Don Day: Good friends. Good food. Good brunch.

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  • I’ve always had mixed opinions about brunch. It always seemed a little too haughty taughty to me. I always considered myself more of a Sunday morning sausage, bacon and eggs kind of guy. But when I learned that the term “brunch” was first used back in 1895 (in a publication called Hunter’s Weekly) to describe a Sunday meal for “Saturday-night carousers”, I thought maybe I was the ideal candidate for brunching. Besides, without brunch, there would have been far fewer eggs bennies and mimosas in my life. And they are two of my favorite things, especially when the second is washing down the first.

    Though I think I remember the word from when I was in my teens (probably from a high school English teacher asking the class who can give us an example of a portmanteau), I don’t think I actually did (you don’t eat you do) brunch until I was in my twenties. I was trying to figure out why when I remembered that, growing up in roll up the sidewalksToronto, most restaurants were closed on Sundays and those that were open had to stay dry on The Lord’s Day until maybe the early seventies.

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