AND YET, IS AMERICA EVER GROUND ZERO FOR SOME PANDEMIC?
Posted on 01/27/2020 5:20:07 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Given the women he’s been running with after his divorce, you never know. Like I said, they didn’t break the mold when they made him, they didn’t even make one to begin with. He was built from spare parts. LOL! He makes for an entertaining Thanksgiving guest, to say the least.
Thread winner, now you can include coronavirus.
My wife’s high-school friends occasionally meet (and usually take husbands to) a hotel Buffett brunch that’s about $45+ per head.
One woman has a husband who is about 6’3’ and weighs 250 lbs, so they lose money on him. They make it up though on my wife, who weighs about 108 lbs.
The iron rule of buffet eating is easy and can be stated in one 4 word sentence.
“Salads are for suckers.” I’m just sayin’
Did you say mussels, paisan? As in, sauteed in garlic butter with white wine until the shell pops open? They are so good, I feel like I’m committing a crime eating them. One of our local markets sells them frozen. Our dearly departed Dachshund used to love holding the shell between his paws, and he’d use his tongue like a crabmeat pick and get the meat out every time. He was a seafood junkie.
I do my best to avoid buffets because I feel the obligation to get my money’s worth, but all I can eat is a whole lot more than what I should eat. I only go if someone else is making the choice.
Great place while it lasted. Ate at the Houston restaurant. Decadently good.
John Pinette “all-you-can-eat-buffet”.
A perfect fit.
That was fun!
I had a friend that was somewhere over 350 pounds. We were revered at Japanese restaurants.
“Oh, welcome, Sumo master.”
One November evening we went to an all you can eat fried fish place that made their money on the bar tab. We ate a boat load of cod, but drank a ton of beer. As we were leaving we had a pitcher of beer left and not wanting to waste anything we chugged what was left in our steins.
This was not a Japanese place, just a fried fish place. Popular on a cheap date Friday night; one hundred people in line to get in as we left. Mafia laundromat sort of joint.
We chugged our beers just before leaving and my buddy’s belly foamed up, pressurized with cod and beer, and he laid three heaping lines of fried cod, hush puppies and beer right in the parking lot in front of the waiting line of customers waiting to get in the front door. Right to left. Left to right and back again, steaming in the cool November air, Three lines of yack; Cod, hush puppies and bear in a November night. Gross and fascinating at the same time; steam rising symmetrically from the heaping piles of goo... IT WAS AWESOME!
We went to taco bell and got him right with a couple of burritos after that and went home to regroup. Memorable.
omg — John Pinette, may he RIP. That was one of the funniest routines I ever saw.
YUM!
Is this guy still alive???????????????
I have eaten at each of those.
Are you originally from Indiana or Illinois?
“Shakeys Pizza” - That’s one I haven’t heard in a long time!
That’s cute :) yeah I love them!
Glad to see you’re still with us!
I guess you got better :)
North Dakota. Shakeys was a pizza chain that has been gone for many years.
Now, we need to understand the variety of places that meet the definition of "buffet."
Is a salad bar restaurant like Sweet Tomatoes a buffet? They call themselves a buffet.
At the other extreme, how about a Brazilian churrascaria steakhouse?
I go to both.
I actually stopped going to local Chinese buffets here in Houston because those places are so popular with low income people that the floors and tables have become sticky with spillage.
I haven't been to cafeteria style restaurants (one-pass buffets?) like Luby's or Ponderosa or Golden Corral since my 20s.
I've lately been trying some specialty buffet restaurants like my local Indian buffet, but that's about it, except for Sunday brunch or holiday gourmet buffets at the local resort hotel.
-PJ
Last time in Vegas I started out with 2500, built it up to 3500, then lost it all. Cents. Saw some good comedy and music shows, and we used Vegas as a springboard to go to the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam. Good times.
AND YET, IS AMERICA EVER GROUND ZERO FOR SOME PANDEMIC?
I love going to buffets where they make the food there.
Old Country Buffet, Ryan’s, and Golden Corral all suck now. But I ate at a great KFC Buffet and a wonderful Western Sizzlin’ in Tennessee a few months back.
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