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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:04:36 PM EDT
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I used to love them when I was a teenager and in my 20's, when I could eat like a horse and had no appreciation for quality. At 50, I can't eat enough (or rather, won't, since I am also smarter than I was at 20) to make it worth my money. Most places, I have leftovers anyway. The only buffet I still enjoy is the occasional breakfast buffet. All you can eat bacon is still a good thing in my mind, if done rarely.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:04:52 PM EDT
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Why no pot luck? We have an occasional pot luck at work and I know my coworkers pretty well so I don't worry about it, but I understand the concern. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:09:20 PM EDT
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Worked at a buffet as a teenager. Somehow a Cockroach got into the mac and cheese. Think they throw that shit away? Nope, to the back it goes so that the roach can be scooped out. Stir it up and send it back out!
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:12:38 PM EDT
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You don't know what nasty ass shit people do at home. Dogs clean the dishes? Cat hair everywhere? Cooking in the buff? We have an occasional pot luck at work and I know my coworkers pretty well so I don't worry about it, but I understand the concern. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why no pot luck? We have an occasional pot luck at work and I know my coworkers pretty well so I don't worry about it, but I understand the concern. 
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:16:14 PM EDT
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Then you always have the company pervert who gleefully volunteers to bring in his homemade potato salad. How about no.. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why no pot luck? We have an occasional pot luck at work and I know my coworkers pretty well so I don't worry about it, but I understand the concern.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:29:16 PM EDT
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I do enjoy the occasional breakfast buffet at a nicer place. Breakfast food is best food. But that's about it...Avoid the hog trough types.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:45:52 PM EDT
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Every time I go in one I'm immediately bumped into by a 400 lb land whale that moves like a 400 pound land whale and looks like a 400 pound land whale and smells like a 400 pound land whale. Immediately destroys any semblance of anticipation and appetite. Always think "there but for the number of calories go I". I'm done.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:52:21 PM EDT
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There is a place in town with a decent sunday brunch. I hate being at a spot to grab a plate of food and some asshole is behind me chowing down on crap on his plate trying to make extra room.
Really kinda makes me go WTF at how some people walk around the place. Ke and the girlfriend left there just bewildered by it all. Was Buck Owen's Crystal Palace. Was nice and decent quality but people watching at the place is a bit off putting. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:56:03 PM EDT
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I hate it when they take a bite of something and put it back.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:00:29 PM EDT
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Every few months when I take Mom to UVA hospital we stop at the Wood Grill Buffet. It's not all that bad. I usually just get fried fish/shrimp, hush-puppies, and slaw.
LOL....It turns into a people watching event. It always amazed me that for a place that you can take as many trips for food as you like peeps will pile their plates up like someone is going to take it away from them.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:02:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:07:04 PM EDT
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Anybody with a blanket hatred for buffets has only been to shitty poor people buffets. Check out Caesars or the Bellagio and get back to me. If I had 1 meal left on earth, those two would be in the discussion. It is 2 steps below the Sterling Sunday Brunch at Bally's. The Sterling Brunch is $85.00 and worth every penny. I missed it last trip because I was visiting Zion National Park in Utah. What I hate about buffets is when people put 3 times as much food as they will eat then leave it, since it doesn't cost them any more if they throw it away. If I don't know if I will like something I will put a bit on my plate. Once I sit down to eat if I like it I will go back for more. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 12:31:48 AM EDT
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If I go to a Chinese buffet, I'll usually try to eat healthy. There's a lot of deep-fried entrees, and I usually don't get it. Its a total joke when I see French fries and chicken wings at a Chinese buffet. Its crazy but people will load up their plates with fries and wings and other stuff.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 12:33:58 AM EDT
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Phillips buffet in Baltimore's Inner Harbor is nice. Crab legs, all you can eat. The price keeps out the riff raff. Keeps me out too, I've only been there once.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 12:50:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2017 12:51:21 AM EDT
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Sooo frickin agree with you. Dumb fatasses lollygag and doddle around instead of proceeding through with a purpose.
Gets my damn blood boiling. I'm normally very polite and proper but when I hit the buffet I blaze through the lines and forgo my usually polite "after you" |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 12:57:43 AM EDT
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Just had Indian at a lunch buffet friday. Was friggin awesome.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:04:10 AM EDT
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I agree 100% But actually the only buffet I found to be any good was Chuck-a-Rama in Salt Lake. It's been a few years so I stand corrected if it's gone down hill.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:07:03 AM EDT
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Because some people's kitchens are health hazards as are their food handling skills. And don't forget the crazy cat lady who's dishes also have her pets hair........ |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:11:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:19:15 AM EDT
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Outside a few Chinese Buffets that have earned our trust locally ,and the rebuilt Shoney's 2.0 that reopened with the breakfast buffet at 5am I skip buffets now days now days.
Local Golden Corral NW side of Atlanta killed a few people about 12 years ago, and skip it at all cost. And Ryan's died as a chain apparently out of the blue two years ago, so buffets seem to be dying out mostly. Chinese type buffets get away with it cause take out a basic egg roll is nearly two bucks each. And a dozen crab ragoons is highway robbery. Cheaper to pay the same place 8 bucks for lunch, or 14 bucks for diner to get as much, or a bit more since "Chinese" take out places otherwise charge a premium. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:22:28 AM EDT
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So you don't like buffet's, good for you, don't visit them.
See how simple that is? No support group necessary. It's wonderful. Next..... 
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:35:32 AM EDT
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If I go to a Chinese buffet, I'll usually try to eat healthy. There's a lot of deep-fried entrees, and I usually don't get it. Its a total joke when I see French fries and chicken wings at a Chinese buffet. Its crazy but people will load up their plates with fries and wings and other stuff. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:40:11 AM EDT
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I can't do buffets. I worked at one in college and my god, the horror stories I could tell you.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:43:11 AM EDT
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I'll never go to a buffet unless it's at least a $150+ ticket event. Keeps the riff raff out. No trailer trash, no ghetto goblins, no kids wiping their snot covered hands all over the food, etc.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 1:57:38 AM EDT
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I can't do buffets. I worked at one in college and my god, the horror stories I could tell you. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 2:05:18 AM EDT
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Read this thread earlier today. A poster commented how for the money, a buffet isn't really worth the money because of quantity you will eat vs. price (quality) at another place.
I went to a Chinese buffet today (I didn't know what I wanted to eat, so I figured I had a lot of choices)... Poster was right, I had two plates (not loaded up) for $10 (weekend prices). Went to Vegas last year, I don't think the buffet are a good deal any longer... Yeah the food is good, but unless you can consume a shit ton of food, I can eat at an equal or better place for less. I looked at their prices and went elsewhere. I suppose it is a good deal if you are after seafood, which is god awful expensive in LV. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 2:23:13 AM EDT
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Ill have some of the yella...and dont get cheap on mehttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/464216/maxresdefault-188014.JPG  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 2:28:11 AM EDT
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My excuses to not eat at a buffet.....
The food isn't all that tasty. I can find better places to eat. I can find cheaper places to eat with better food. I'm on a diet. I can't eat enough to make it worth my while. Mind you, that I don't mind the buffet scene in Las Vegas. But we ain't in Vegas now. Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 3:31:16 AM EDT
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I stay at the Bellagio and their buffet is at least 1 step below the Bacchanal at Caesars and The Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan. It is 2 steps below the Sterling Sunday Brunch at Bally's. The Sterling Brunch is $85.00 and worth every penny. I missed it last trip because I was visiting Zion National Park in Utah. What I hate about buffets is when people put 3 times as much food as they will eat then leave it, since it doesn't cost them any more if they throw it away. If I don't know if I will like something I will put a bit on my plate. Once I sit down to eat if I like it I will go back for more. |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:04:09 AM EDT
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Because some people's kitchens are health hazards as are their food handling skills. And don't forget the crazy cat lady who's dishes also have her pets hair........ |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:13:45 AM EDT
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Husband & I don't usually frequent buffets for the very reason that all-you-can-eat is pretty much a joke. One plate and we're full.
IF we do go to a buffet, it's either at an Indian restaurant or Sweet Tomatoes/Soup Plantation because one plate of salad & a couple small cups of soup is all we can handle (and I'm the only one eating salad...hubs doesn't eat veggies). |
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Posted: 4/16/2017 10:13:48 AM EDT
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I don't go to too many buffets.
I don't have much self control when faced with vast quantities of easily available food......so I just avoid those places. |
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Posted: 4/17/2017 8:46:46 AM EDT
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Two things I avoid: Buffets and potluck lunches at work.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:02:18 AM EDT
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People are gross, gross people do gross things, and allow their kids to be even more disgusting.
Nope.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:03:45 AM EDT
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Like going to the ocean and complaining the water is wet.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:05:56 AM EDT
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Sushi buffets only, scro....
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:09:36 AM EDT
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Mostly because of people "Grazing" Grazing: Surfing the bar and eating while walking, not just getting food and sitting down to eat it. Thoughts? The more you pay for it the less likely you are to see people like that in the place. Then again, if it has no waiter and paper napkins then it isnt much of a restaurant. Its more like an eatery/fast food joint. |
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:10:01 AM EDT
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Lemme tell you the best buffet type....
We have an Asian place that has a special "Buffet menu". It has all the food in checklist format and you mark down what you want and how many. For example your order could be 1 Orange Chicken 1 Shrimp Lomein 1 Tuna Roll 1 Salmon Roll 1 Tuna Nigiri (the sushi menu is a little limited on the buffet obviosuly but it has all the basics) 4 Egg rolls 2 orders (6 paces) Wontons And they cook it and bring it out fresh. Finish the food? No problem, fill out another paper, get more. Only downside is, they charge you for uneaten food. But it is fresh! |
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Posted: 4/17/2017 9:14:11 AM EDT
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We had a middle eastern restaurant that was the bomb, "no pun intended". Anyway I served there and had a taste for the cuisine often, most of all Lamb and goats and stuff wrapped in grape leaves. Very common in the region even among Christians, at least the ones the muzzies havnt murdered yet.
So this place was great and then they went buffet. The food was cold, it tasted like shit, and you can tell much of it was 3 days old. Thats the thing about buffets. They have lousy chefs and they never throw anything out so you could be eating last weeks food. The only meal a buffet works for is breakfast cause its very hard to mess up breakfast. Oh and NEVER eat at a Chinese or Indian buffet. Even the dog and pigeon meat is a week old. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:19:38 PM EDT
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Lemme tell you the best buffet type.... We have an Asian place that has a special "Buffet menu". It has all the food in checklist format and you mark down what you want and how many. For example your order could be 1 Orange Chicken 1 Shrimp Lomein 1 Tuna Roll 1 Salmon Roll 1 Tuna Nigiri (the sushi menu is a little limited on the buffet obviosuly but it has all the basics) 4 Egg rolls 2 orders (6 paces) Wontons And they cook it and bring it out fresh. Finish the food? No problem, fill out another paper, get more. Only downside is, they charge you for uneaten food. But it is fresh! |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:26:50 PM EDT
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The only all you can eat place I go to is Mongolian BBQ and they don't really have a grazing problem at those. I seriously don't know how any one can eat more than a plate of the stuff though.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:27:49 PM EDT
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Anybody with a blanket hatred for buffets has only been to shitty poor people buffets. Check out Caesars or the Bellagio and get back to me. If I had 1 meal left on earth, those two would be in the discussion. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:36:17 PM EDT
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I loved buffets when I was a kid. Now that I know about germs and hygiene, not so much.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:38:43 PM EDT
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There's really not much difference between a good buffet and a good restaurant, both will subject your food to people you wish didn't have access to your food.
Only diff with a buffet is you might see it happen. Germophobes generally don't have fun in their lives. Meh, you're still eating gross shit. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:43:04 PM EDT
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So you don't like buffet's, good for you, don't visit them. See how simple that is? No support group necessary. It's wonderful. Next..... See how simple that is? |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:43:10 PM EDT
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Only "buffet" I go to anymore is a Chinese buffet with a Mongolian grill. I ONLY eat food from the grill. It's amazing. They can keep the rest of it.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:47:31 PM EDT
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I just eat too much.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:48:06 PM EDT
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Some are better than others /thread
Casinos and Chinese places are best buffets. That does not mean all of them have good buffets. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 6:49:34 PM EDT
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I had this happened a few times. A group of us goes out for Chinese. One person in the group will always leave when it's NOT A BUFFET. That's even before reading the menu or ask if the food is any good at the place. The same person will always up at red lobster or applebees down the street which is not a buffet. What's the deal with that? The words on a Chinese menu? Mar Far, Won Ton, Holyfuk, sumtingwong? They don't know what any of that shit is, they just want to look at the food in front of them and be like "That looks good, I'll take two. That looks weird, you can keep it." |
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