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or the people who sneeze/cough into their hand in the line?

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Zeph's 'I want to eat people' is a classic.

I'd forgotten that one.

His best was the one in which he saved his sister's life by punching her in the stomach so she could poo. That one was mod deleted in about two hours, and I'm so, so sorry I didn't copy it. I literally had tears streaming down my face I was laughing so hard.

I tend to stay away from buffets and AYCE restaurants, primarily because the food sucks, but also because of hygene.

There is one place that I go to every now and then. It's called the Carnivore.

No buffet style here, the joints of meat are brought to your table on skewers, and carved onto your plate. Awesome. 20-odd meat courses, from the standards through to warthog, crocodile, etc. and when you're done, you just start over with your favourites. And when you're done, you just start over with your favourites.

Otherwise, *shudder* My brother is a chef. I've worked in resturants. I know what those bastards are like.

--A

Cail wrote:His best was the one in which he saved his sister's life by punching her in the stomach so she could poo. That one was mod deleted in about two hours, and I'm so, so sorry I didn't copy it. I literally had tears streaming down my face I was laughing so hard.

OMG!!! I"m laughing now myself! LOL

Cail wrote:

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Zeph's 'I want to eat people' is a classic.

I'd forgotten that one.

His best was the one in which he saved his sister's life by punching her in the stomach so she could poo. That one was mod deleted in about two hours, and I'm so, so sorry I didn't copy it. I literally had tears streaming down my face I was laughing so hard.

haha. That's funny. Zeph was funny sometimes. And you should be sorry, hang your head in shame.

I like to browse through his posts from time to time, just for a laugh. I still havent found the "I want to eat people" rant yet, and fear it's been purged.

Buffets are an abomination, whether in a restaurant or at a college dorm cafteria or at a wedding reception or some other social event. The food sucks. And you have no idea how long it has been sitting around, you have no idea whether or not its been kept at the proper temperature, you have no idea what other customers/guests might have done to it (touched it with bathroom hands, sneezed into it, whatever...)

Generally the only way I will eat at an all-you-can-eat restaurant is if the wait staff brings it to you at your table family style, and then brings you more of a certain dish if requested. Generally, that way it seems to be of usual restaurant quality.

Buffets and unsupervised children are also not a good combo. I think kids are great, except when you've got a little bipedal Petri dish walking in front of you down the buffet line, visibly shorter than the sneeze-guard and touching everything they can with their cute little Ebola hands.

I agree with the consensus that buffet food is usually sub-standard. Moreover, I find that buffet food lacks flavor, because it is made en masse for the masses, meaning they never spice it properly.

In my limited experience, buffets are like singles- bars for senior citizens, who are notorious for preferring bland foods, whether for health/diet reasons, or simply that they don't know what tastes good.

And let's face it, if I had to make a metric a$$load of noodles-n-cheese every twelve minutes, I wouldn't worry too much about broadening the flavour palette anyway.

DW

think about this. i have worked in food service some 20 years and my prison is the cleanest kitchen i have worked in.

Actually, our health and safety here in England is the best in the world. Not boosting, simple fact. So we don't generally worry about that.

it is piss poor in America. not enough inspectors for the amount of eateries. a local newscast has a clean kitchen/filthy kitchen report every couple of weeks for houston. and a slime in the ice machine report.

I don't know about it being the best in practice Darth. But I will agree that the laws are strict.

That only helps when they get caught or reported though. Like I said. I've worked in places that make and sell food there.
*shudder*

(And DukkhaWaynhim! Nice to see you round. )

--A

and remember, the usda has an approved rate of fecal matter that can be in meat. yummy!

One of my two Bachelors degrees is in Food Process Engineering, so I have a few gross out factoids of my own, for example, there is also an allowed limit for rat feces and ground up bone matter for hot dogs.
Never, I mean never, purchase hot dogs that list more than two meats on the package. That 99-cent sodium-grenade special pack is not a value for your poor little GI-tract. If meat is your thing, get turkey dogs, get all-beef, preferably kosher.
Or, try not-dogs - if you slather them with condiments, you can almost pretend they're hot dogs.

Or better, just grill yourself a cheesesteak instead.

Avatar wrote:I don't know about it being the best in practice Darth. But I will agree that the laws are strict.

That only helps when they get caught or reported though. Like I said. I've worked in places that make and sell food there.
*shudder*

(And DukkhaWaynhim! Nice to see you round. )

--A

Yeah, only in theory I guess. But generally we're cleaner than most. But you still get the odd resturant that is filthy.

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otherwise known as "coneys", AKA my favorite!

Finding a great buffet is like looking for a diamond in the rough, but when you do--ah!

For instance, I ate at this place called Benjamin's Seafood Buffet, near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This person describes it better than I:

There is no dish that this wonderful buffet lacks! It has everything, from Southern food to the local seafood favorites. There is a carving station that offers steak, prime rib, turkey, ham, roast beef, etc. I loved the pasta bar that offered a variety of pasta that could be combined with chicken or seafood and different spices and sauces. The chef at the pasta bar could cook up any combination imaginable just for you. There was an endless bar of vegetables cooked every way possible. If you weren't too stuffed from all the delicious food, there was a countless number of different sweet desserts! I have tried many buffets at Myrtle Beach, and Original Benjamin's is by far the best on the beach.

All of it true. Cost $24.00 bucks per adult, but they had over 150 seafood items, all of it to die for. Ah, the deviled crab cakes still haunt me! And when I saw the desserts, well, I think they had to pull my jaw off the floor. I think I loaded myself up with three heaping plates, when all was said and done. Definitely popped a few buttons. The only underwhelming thing was the crab legs: very big but not meaty. Still, great place and highly recommended.

for great value go to Central market in Houston. plenty of samples of their huge produce, bread, cheese, coffee depts. and you can get most anything at their deli prepared foods depts. we eat there when we can.

Avatar wrote:There is one place that I go to every now and then. It's called the Carnivore.

No buffet style here, the joints of meat are brought to your table on skewers, and carved onto your plate. Awesome. 20-odd meat courses, from the standards through to warthog, crocodile, etc. and when you're done, you just start over with your favourites. And when you're done, you just start over with your favourites.

Otherwise, *shudder* My brother is a chef. I've worked in resturants. I know what those bastards are like.

--A

OMG!A meat orgy!Any chance you could export this idea to America?

As far as I know, the only other one is in Nairobi, Kenya. It is my favourite resturant though. I don't go often though, the GF is a vegetarian.

--A