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Brunch: all aspects aside from nutritional intake or necessary friend meeting.

Brunch, I hate you so much. Why?

• People just love having brunch!

• If you work full-time, you're taking one of the scant, two days you have "free," and extending a perfectly normal meal that could take a few minutes, or no time at all, into one that last hours, thereby technically wasting your life.

• Brunch is an unnecessary extension of the previous night's social activities. Worse, brunch-talk often consists of the rehashing and analysis of the previous night's activities which are generally about how much alcohol was consumed, and who said what to whom. Does brunch, itself, then need a Linner to cover its own happenings? What about a Bruinner or a Brulinner followed by a Brulinner Midnight Snack?

• Often brunch activities take place while participants are hungover and groggy, inhibiting meaningful conversation and promoting discussion of how good or bad the food is, which is probably a peeve on this site already.

• Because brunch takes so long to happen, one will go hungry until the food is finally served, often at noon.

• "Brunch" sounds like a bad back condition, or a vomiting noise.

• Everyone looks bad in the morning.

• Brunch, or breakfast food in general, has the highest ratio of cost between home preparation and menu price. If you make a damn good omelet with toast at home, it will cost about a dollar twenty-five and take ten minutes to prepare, the same thing will cost you hours and $22 at your favorite restaurant. OH -- but Biffy, no, you've missed something -- it comes with a free bloody mary or mimosa!

• Brunch often comes with fancily-named, watered-down drinks, which, unless you are planning on having a long hardcore, drunken day, will leave you feeling like you have allergies or a cold coming on an hour later.

This being said, brunch's only benefit is when a friend, or friends, are in town, and you can't see them at another time -- then, it's perfect because you want to stretch something out of nothing and spend money as an expression of celebration.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Dining | 11.3.2008 | Comments (0)

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