1971: Eggs Benedict

Crazy to think it, but people were brunching before millennials were brunching. I know, right? Anyway, the art of the Sunday brunch became a real thing in the '70s. "No self-respecting diner would be caught dead eating before 11:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning," according to David Leite of Leite's Culinaria.

Eggs Benedict "became the sine qua non of brunch dishes," writes Merrill Shindler in American Dish. Take a split English muffin, top a toasted slice with Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and Hollandaise sauce, and you've got yourself a classic Eggs Benedict.