MIL and brunch…

[Nikee20]

We were at in-laws today for a brunch thing. We stayed in a hotel and live 3 hours away and we were eating at theirs before we drove home.

MIL said she’d do sausage buns so we had a very light breakfast so we didn’t fill up.

Arrived at theirs and there were 8 sausages for 4 adults and 1 child.

She split them 1 sausage each in a hot dog bun for each adult, 2 sausages for her son (my DH). Then DC was given another sausage.

Son was then offered the spare one.

So I was fed less than my 8 year old DS.

So my question is - is this perfectly reasonable or is she crazy?

YABU - this is fine
YANBU - she is crazy.

One sausage in a bun is not brunch

Why didn’t you just ask for another sausage? She probably just only had 1 pack and cooked them. I don’t really see the issue, she had 1 sausage also 😂😂😂 this cannay be real

Did you or DH not question the quantity of food?

If this happened with my ILs DH would have made a remark for sure! However he’s never had to as they always put on plenty of food.

That is not brunch, it sounds like she's doling out penis portions though!

I'd be very tempted to ask her to dinner and provide a teaspoon of peas and a fish finger for that abomination.

Brunch is between breakfast and lunch so it wouldn’t be like a meal

I only have one sausage in a bun as a hot dog, so it would be fine for me. I mean that's what a hot dog is isn't it, one sausage in one bun ?

I wouldn’t eat there again.

I bet they expect a slap up meal at yours.

🙄

Not where I’m from! Brunch is a breakfast/lunch combo so is a proper meal as it is designed to be both!

Oh, right

She’s not the sort of person you’d ask for more food from. It’s really weird. She’s slim and probably thinks we need to lose weight 😂

DH wouldn’t even question her, so I wouldn’t either. She’s his mother.

Lesson learnt after today!!

@Timeforabiscuit I like that idea. But she wouldn’t come to visit us.

Here too! I would have had to eat somewhere else after as I don't eat before if invited for brunch. One sausage in a bun is not brunch.

Don't you eat something with that sausage in a bun like a salad or some wedges ?

@AmyDudley it wasn’t a hot dog, just the bun and a sausage.
This was a have a light breakfast (we had 1 dry teacake each) and was basically our lunch as we wouldn’t eat again till 5pm ish.

I understand brunch to be a meal that substitutes both breakfast and lunch, that is eaten late morning or midday. It is therefore more substantial than breakfast.

Typical brunch dishes:

• Buttermilk pancakes with fresh fruit and ice cream
• Eggs Benedict
• Avocado toast with roast tomatoes and chilli flakes
• bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese.

Brunch replaces both breakfast and lunch, so I'd be starving with one sausage in a bun!

@Jevwaypock she’d bought it in specially. I really wish it wasn’t real 😂😂😂

This is hilarious, honestly. You have a funny story about Granny for the years to come. "Remember when Granny tried to starve us all to death..."

She wouldn't visit you? Take the 1 banger and call that a bloody win op!!

I would expect a full fry up for brunch but I wouldn’t make a big deal about it. Were they proper butcher’s sausages or supermarket?

Is she normally stingy with food or does she just not understand the concept of brunch?

Sorry OP I mis-read your initial post and thought you were having a light brekkie with them before brunch, so I didn’t see the issue 😂 But as you were there for brunch I would at least expect a bit of scrambled eggs on the side!

They were supermarket one!!!!

Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch. Not a snack between those meals.

brunch should be amazing - omlettes, bucks fizz, croissants, cinnamon rolls, French toast, eggs Benedict, bacon rolls

we do brunch on Christmas Eve and can’t eat until Christmas Day!

if someone gave me a hotdog for brunch I would cry😂🥂🥂

No it’s not. It’s a combination of breakfast and lunch. Not an extra meal. It’s substantial. It’s not one sausage that’s for certain.