Reddit reviews The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure (Exploded Views)

Brunch is so white middle class, someone even wrote a book about it.

Confirmed:

>What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

>Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outré food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In some ways, brunch and other forms of conspicuous consumption have blinded us to ever-more-precarious employment conditions. For award-winning writer and urbanist Shawn Micallef, brunch is a way to look more closely at the nature of work itself and a catalyst for solidarity among the so-called creative class.