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Michael Lin's avatar

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.

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CStitt's avatar

I totally agree that a traditional breakfast food item is a condition of calling the meal brunch.

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Gina Luca's avatar

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.

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CStitt's avatar

Agreed. Eggs mean it’s brunch. Yeah UD definitely has some great definitions. I quote them a lot. Check out my Idioms newsletter. There are a couple good UD definitions there.

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