning but brunch is the name of a meal, not a portion of the day.

Reading that post just makes me nostalgic for the time pre kids when DH and I would stumble out of bed at noon and stroll down for brunch in our local cafe.

The clue is in the name... br (from breakfast) unch (from lunch)

Brunch - late breakfast, early lunch

@hotmeatymilk

Counter offer by inviting her to supper at 8am.

This really tickled me @hotmeatymilk 😂

And yes, what @WoolyMammoth55 says. It's so you're not expecting a roast.

Serving substantial breakfast dishes in the afternoon is also really odd too though!

But now it can also be used to reflect the types of food being served - i.e. if they'll be serving scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, or other substantial breakfast dishes alongside burger-type lunch options, then that would qualify as typical "brunch" food - even more so with brunch-y cocktails like mimosas or bloody marys.

So if that't the menu for the afternoon party then I think they're within their rights to call it a brunch.

Yes this makes sense as a reason to serve "Brunch" (meals). Like saying we're serving breakfast/all day breakfast or lunch or brunch.

Though Brunch has always been a meal between breakfast and lunch.

@WoolyMammoth55

Brunch began as a name for a meal between breakfast and lunch - i.e. a late breakfast/early lunch meal.

But now it can also be used to reflect the types of food being served - i.e. if they'll be serving scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, or other substantial breakfast dishes alongside burger-type lunch options, then that would qualify as typical "brunch" food - even more so with brunch-y cocktails like mimosas or bloody marys.

So if that't the menu for the afternoon party then I think they're within their rights to call it a brunch.

Incidentally I've NEVER known the word to refer to a time period - only the meal. I admit that the meal has a typical timing of late morning but brunch is the name of a meal, not a portion of the day.

I think that's probably fair, and that it's the sense in which it's being used here -- that this meal isn't going to involve a Sunday roast or equivalent (which you might expect given the day and timing), but will consist of typically brunch-type foods.

This drives me mad as well!

Brunch is and always has been a combination of breakfast and lunch!

Just because the alliteration of bottomless and brunch sounds better than bottomless lunch, and restauranteurs are being too lazy to come up with another name for their promotion. Grrrrrrr, it's very annoying AND WRONG

Those timings are stepping into afternoon tea territory.
Sounds like your friends want a fry up in the afternoon.

@FreakinFrankNFurter

This drives me mad as well!

Brunch is and always has been a combination of breakfast and lunch!

Just because the alliteration of bottomless and brunch sounds better than bottomless lunch, and restauranteurs are being too lazy to come up with another name for their promotion. Grrrrrrr, it's very annoying AND WRONG

Yes. Places offering all-day brunches are to blame; delicious but incorrect

YANBU
Brunch is in the morning. Its in the name! A combined breakfast/lunch

If she wanted an afternoon version she ought to be inviting you for Drunch is she does lunch and dinner
or Trunch if she does lunch and tea

There is a new cafe near me that serves brunch type food all day. I love it!! I think the word brunch is evolving and is used to represent the type of food you are eating.
Generally it’s stuff involving avocado, bacon and eggs and posh toast.

Finally got a name for this thanks @Bookworm20. Can't believe I never thought of 'Drunch'. Kept thinking 'LunDin'. 😆

Or Dunch, even.

Lunner.