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breakfast that drank its way into lunch and bills you accordingly
means A late-morning meal that combines breakfast and lunch, typically eaten on weekends.
from A blend of 'breakfast' and 'lunch,' coined in late-19th-century Britain. The writer Guy Beringer is often credited with popularizing it in an 1895 article, pitching it as a cheerful, social alternative to heavy post-church Sunday dinners — a word as fused as the meal it names.
- origin
- Coined in an 1895 British magazine essay
- economics
- Eggs marked up 300% with the word added
- loophole
- Daytime drinking, socially absolved
- timing
- Exists in legally ambiguous 11am territory
- queue
- People wait 90 minutes for toast
eggs benedict — poached eggs with hollandaise sauce, created at delmonico's restaurant in new york city in the 1860s
bottomless mimosas — unlimited champagne and orange juice cocktails, standard at restaurants like balthazar in manhattan
the london breakfast — full cooked spread with bacon, sausage, beans, tomatoes, and fried bread, served at british hotels and cafes