do you even know what buffet means?

[datasuspect]

it mean all you can eat

not all you can waste.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. is it still considered lurking if one announces that they are, indeed

lurking? is it still considered a PM if one announces that they are, indeed sending a PM?

questions DU style.

[datasuspect]

2. i got new buffet pants

i am the sneeze guard warrior

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. but, do they wash the lemons with soap before they slice and serve

them? that is the question ;)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. thank you. i hate the way food is wasted in this country

it used to make me cry.

[datasuspect]

5. i went to a chinese buffet last week

and although people were taking superhuman portions on each trip, they heroically cleaned each and every plate.

my work was done that day.

[Deja Q]

13. That's a bit of a judgment against all Americans...

I wonder if Europeans waste their food...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. portions in almost all countries are smaller.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. here is a link about portions in europe vs america

http://www.foodpolitics.com/pdf/prtnszobs.pdf

[wain]

25. That's why doggie bags were invented.

.. to take more than your portion and avoid the guilts

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Actually, buffet means you can choose from a variety of foods laid out on a counter

and I believe the term comes from the name of the piece of furniture called a buffet.
It used to be common for restaurant buffets to be one-time-through deals and people still found a way to take too much food.

[datasuspect]

7. no, it mean all you can eat

not all you can waste.

a $50 dollar surcharge for wasting food is the best teacher.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. No, buffet doesn't mean all you can eat. "All you can eat" means that.

Buffet also doesn't mean "all you can waste," or "eat until you're ready to puke" although it appears that some patrons interpret it that way.

[datasuspect]

11. there is a silent underworld of buffet operators from sea to shining sea,

from interstate exit to strip mall outlot that would take exception to your lack of belief.

[Gormy Cuss]

18. They're part of the same group who think it means "all you can waste"

based on the proliferation of said buffet-style joints.

[skater314159]

8. Gee, I thought it meant "free sex, good food, and plentiful weed!"

Damn.

No wonder I haven't found a "buffet" I like yet.

[datasuspect]

9. they have one in Chesterton, off the US 37 bypass

next to the guns, porn, and liquor superstore and across the street from the swanlight motel.

[skater314159]

20. Oh Man! It's my Mecca... or is it Medina?!?! nt

[Deja Q]

12. No arguments here; I loathe it when people waste food.

I don't see it everywhere I go, of course, but there are some who do. I just have to wonder where they think it comes from.

It doesn't rain down from the sky, like how doughnuts don't.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

14. this guy does

[Ptah]

17. The best/oldest bar in Tucson.

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/1999-09-24/bot_spirits4.html

Best Bar To Meet A Nut_TIE

The Buffet

538 E. Ninth St.

311 E. Congress St.


READERS' PICK: Some places just have more life in them than others. If you want an
environment socioengineered by MBAs in the Midwest so as to guarantee nary an eyebrow,
pulse, or off-color thought will be raised in the course of an evening, don't even think
of parking your Camry outside The Buffet.


The oldest bar in Tucson is a steamy, stogie-friendly stewpot where a fern couldn't
survive more than a minute and a half: the atmosphere might be better described as a miasma.
It extends some meters beyond the bar itself; you plunge into it while you're still
a fair distance away. It's the only bar we know of with a corner table (and only one,
as far from the door as possible) permanently dedicated to slumming frat kids spending
their allowance on a bender.


And there's a lot to see for the keen ruffian-spotter. Anyone whose nicotine stains
don't go up to the elbow is apt to be viewed with suspicion, but lose a few games of
pool or shuffleboard for reasonable stakes and you'll be more or less accepted
into the fold. Among our favorite characters here: the Johnny Reb whose anthem is
"Sweet Home Alabama," and for whom the South Will Rise Again; apocalyptic bikers
straight from your favorite nuclear aftermath flick; and pretty much anyone else
whose had a few too many...which is pretty much everyone. If you're not prepared to
participate in the collective insanity, best to take your drinking buddies elsewhere.
This ain't no cocktail lounge. But if your motto is "Drink up, you're behind,"
you'll fit right in at the Buffet counter. They open at 6 a.m. if you need a head start.


Let's see, where do we begin with Club Congress? Walk in on a Friday night and you won't
make it through the lobby without a snaggle-toothed Boo Radley or Haggemeier Deluxe
training you in the sight of his or her love gun. The hippest night spot in town is also,
at times, the Tucson equivalent of the Star Wars cantina. Curious about the guy doing the
"I'm in love with my beer" dance? Want to get to know the know the girl who's arguing
with the newsstand and hitting it with her Cat in the Hat purse?Remember that
snappy candy bar jingle, "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"?
When you visit Congo, it's best if your sentiments lean toward the former.
If they run toward the latter, just keep your eyes on the stage...unless, of course,
there's one of them in the band. In that event we don't know what to tell you.
Just sit back and enjoy the freak show.

[nomorenomore08]

19. It means being wasted again in Margaritaville.

Damn, now where did I put that salt shaker?

[Dr. Strange]

21. Actually...

"all you can eat" is roughly logically equivalent to "all you can waist."

[Robb]

22. I always preferred the southern version

..."All you care to eat." :D

[Cant trust em]

23. Now they're using "all you care to eat"

typically I am able to eat a lot more than I actually want to eat. I could eat half a cow if I really wanted to. I'd probably puke most of it up though.

[x-g.o.p.er]

24. Parrothead?

[femmocrat]

26. I call those places, "belly-up to the trough" restaurants.

Way too much food, IMO.

[PeaceNikki]

27. I just rediscovered an ass-kicking Pet Shop Boys tune.

Check it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qkv7-PguQ-o&feature=related

I had to share that with someone and you seem like a good candidate.