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[edit] "The author of this article is a moron and pushing some sort of pro brunch agenda."

Brunch stops at when lunch begins. If brunch happens to run into the afternoon that's one thing, but if you START eating brunch after 12:00pm, you're eating lunch! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.142.5.2 (talk) 17:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] "The British version of brunch could be elevenses."

AIUI brunch and elevenses are two incomparable concepts, the only thing in common being the kind of time of day. Brunch is a full-blown meal, effectively combining breakfast and lunch (as an alternative to having two separate meals). OTOH, elevenses is a snack filling in a bit of the space between breakfast and lunch. So does it really make sense to call either version of the other? -- Smjg 17:42, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Brunch is any sit down meal that occurs between the times of 9:30am - 11:45 am. The food served at Brunch is typically dominated by breakfast foods, but this has nothing to do with the definition of the word. The word comes from BReakfast and lUNCH and by definition only entails a time of day as opposed to type of food.


BRUNCH IS IF YOU COMBINE A BIG BREAKFAST WITH A LUNCH! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.123.196 (talk) 19:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About "Brunch Culture and Marketing"

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The "Brunch Culture and Marketing" section feels kinda POV, and is difficult to understand for anyone not familiar with American pancake culture. Still interesting though, so don't take it out! --Apoc2400 11:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I have to agree here. Pancakes are a sweet (desert) in most English speaking cultures, with the notable exception of north America. I've lived in both cazes is so koolthe UK and Australia, and the only cafes or restaurants where I've seen pancakes served with breakfast / brunch / lunch / etc are those which have an American theme (the type which serve fast food snacks like burgers and "hot dogs"), or pancake outlets like Australia's Pancake Parlour (which also maintains an Americanesque theme). I realise Wikipedia is based in the USA, but I think this article is overly American in its perspective. I suggest the article either explicit clarifies that it is written from an American perspective, or else be re-written. Mark Micallef 05:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Agree totally. It's clearly written from an American POV with no attempt at all to make it sensible or accessible to other English-speakers. Also, it has no wikilinks when I can see several that would make sense. It looks like either a copyvio or a direct (original research?) braindump from an editor. I've tagged for cleanup. -dmmaus 00:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Why not just delete this section entirely? It's full of very specific claims that are not common knowledge, but not cited eiter. Actually, the claims seem pretty dubious to me. They beg for support, but none has been provided. Lack of citation is adequate grounds for deletion. Rohirok 02:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, it was me. I was new here (didn't even have an account yet) and in a hurry when I authored this. The POV criticism of this is a good one. I am working on collecting the citations to fix this. It is also USA centric, which I can also fix. It was inspired by POV, but the facts evidencing the statements are freely available in form of restaurant reviews, menus, discussion board statements, blogs, and cultural commentary... the usual crazy variety of things that comprise Internet sources. Of course by linking to some raw factual information, e.g. a series of menus, this might blur the line on "original research" versus "outside sources." Thoughts on that? --Em dee aitch 09:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I thought your Brunch Marketing section was somewhat amusing, but I don't really think it belongs here. The point seems to be this: In American restuarants, food sold as brunch is more expensive than very similar or identical food sold without the bruch label. If you can document that claim, then it might be a mildly interesting and amusing piece of information for the article. Your elaborations are kinda entertaining (in my American opinion), but I don't think they are very informative, and apparently they are merely baffling to people in some parts of the world.
By the way, here's a funny thing about POV. Even if every single fact is documented and citationed, an article or a section can still be POV. It looks like your intent here is to say, "Ha ha, look how ridiculous brunch purveyors are," and filling in all those citations isn't going to change that. You could probably kill a lot of the POV by heavily editing the section. If you feel like doing so would kinda ruin the whole point of what you've written, that may be a clue that you've added TOO MUCH POV.
(pardon the mess?, this is the first time I've commented on a talk page) I was looking into cleaning up the marketing section a bit, I think I've perhaps axed a bit much, removing most of the flavor (heh) of the previous paragraphs, but perhaps this might be a good footing to expand back from.
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[edit] History of brunch

Cazes is so gay Some Catholic co-workers claim it because it is true. cannot eat before church, so they started having an early lunch immediately after services. --24.249.108.133 17:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Yorkers only get drunk?

I am a little bit confused about why there is such emphisis put on the fact that in New York brunch is often greased filled etc because they go out and drink a lot. This is making a massive stereo type that any other city like London, Berlin, Prague, Chicago, Sydney people don't stay out late and get trashed. Maybe I am knit-picking but I really find it hard to find why it is put under its own section. I am sure every student knows that brekki of a fry up comes at about 11am trying to wake up a bit for the next nights binge, it has nothing to do with New York per-say. You can equally make this argument about any city! Kicken18 16:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I totally agree. Every single statement in this section equally applies to Chicago as well as New York and probably many other cities worldwide. I got rid of all the New York-centric language. 24.136.29.87 (talk) 05:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More Simpsons Brunch Trivia

I think we need even more Simpsons trivia regarding brunch. Say, ten or twelve more examples.72.78.154.193 (talk) 00:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)