'Hearty Eaters' Say Buffet Banned Them

Breitbart.com ^ | 6/2/08 | (not provided)

[redstates4ever]

HOUMA, La. (AP) - A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters. A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.

Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.

On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.

"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.

Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he a had a "baby in the belly."

[Moose4]

“YOU BEEN HEAH FOAH HOWAH! You scare mah wife!”

}:-)4

[martin_fierro]

Ricky's not fat.

Just big-boned.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

YOU GO NOW!!

[Old North State]

Summertime, and the living is easy....

Looks like another slow news day in Houma.

[WayneS]

‘Tis not human! ‘Tis a remorseless eating machine!!!

[weegee]

"'Tis no man. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine."

< /Simpsons >

[MediaMole]

I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277

75lbs overweight isn't fat?

[wideawake]

" . . . I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.

Maybe he's 6'9". Or maybe he really is fat.

[weegee]

90 pounds by the BMI index.

[AppyPappy]

“But the sign says All You Can Eat!”
“That’s right. That’s all you can eat. Get out”.

[weegee]

Even if they had posted such a policy on the wall, was the “baby in the belly” comment justified?

[Red_Devil 232]

You mean the same two guys went back to the same restaurant and got the same HASH again?

[stevio]

That was a great episode.

[weegee]

Or in lingo that makes this obvious “I’ve had about enough of your kind here.”

[bamahead]

ping :)

[EggsAckley]

“She says, ‘Y’all fat, and y’all eat too much,’”

I can’t tell you why, but I just can’t stop giggling at that statement.

[AppyPappy]

We had a really good Chinese buffet near my office. One lady would pile up a plate and demand a to-go box. They would point to the “No doggie bag” sign. She would argue with them about it. I found it ironic because she was such a devout Christian but rules didn’t apply to her.

[stevio]

I don’t know if it’s justified, but it’s funny.

[JillValentine]

In the Simpsons’ case, the buffet did proclaim “all you can eat,” which attorney Lionel Hutz used in court to arrange a settlement for his client (Homer). But did this buffet say the same thing?

It’s amazing how close The Simpsons can get to reality.