The Chinese have been making spring pancakes since forever, so technically brunch didn't invent them.
Fun fact: Analysis of 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggests early humans made a pancake-like flatbread from cattail starch.
Essentially a lasagna that swapped pasta for aubergine and moved to the Mediterranean, fair play to it.
Fun fact: The béchamel-topped version was invented in the 1920s by a chef trying to Frenchify Greek cooking.