Penguinmerch – Baby Yoda Wu Tang Clan shirt
Buy this shirt: Click here to buy this Penguinmerch – Baby Yoda Wu Tang Clan shirt While I would give anything to magically snap back to pre-COVID society, our new era will undoubtedly call for some reexamination of social norms. I can’t imagine ever getting on a packed subway train again without a mask (or, at least, not for a very long time), and the Baby Yoda Wu Tang Clan shirt and by the same token and idea of staying out until 4 a.m. the way I used to fills me with dread. I hope that some of my crowd anxiety recedes and my joie de vivre returns as the threat of the pandemic lessens. But there are some things I’m more than happy to dispense with forever, and waiting in line (in line! The indignity!) for potatoes and eggs I could have made at home is definitely one of them. I’m far from the first or only person to hate brunch; Anthony Bourdain himself called it “a horrible, cynical way of unloading leftovers and charging three times as much as you ordinarily charge for breakfast,” and many chefs famously work brunch as a last resort. (As a former employee of a seafood restaurant with a weekend brunch special, I can confirm that nothing turns Brooklyn adults into whiny, shrieking toddlers faster than the Baby Yoda Wu Tang Clan shirt and by the same token and idea that they might not get to enjoy their waffles and Bloody Marys at an outdoor table.) There were stories written about brunch hating as early as 2014, as well as 30 Rock jokes about the phenomenon way back in 2012, and I fully acknowledge that detesting brunch—or anything, really—is not a personality. Still, the tentative return of my social calendar is forcing me to restate something I never thought I’d have to say again: I do not want to get up before 11 for a meal. Ever. Especially when the solution is so clear—just do lunch! It’s all the fun and socialization of brunch, minus the rush and table competition and occasional hangover-induced misery. Imagine the promise of a Sunday without brunch: You get up at whatever hour pleases you, pour yourself some coffee and cereal in the privacy of your own home, read the paper, take a shower, and eventually make your way over to your friend’s house or an outdoor restaurant for a U.K.-style Sunday roast. Home: Click here to visit our store: Penguinmerch
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