Talking about how rubbish the weather is is British. Eating fish and chips on a bench under grey skies in some coastal town or another is very British. Queuing, crumpets, cricket - British, British, British. But what’s the Most British™ thing? The humble cultural phenomenon that is the bottomless brunch.
generation. Even the alcoholic element to bottomless brunches isn’t new: since the dawn of Buck’s Fizz, people have been cheekily trying to get away with boozing prior to the arrival of noon simply by inventing fancy breakfast-adjacent drinks with fancy names.
You’ve got your Mimosas, your Bloody Marys, your Long Island Iced Teas - classics of the genre. That genre being the innately human instinct to drop a serious early morning buzz over poached eggs and avocado. Don’t fight it, it’s in our nature. But more than any other nation’s nature, it’s very powerfully in the British nature in particular.
For the undunked, bottomless brunch is a vehicle for eating breakfast too late and lunch too early whilst also racing the clock to try and drink excessive amounts of cocktails on a relatively empty stomach, usually for the rather heady price of about £30. The whole escapade combines binge-drinking, food, a rush to get value for money, and the taboo.
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