I went out for lunch the other day to a great little diner in town. When I looked at the menu the item that caught my attention was an omelet, a veggie omelet to be precise. Yes, a simple veggie omelet for lunch. I hadn’t had an omelet since I don’t know when. Actually I do know when … last time my husband and I travelled to Montreal in the Fall of 2019.
My omelet choice got me thinking about whether eating breakfast items for lunch could or should be called brunch. So I looked it up.
Brunch, a noun, from the Oxford Languages dictionary is defined as “a late morning meal eaten instead of breakfast and lunch.” Hmmm I ate my meal after noon so would that qualify. Don’t know. So I googled again.
The first definition of brunch from the Urban Dictionary is defined as “food eaten whenever the f*ck during the day because the person eating it is fancy as f*ck”. Okaaaaaay.
Although I’m not as “fancy as f*ck” I did eat food “whenever the f*ck during the day” so I’m going with this definition for my lunch out. So I had brunch. I think it fits.
Thanks for reading.
Until the next time.
Breakfast at lunch …
For me, brunch needs to be a meal that replaces the first and second meals of the day. i.e. if you ate breakfast already, the next meal is lunch, regardless of the contents. I also feel that brunch needs to have a traditional breakfast food item like eggs, to qualify. If you just have a burger without an egg on it, it's hard to call that brunch. I also consider dim sum to be -definitely- in the brunch category, if it is it's own thing.
I LOVE that Urban Dictionary definition! I really must get more into the UD. And for me, brunch is anything late morning or the middle of the day that includes eggs lol.