Eggs Bourgeois

If you give any thought to brunch, you might consider it just another meal around which to while away your weekend.

But, according to Shawn Micallef, Toronto Star columnist, academic and man about town, in joining the herd for this trendy meal you are committing a political act that marks you as insensitive to the social threats and inequalities around us. Instead of being a happy-go-lucky consumer of mimosas and eggs benny, pleased to be imbibing in public before noon, blowing your day’s calorie budget on one meal and hanging out with friends, you are a silly show-off wasting precious creative hours standing in line waiting for a small table in a trendy restaurant, eating food that is gross, unhealthy, uninspired and overpriced. You are a dull sheep following a trend, a bourgeois schmo.

To be clear, Micallef...