Buffets should be banned!

Dionysus · #1 10-11-2006, 05:10 PM

Ponderosa
Picadilly's
Home Style Buffet

BLAH!

What is the appeal of buffets? Yeah you get a lot of food for cheap. I still don't think they're worth it. The quality is just so bad. The food can be cold, hard, and bland. You see snotty nose kids picking up food and putting in back down. Then there's grandma or grandpa with that hack. THe ponderosa closest to me refuses to put a lot of food out at once, so they can save it up. What's the point of going to a buffet then. Picadilly's is in a class of it's on, but it is still a buffet, and a somewhat expensive one at that!

neosoul · #2 10-11-2006, 09:53 PM

ban buffets? NEVER!!! you kill me.... I love them... that's why I fat. Chinese buffets are the best and Golden Corral... the nearest one to me is in Largo... I can't be going that far to stuff my face but damn now I'm hungry

#3 10-11-2006, 10:00 PM

Ugh. The Golden Corral. When Tulsa was still part of the WAC, we traveled there for a game one year, ate at the Golden Corral and everyone got the shits the next morning. It was really bad.

I never used to be a big fan of Todai, but that all changed last summer. Just ask DolphinChicaDDD. She got us the bowl 'o butta for our crab legs. Most people use dipping saucers...chick got us a whole bowl full. And we still managed to go dancing that night!

DolphinChicaDDD · #4 10-11-2006, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by OTW

I never used to be a big fan of Todai, but that all changed last summer. Just ask DolphinChicaDDD. She got us the bowl 'o butta for our crab legs. Most people use dipping saucers...chick got us a whole bowl full. And we still managed to go dancing that night!

Sometimes you just gotta eat crab legs like they're going out of style. Maybe its because its one of the last things you wanna do before you deploy. Maybes its because you are allergic to shellfish. Maybe its because you need to make sure the "most dangerous job in the world" fishmen's work doesn't go to waste. Or maybe, just maybe, its because you enjoy the look everyone else at the place gives you, when there are like 5 people about about 50,000 crab leg shells.

I think we needed to dance so that our arterories didn't clog on the spot.

ps- YOU'RE MAKING ME MISS HONOLULU!! KNOCK IT OFF

#5 10-11-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD

Sometimes you just gotta eat crab legs like they're going out of style. Maybe its because its one of the last things you wanna do before you deploy. Maybes its because you are allergic to shellfish. Maybe its because you need to make sure the "most dangerous job in the world" fishmen's work doesn't go to waste. Or maybe, just maybe, its because you enjoy the look everyone else at the place gives you, when there are like 5 people about about 50,000 crab leg shells.

I think we needed to dance so that our arterories didn't clog on the spot.

ps- YOU'RE MAKING ME MISS HONOLULU!! KNOCK IT OFF

You forgot -- "Maybe it's because you just love yelling at Chinese waiter boy for taking the plate of crab legs before you managed to finish em all"

and

"Maybe you just love the feeling of cracking a leg open to find a nice chunk of meat and then exclaiming, 'Mmm...I got me a goooood one!' "

ZTAngel · #6 10-12-2006, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by OTW

Ugh. The Golden Corral. When Tulsa was still part of the WAC, we traveled there for a game one year, ate at the Golden Corral and everyone got the shits the next morning. It was really bad.

My camp took us on a fieldtrip one day back when I was 11. We stopped at the Golden Corral for lunch. Later that day, the counselors got to deal with 30 campers who were throwing up and had diarreah. My stomach was in knots for days after eating there.

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Originally Posted by PreppyTriDelta

Explain this- I hate buffets (bad experiences, I guess)....but LOVE the brunch buffets at the Ritz, etc and Indian lunch buffets.

omg...Indian lunch buffets are incredible.

MysticCat · #7 10-12-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ZTAngel

omg...Indian lunch buffets are incredible.

Unless, of course, one doesn't like Indian food (like me).

ufdale · #8 10-12-2006, 02:10 PM

Ugh! Buffets!
I went to a Pizza Hut a while ago and ate in the restaurant where they have a pizza buffet/ salad buffet in the middle. My waiter COULD NOT STAY AWAY from the buffet! He kept double dipping carrot sticks in the dressings and licking his fingers and ugh! So disgusting! We even said something to the manager and then my waiter was still eating right off the buffet later. We could not believe it!

At least get a plate if you're hungry... yuck. He definetly only got a penny for a tip.

whiteandblack · #9 10-11-2006, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by neosoul

ban buffets? NEVER!!! you kill me.... I love them... that's why I fat. Chinese buffets are the best and Golden Corral... the nearest one to me is in Largo... I can't be going that far to stuff my face but damn now I'm hungry

I'm with you. I'm down for the buffet. down here in atlanta we have Ryan's, which is good.

Dionysus · #10 10-11-2006, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by whiteandblack

I'm with you. I'm down for the buffet. down here in atlanta we have Ryan's, which is good.

I forgot to include Ryan's. They suck too.

SapphireSphinx9 · #11 10-11-2006, 11:38 PM

i'm not down with the buffet either... although i do enjoy souplantation on occassion. mmm... yummie!

macallan25 · #12 10-11-2006, 11:39 PM

Cocaine Buffets are OK

#13 10-12-2006, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by SapphireSphinx9

i'm not down with the buffet either... although i do enjoy souplantation on occassion. mmm... yummie!

OH CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love souplantation. By far the best buffet ever!

EE-BO · #14 10-12-2006, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dionysus

I forgot to include Ryan's. They suck too.

Oh man Ryan's sucks. When I was at UGA we would hit those sometimes on road trips. The vegetables are alright, but the meat is where you get in trouble.

I don't much care for buffets either in general though.

As for crab legs- my brother lives in Anchorage. I still have about 30 pounds of giant King Crab claws in my freezer from the last shipment (big ones- 1+ pound claws and 20"+ legs), and that is all the buffet we need from time to time.

Just stick a few on the grill, put a couple of sticks of butter on the stove- and we are set. Gets me through the hard times until mudbugs come back in season around here (always a good excuse for a road trip down to Houma or Morgan City Louisiana.)

Scandia · #15 10-18-2006, 05:19 AM

Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation is AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Most others mentioned here are rather mediocre IMHO.