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.

The word Brunch is a corruption of breakfast and lunch, and the meal Brunch is one which combines the tea or coffee, marmalade and kindred features of the former institution with the more solid attributes of the latter. It begins between twelve and half-past and consists in the main of fish and one or two meat courses

So the origin of Brunch has it starting between 12 and half past. 1pm is surely a reasonable adjustment, and certainly not a mid morning activity - remember it comes from being too hungover to get up.

(Punch 1895 - repro'd at www.bruncher.com/news/brunch-a-plea/ )

@ShirleyPhallus

You're right. Your friend is full of shit. Who the F is voting YABU?

What if I eat my breakfast at 1pm?

It should be between breakfast and lunch

However, if someone invited me to a bottomless brunch in the afternoon I wouldn’t say no!

Yanbu, it’s clearly a dinch or lunner, not a brunch.

The city I leave in it's pretty standard for restaurants to offer brunch on a Saturday, only brunch is a buffet from 2pm onwards and usually includes as many alcoholic drinks as you like.

I love the idea, but I just can't get beyond the misuse of the term brunch.

I'd call that one a Linner or Lunner (whichever portmanteau you want) as it's more between lunch and dinner (but it's not afternoon tea as that has different connotations).

How can the name of a meal be a time period? Your friend clearly doesn't understand what the word means but neither do you if you think it's a time

I would also die on such a hill.

Bloody infuriating. I would probably have to respond saying " Am assuming you meant start time is 11 as it's brunch?" but I am a passive aggressive nincompoop

It's not quite breakfast, it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of canteloupe at the end.

Definitely Linner.

How can the name of a meal be a time period?
“I’m going on lunch now”; “I’m taking lunch”; “when I’m back from lunch”.

Weird, weird, weird.
Brunch is around 10/11ish.

just have an all day breakfast?

I feel way less guilty at bottomless brunch when it's served in the afternoons...

@Boood

Definitely Linner.

Would be more of a Dea or a Dinea up here (Dinner/Tea)

But then it's just all-day breakfast.

Brunch is my favourite meal.

move over on that hill because I'm dying on it too.

Yes, of course brunch is between breakfast and lunch. The clue is in the name.

This has irritated me nearly as much as people who describe any photograph of themselves as a selfie even though it’s not a selfie because it was clearly taken by someone else and not them…. Waaaargh!!!

Agree. I'd say brunchtime is about 10am–3pm.

but brunch is the name of a meal, not a portion of the day.
This.

Haha, I went out for a 'bottomless brunch' last weekend. The table was booked for 4pm and we are pizza... (bloody lovely though)

It’s been imported from Dubai - the must do thing is to go for brunch on a Friday at a fancy hotel.

It is an AMAZING day out to be fair, endless food options, performers, champagne on tap, cocktails, but it’s definitely not what I consider brunch.

Brunch is where we have all been too lazy to get out of bed and have a warm breakfast in the middle of the morning in my normal life

My brother and SiL often have ‘brinner’ (breakfast food for dinner)