From the Eggdome.

Pros: bloody Marys, Benedicts, egg as a burger topping, letting people enjoy things
Cons: brioche is a bad burger bun and I think its ascendancy may be brunch-borne

NC

Brunch is an absolute crock of shit. Have breakfast, have lunch. Have elevensies inbetween if you like. But fuck brunch.

'Breakfast' food at any hour of the day: NC.

The urban yuppie experience of overpaying for some clattery diner waffles + weak drinks at 11am on the weekends: C.

biscuitdough wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:30 pm egg as a burger topping

Definitely not just a brunch thing.

biscuitdough wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:30 pm From the Eggdome.

Pros: bloody Marys, Benedicts, egg as a burger topping, letting people enjoy things
Cons: brioche is a bad burger bun and I think its ascendancy may be brunch-borne

NC

Don't forget your Mimosa.

Brunch is the Croissan'wich of meals.

All of the above is perfectly acceptable for breakfast or lunch. Don't order a Bloody Mary after 2pm though, lest you want the whole bar staff talking about how lame you are.

The only reason a restaurant does "brunch" is because COGS goes waaaaay the fuck down.

CRAP

WF:1 for the occasional omelette station that didn't suck.

The meal? Not crap.

Going out to a restaurant for the meal? Crap.

I voted "good meal." It's a good meal - what do you want from me? I also very much enjoy the communal aspect of it. You saw a show the night before or maybe a wild party, and in the morning everyone goes to their preferred eatery for an anus-scallop amuse-bouche.

Good meal!

And I'm sorry but any society that celebrates high tea shouldn't have a problem with brunch.

I like it if there’s a buffet and old people and there’s some sort of salmon/lox option. I hate it if it’s $20 eggs benedict and a roomful of young newby Austinites talking loudly about how they literally can’t even.

Fine in theory. I'm good with a broad menu and an bloody mary.

In practice, brunch is always the biggest fuck-around imaginable, usually involving long lines, exacerbated by your party of 8, exacerbated still more because Neil and Katharine are chronically late people and we can't be seated til all the guests arrive and WHY THE FUCK DID WE INVITE NEIL AND KATHERINE let's just go to Dunkin Donuts next door.

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.