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.

YANBU, brunch is a meal between breakfast and lunch.

Brunch in the afternoon isn't brunch. It's just a late lunch.

You wouldn't say "shall we go for lunch this evening?" if your plans involved eating salad, sandwiches or soup for tea.

I enjoy avocados and salmon bagels for a light tea, am I eating brunch at 7.30pm? Of course not because it's tea time, not between breakfast and lunch.

No no no. Brunch is not the name of a meal it's a time period. That's a bit like saying I have to call breakfast dinner if I choose to have leftovers from the previous night at 9am.
No. Just no.
And while I'm at it.. if it was a category of food items I certainly don't want to be offered porridge at 1pm.

As woollymamoth55 said it’s more the type of food. Eggs Benedict and waffles etc but yeah, I would call it a late lunch.

@Chocoqueen

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

Yeah, bottomless-slightly-too-early-to-be-tea-and-too-late-to-be-dinner just doesn't have the same ring to it as bottomless brunch

My teen insists that Brunch is a big meal of special breakfast foods at any time of day. I think it's because when she was a child I would do 'a brunch' when she had a sleepover or we had overnight guests which was a late cooked breakfast ( full English or kedgeree or whatever). For some reason the connection between time of day and the meal Brunch was lost on her, but the foods are imprinted.
When I see it used for afternoon tea with Prosecco and cooked breakfast foods I just presume that the venue owner has a mental block like my DD!

@shouldistop

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

That's the rules

Breakfast 7am-10am Brunch 10am-12pm Lunch 12pm-3pm Afternoon tea 3pm-6pm Dinner (may be called supper) 7pm-19pm Pre-bed snack 10pm-midnight

There! Sorted that for you.

It should be between breakfast and lunch
wow - I admit I eat too much, but between breakfast and lunch? - I thought it was instead of both.

@ThinWomansBrain

It should be between breakfast and lunch wow - I admit I eat too much, but between breakfast and lunch? - I thought it was instead of both.

Yes, it's instead of breakfast and lunch.

Food between the two is elevenses.

I’d say between 10-1 so it can be in lieu of lunch. Lunch is more formal, brunch isn’t!!
Think it’s more the food than the time now.
It’s my favourite food 😆

I wonder if it's a regional thing

I'm from the East Coast US where brunch is a sacred thing (some think we invented the modern version of it)

There is definitely a time period for brunch, it is not just the type of food. There are plenty of places that serve Eggs Benedict all day, if you have it at 8 pm that is NOT brunch

I would say 10-1ish is the right time frame. Maybe 2ish. And only on a weekend. Nobody goes for Tuesday brunch.

^Dinner 5pm-7pm
Supper 7pm-10pm^

No!
Tea 5pm-7pm
Dinner 7pm-10pm
Supper, only for a light meal because you had a giant late lunch or early tea.

It’s brunch foods. Not actual 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 is not 5 - 7pm

I thought it was just a new name for acceptable day drinking.

Nah, if I’m eating a bowl of cereal at 4pm it ain’t breakfast now is it

Brunch foods doesn't make it brunch, it just means someone is being wanky.

@shouldistop

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

That's the rules

Come on, dinner extends well beyond 7pm, especially when entertaining.

I'd say 5-7 is about right for family dinner if young children are involved which obviously they are on here.

Older children/teens/adults/entertaining I'd add a couple of hours and remove supper.

Meal names do denote an approximate time as well as a broad spectrum of likely foods though - its as nonsensical to claim that there's no time period implied as it is to say that there's no specific types of food implied.

@hotmeatymilk

Counter offer by inviting her to supper at 8am.

@AmazingBouncingFerret

I thought it was just a new name for acceptable day drinking.

A proper lunch can include wine; I've never been offered anything more than a mimosa at a brunch.

We take our brunches very seriously here in Cayman.

Brunch starts at 11.30 and runs until 3pm, at which point most people are wankered on bottomless champagne/gin cocktails etc, but have worked their way through waffles, eggs Benedict, sausages, bacon, roast lamb, beef Wellington, sushi, the pasta station and the dessert room.

If I were hosting a brunch at home, it would start at 10.30

@BillywigSting

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.

This.

What you've been invited to is Lupper.

Brunch is a word that was actually invented, and we know when it was invented, the usage in the invite is much closer to the original inventors definition - and of course words change, usage change, but lots of people use Brunch the same as the creator GUY BERINGER.

Focusing on the timing and not the meal, the social nature and not needing to get up for church is what seems weird to me - do you all have no fun in your lives, is eating simply the function and not the social occasion?

I would have agreed with you but since I've survived a couple of teenagers, I have discovered that a meal called lunch and taken just after getting out of bed for the first time of the day, can take place at 5pm. I suppose breakfast would be an accurate name for it, given that the overnight fast has been broken, but when the consumer is joined by a parent who has already had at least one meal, possibly two, and certainly elevenses, it all gets a bit confusing.

I think I might just call all meals 'food' and be pleased if anyone joins me, even if they are eating something entirely different.