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'Hearty Eaters' Say Buffet Banned Them
Breitbart.com ^ | 6/2/08 | (not provided)

Posted on 06/03/2008 12:43:39 PM PDT by redstates4ever

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To: Mr. K

You can’t tell from a picture. Unless you can see the notes from his physician all you are doing is disparaging the fellow.


41 posted on 06/03/2008 1:21:06 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually its eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: Global2010
devout Christian does not exlude her from the sin of gluttony

Go to any church on a weekend when they have a potluck. Regardless of whether they are Adventist (which means vegetarian) or any other Christian denomination, you'll find a lot of gluttony going on.

42 posted on 06/03/2008 1:21:38 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
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To: redstates4ever
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.

They're right. They were. But IIRC as a private business they have every right to do so. OTOH, once having been permitted to enter the business and start eating at the buffet the restaurant had no right to charge them more than the advertised price. But if they want to ban them from eating there overall, that's too bad for them.

But they are equally within their rights to complain and picket and write letters to the editor and attempt to persuade people that this form of discrimination is wrong.

43 posted on 06/03/2008 1:22:30 PM PDT by RonF
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To: Mr. K
Is it me or does he not look so diabled? It galls me when I see perfectly healthy people collecting “Mah disah-bility” get of your fat lazy ass and get a real job

Watch out. There is a good chance you are about to get flamed.

I was caned here for pointing out that "I'm too fat to comfortably walk around the park" is too low a bar to give someone one of those annoying scooters at Disneyworld.

If you are so fat you cannot walk four or five miles in a eight hour period by yourself, stay at the hotel and order room service.

44 posted on 06/03/2008 1:26:55 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Moose4
more likely he's riding high on a big dissability payment and expects to gouge himself as much as he wants....dissabled used to mean you were in a wheelchair ...now it could mean anything from alcoholism to a bad toe....it makes me sick..

if they say "all you can eat"....then thats that....but I go to those places and people are stuffing food on their plates and they never eat it all, it just gets trashed and then they take a new plate up, and this is repeated several times...

maybe its time for those places to limit customers in some way....say three trips thru the line and thats it......

45 posted on 06/03/2008 1:41:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Tamar1973
Asians are pretty blunt sometimes. LOL! That's why I <3 them so much! They are NOT PC!

There's a Chinese buffet restaurant near my home with a gift shop in it. There's a sign next to the gift shop that says, "No children not accompanied by adults. You break it, you buy it!"

I can't help but smile every time I see that sign.
46 posted on 06/03/2008 1:46:07 PM PDT by JamesP81 (George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
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To: weegee
Sign on wall:
Peach Pie with Ice Cream $2.50
All You Can Eat: $5.00

Man walks up to cashier to pay for the dessert, $2.50.
Cashier: "Did you eat a second one?"
Man: "No, one was all I could eat."
Cashier: "That'll be five dollars."

47 posted on 06/03/2008 1:54:36 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: AppyPappy

There is a place in my town that will offer to-go ‘seconds’ but they bill you $4.50 a pound.


48 posted on 06/03/2008 1:55:06 PM PDT by Munson
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To: wideawake
I don't care if its PC or not ....many if not most people on "dissability" are not truely dissabled and could work....I know this from personal acqaintances and from professional experience.......they've pulled down a nice income while sitting on their fat rear ends or traveling at any whim....

I have a relative with ALS and I KNOW there are people that are in desperate need of dissability.

all of this is IMHO.....

go to the Indian casino and take a look at the "dissabled" parking....not a parking "slot" to be had.....and then you see some truely impaired and dissabled people parking way back in the lot....disgusting....

dissability should not be sore knees or back...it shouldn't be anxiety attacks...it shouldn't be alcoholism...it shouldn't be obesity.....it shouldn't be anything that our past generations put up with as normal aches and pains and aggravations or anything that personal changes could eleviate....bad backs and knees for one can be greatly improved by losing weight...and I say that as an honestly not thin person.

49 posted on 06/03/2008 1:56:08 PM PDT by cherry
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To: redstates4ever

We got embarrassed four-ways-to-Sunday when we took some friends to an All You Can Eat Brunch in Florida’s Panhandle.

The menu included cooked shrimp with the shell on. The guy’s wife exclaimed “I LOVE shrimp” and proceeded to load up (HEAPED) her plate SEVEN times. She even told her husband to get a plate for her and he refused, also out of embarrassment..

Next thing you know, the guys replenishing the food bar stopped putting out the shrimp. It’s not that there weren’t other choices, including a made-to-order omelette bar, but this gal just embarrassed all of us.

I left a bigger tip than usual.


50 posted on 06/03/2008 2:06:56 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: gdani
Do they undercharge people who don't each much?

I am betting that for ten that eat very reasonable there is maybe one that gets the money's worth. The restaurant gets more than their profit at a well managed buffet. Maybe the buffet is one of the poorly managed buffets that is barely scraping along and is getting bit on the butt. Those buffets are the ones that are food borne outbreak candidates because they cut corners.

51 posted on 06/03/2008 2:23:43 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: windcliff

ping


52 posted on 06/03/2008 2:25:44 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
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To: Tamar1973
Go to any church on a weekend when they have a potluck. Regardless of whether they are Adventist (which means vegetarian) or any other Christian denomination, you'll find a lot of gluttony going on.

As a little joke, I sing "Yield Not To Temptation" as I load up my plate -- it usually gets a laugh.

53 posted on 06/03/2008 2:42:41 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: redstates4ever

Why did he put up with that abuse? I would have walked out, and said: who needs to eat dog food anyway? Yes, asians especially the Chinese and Koreans that I have run-ins with do have a nasty lack of manners, borders on insufferable rudeness. I do not find this behavior charming or funny, and when they need to dish out with me I will give it right back to them. I complained about this rudeness to my Husband, who is American of Chinese Descent and he grows silent, wonder why?????/Just Asking - seoul62......


54 posted on 06/03/2008 2:43:29 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: vetvetdoug
Do they undercharge people who don't each much?

They should require that you have health insurance before eating at one of those places.

For Mother's Day several years back, I took my family out to lunch at an all-you-can-eat buffet. By about 3am the next morning I had the worst sickness in my entire life and it lasted for several days (i won't go into the gorey details).

Needless to say, after the Emergency Room trip and my portion of the copay; I'll never eat at one of those places again.

55 posted on 06/03/2008 3:16:04 PM PDT by adm5 (Roger That. - MA2 Michael A. Monsoor, USN - Medal of Honor Recipient Posthumously)
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To: redstates4ever
Every time i go to a Buffet in Las Vegas I spend 20 bucks and end up just nibbling on stuff.
I see all that food and suddenly lose my appetite.
weird.
56 posted on 06/03/2008 9:49:48 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: WayneS

It is my personal theory that there is virtually NO situation which occurs in modern American life which has not been addressed, at least peripherally, in a Simpsons episiode.
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The simpson’s corollary to the 6 degrees of separation rule.


57 posted on 06/04/2008 6:23:43 AM PDT by dmz
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To: 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.

No, she wasn't.

58 posted on 06/04/2008 6:30:26 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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