Posted July 15, 200717 yr I went to this Asian buffet today and well...lets just say everyone in there looked like they go to buffets a lot! Why do we feed into it? I mean... It ended up being 12 bucks after I bought a drink.. plus tip, because its one of those awkward situations where the server doesn't bring your food but she refills your drinks and takes your plates so you feel obligated to tip because you don't know how much they get paid by the hour and you don't want to look like a cheap@ss. Considering the quality of the food isn't that great, and other people are digging into the same food, probably contaminating it, is there really an incentive to go? Whenever I order something somewhere else, whatever I get fills me up anyway. I don't usually eat any more at a buffet than I usually would but I find myself wasting more because I know I have more options available to me at the bar. I started applying economics to the situation. If people are wasting a lot of food, which most people are, it's only going to jack up the price of the buffet to compensate for the wasted food. Either that or the quality of the food is lowered when cooks have to hurry up and prepare it faster. So you're really just left with a false sense of getting a "good deal". Stupid fat Americans.
July 15, 200717 yr Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans! Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas. Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans? Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else. Kim Jong Il: Or else what? Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are. Kim Jong Il: OK, Hans. I'll show you. Stand to your reft. Hans Blix: [Moves to the left] Kim Jong Il: A rittle more. Hans Blix: [Moves to the left again] Kim Jong Il: Good. [Opens up trap, Hans falls in]
July 15, 200717 yr As skinny as I am, I love buffets and have honed my techniques for eating at them down to an art. Rest assured, I have a huge appetite and always get my money’s worth. As far as the sanitaryness (I think I made up a word) goes, they aren’t very sanitary. But I think just about everybody knows that when they go in. It all comes down to asking yourself the question “am I hungry enough to ignore the guy who just scraped the mac & cheese on his already used plate back into the bucket using his own fork.” This type of conduct never deterred me, I simply always have one eye on the buffet at all times so I can spot the new chow as it’s brought out. Before it can be mixed with the old…I pounce!
July 15, 200717 yr Considering the quality of the food isn't that great, and other people are digging into the same food, probably contaminating it, is there really an incentive to go? That is gross and another reason to keep me away from those germ breeding plants...yuck!
July 15, 200717 yr We'll MTS not everyone can afford to eat at chanterelle, bouley, boulud, Lever House or Le Cirque like you. I'm not a fan of buffets myself, because I don't think they are healthy especially those hot/cold bar you find throughout NYC. If you recall last year there was that health scare and many of those places were cited for unsanity conditions and then there was the nut who was spitting into food at many of those places.
July 16, 200717 yr In all seriousness, check out this photo essay: http://www.poyi.org/61/23/webb01.php Pause, reflect, and then join me in continuing to mock fat people.
July 16, 200717 yr "Meanwhile two-thirds of all Americans are overweight, and a third obese. Obesity kills 325,000 people a year in the USA, more than drugs, car accidents, shootings and AIDS combined." OMG...
July 16, 200717 yr I didn't see any drunk people in those pictures! Oh, my friends I myself have been to quite a few all-you-can-eat establishments in my quarter century. When I was younger, I LOVED them! Country Buffet, Ponderosa, Easter brunch...As I got older, however, I grew to resent the fact that I was gnawing on meatless chicken bones like a dog and paying $10 for unlimited plates of macaroni and cheese. My tastes have matured. I now prefer "All-American" restaurants like Applebee's. It's delicious. OK, that part is a bit sarcastic, but I'll admit that when I go out with people, I secretly hope we go some place where I can get some sort of chicken wrap. If we're going to get some fancy food with ingredients I've never heard of, I'd like advance warning so I can research during the afternoon. For example, if people are going to Sushi Rock, I order soup and then demand someone drive me to Taco Bell.
July 16, 200717 yr In all seriousness, check out this photo essay: http://www.poyi.org/61/23/webb01.php Pause, reflect, and then join me in continuing to mock fat people. KOOW, nothing you say surprises me anylonger! If we're going to get some fancy food with ingredients I've never heard of, I'd like advance warning so I can research during the afternoon. For example, if people are going to Sushi Rock, I order soup and then demand someone drive me to Taco Bell. JamieC.... tsk tsk tsk.... Am I going to have to find a new apprentice? 100 Million girls would die for that job. KOOW..thanks for the visuals, between the banger brothers and the butt floss pics, I may not eat again until fall.
July 16, 200717 yr ^I'm quite content with the European model, thank you. More: Study: Many Americans Too Fat To Commit Suicide http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_many_americans_too_fat_to
July 16, 200717 yr ^I'm quite content with the European model, thank you. More: Study: Many Americans Too Fat To Commit Suicide http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_many_americans_too_fat_to the onion studies are the best. I like the Alligator and Drunks one the best though. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48203
July 17, 200717 yr My tastes have matured. I now prefer "All-American" restaurants like Applebee's. It's delicious. OK, that part is a bit sarcastic, but I'll admit that when I go out with people, I secretly hope we go some place where I can get some sort of chicken wrap. If we're going to get some fancy food with ingredients I've never heard of, I'd like advance warning so I can research during the afternoon. For example, if people are going to Sushi Rock, I order soup and then demand someone drive me to Taco Bell. That's not really something to be pround of. Buffets are nasty and that photo essay is just sad. Parents who let that happen should be convicted of child abuse.
July 17, 200717 yr I love buffets! I don't go as often as I like, but I usually try to get my money's worth. It's not uncommon for me to put down three or four platefulls.
July 18, 200717 yr LOL Kingfish. I was busting out laughing. In all seriousness, America is heading down the path of obesity quick. Americans prefer the cheap, convenient nature of food, from fast-food "restaurants" to King Kong buffets to high-fat foods that are convenient and easy to cook. As part of my biking regiment, I've cut out most meat and fat from my food -- as much as I realistically can, and I am slowly switching to a vegetarian meal deal. I haven't made my way to an all vegan meal set yet. The last time I tried this, I failed quickly because I was wholly unprepared for the change -- it's a big step mind you. But by making small, subtle changes -- like cooking fresh vegetables that dominate the meat served -- you can do yourself a lot of good. While a nice, thick chicken would have been my main meal, today it is a heaping of fresh, saluted asparagus served on a bed of rice -- a small side of chicken may be diced on top, but that's all. Obesity Swallowing America By Melissa Tennen, HealthAtoZ writer It's little wonder that we have an obesity epidemic. Food is everywhere - beaming from roadsides, advertised on television, screaming in bright colors from grocery store shelves, glowing in vending machines down the hall from your cubicle. That, coupled with a life of sitting - in cars, at desks, on couches - has set us on the road to an obesity epidemic. Obesity doesn't just make people feel uncomfortable about their appearance. It increases the risk of chronic and deadly conditions such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Obesity may soon overtake tobacco as the number one factor in people's deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts obesity will soon be the number one killer. In 2000, tobacco was linked to 435,000 deaths, or 18 percent, and obesity was close behind at 400,000, or 17 percent. Nearly two out of three adult Americans, 60 percent, are overweight or obese. "Basically, the numbers are pretty bad and getting worse," says Barbara J. Moore, Ph.D., president and CEO of Shape Up America, a nonprofit to encourage people to be more active and promote healthy weight. "I am worried that by the year 2020, half of all children will be overweight. What this means is that people are going to be getting sick as children. These children will remain obese into adulthood. Heart attacks and diabetes will happen when they are 30 instead of when they are 60." Wired for action "We have a mismatch between our genes and environment. Our genetic profile is to eat a lot and be very physically active," says James Hill, Ph.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is a co-founder of America on the Move and author of The Step Diet. America on the Move is a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting people to exercise. "We are in an environment that encourages us to be inactive. While technology is good, it has made us more sedentary. We have even built our cars to hold our food," he says. Losing weight and keeping it off is difficult even if you reduce calories. Of the 3,000 people in the National Weight Control Registry - who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for more than a year, only 9 percent lost weight without exercising, Hill notes. What does a person do? The best strategy to keep people's weight stable is to eat a healthy diet, watch calories and fat, and make exercise a part of daily life. Americans are good at losing weight, but not so good with keeping it off, Hill says. "It seems to be difficult for people to reduce their calorie intake. So when they get used to eating a certain level, it is hard to permanently reduce it," Hill says.
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