I've heard of "all you can eat" but society now seems to view this as "all you can carry" -- bring a duffel bag and just carry the whole buffet out with you.
We used to live in an actual society. It meant something.
On a reasonably related side issue, I remember fondly as a kid going to the Ponderosa restaurant with the all you can eat salad and dessert bars. The kind of behaviour I’ve read about in recent years as cited by the article makes me wonder if the Ponderosa could or could not make that kind of a comeback.
“We used to live in an actual society. It meant something.”
Indeed we did. And I miss it terribly. I do what I can on a personal level, but my conduct brands me as an anachronism in many settings.
I worked at a five-star resort in Hawaii. Royalty, top pols, and major celebrities stay there.
We watched rich ladies walk the buffet line and “secretly” (they thought) stuff bagels, meat, desserts, etc , into their purses.
And these weren’t actors and actress celebrities. They were next-level wealthier wives of studio owners and execs. If they had five kids, they brought five nannies. THAT rich. Yet they “stole” food.
And they’d have hair-pulling skirmishes over beach chairs. But that’s another story.