I'm not a huge fan. I like the idea of a small menu but brunch at most places tends to be full of the same dishes I'm frankly pretty tired of - omelets, various things with hollandaise, breakfast burritos...

penningtron wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:05 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:28 pm I also very much enjoy the communal aspect of it.

I think I may have more in common with Mike Patton than I realized.

In general I am not a fan of crowds, but enjoy the company of other people, friends (friendly strangers) mostly, especially during meals. I realize that my dislike of crowds doesn't reach levels of agoraphobia and I sympathize with the condition. I just enjoy going out late morning for a delicious breakfast with the neighborhood/your people, so to speak.

I like a late breakfast just fine. While I don't drink during the day, I would never begrudge someone their Bloody Mary. However, I gotta say the crowds of yuppies getting shit-housed on mimosas on Sunday don't appeal to me.

Do the Big Boys suck becuz the Red Hot Chili Peppers stole their identity from them? No

Does an overly complicated egg & potato dish served with coffee and a cocktail with the word "sunrise" or "corpse reviver" in name long after morning but before the day really starts suck becuz people who dress the same as you, frequent the same restaurants (obv) but whom you don't know personally so for some reason their mere existence is an affront to you speak loudly near you while eat it? No

Brunch is not crap.

If we're talkimg about just the meal, yeah, it's fine. It's a meal.

If the social element of going out for it bothers you, or if you're underwhelmed by the menu offerings you'd typically find, put one together at home. Putting together a brunch at home - simple things like eggs, sausage links, toast, and a drinky-poo or two - is fun on a snowy day when you can't get out and there's nothing to do but sit in front of the boob tube. In one instance, I put one together the morning after I got back from England because I did not feel like going out. NC

What? WHAT?!

Brunch is fucking fantastic. I eat only two meals a day, and brunch is one of them. Brunch rocks!

I'd rather have a good breakfast and a proper lunch at appropriate times and not wait until 10:30am to combine them into an overcrowded exercise in patience for two meals worth of food.

I hope the friends I'm meeting feel the same but if not, fine. Let's 'do brunch'. I'll surrender my Sunday afternoon to a bloated food coma.

Crap with a huge pile of heavy waffles.

^ Reading back posts, it's clear that a couple of things are being conflated. Unfortunately, for me, it's now nearly impossible to separate the two.

Brunch as a meal in between breakfast and lunch is just a meal. It's fine.

Brunch as an event at a restaurant, banquet hall, etc. with a buffet, omelette station, carvery board, mimosas, bloody marys, etc. generally sucks. Any time I've been dragged to one in the past and convinced it was going to be great ended up being a horrible disappointment; Mother's Day brunch with small children in tow, especially. Plus there's other people there.

If it's my first meal of the day at home, regardless of time, I'm calling it breakfast and skipping "lunch" if it's late. Brunch is a thing you do at a restaurant that involves breakfast or lunch items and usually a lower alcohol beverage. I guess you don't really have to have the alcohol, but it is strongly associated with brunch.

I keep reading "metal brunch" as the title of this thread. You know there has got to be one.