My stomach hurts, what is it about buffet food that makes me have no self control, it wasn’t even nice but I just keep eating it, anyone else suffer the same?
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But yes, I too am unable to control myself at a buffet. Especially weak around sausage rolls.
The last couple of weddings I went to there were waiters/esses wandering around with amazing things on sticks. Belly Pork, Prawns, sausages, mini roast spuds. I was stuffed before dinner came around. Perhaps that was the idea.
all you can eat asian style, or wedding style?
The former - is all I can eat, and then some more
Never felt so ill as the night spent at the worldwide buffet in a hotel in Suzhou, I'd have just about been OK but free Tsingtao was included with the buffet, 4 pints in they literally had to clear up around me while saying 'buffet finish now!' I literally could not move.
I did wonder if the concept of all you can eat buffet with free lager would work in the UK but then quickly became apparent it'd be a terrible business opportunity as it'd be tactical chunder central with people carrying on to plate up
#metoo I try to avoid them like the plague. I'm just hopeless. Just now I avoid them due to the plague.
Buffet style work lunches were my downfall (in the olden days when we went to offices). I think I have this 1970s guilt of not wanting to leave food behind so I'll try and make sure all of it is eaten.
Dunno, but I just made myself a sort of vaguely Lebanese / Mediterranian "salad" for dinner.
Handful of salad leaves
Tomato
Few sundried tomatoes
5 small falaffels
Dollop of hummus
Some Quinoa
Cucumber in mint yogurt
Halloumi - 4 thin slices)
Fetta - a couple of rows of cubes off the block
shredded Red cabbage - the thinnest slice
Half a pepper
1 grated Carrot
Chilli oil and lemon juice to dress
On some flatbread
Nothing individually. But somehow overflowed a massive bowl and I'm not able to move for the rest of the evening.
And now I cant move.
n.b. I have big hands, that is a huge bowl, the flatbreads are actually mission deli wraps, its not a side plate and some pita.
Highlight of a visit to Vegas were the buffets
That’s how bad vegas is
Scratch, I have pics from a very messy bothy trip BITD.
Your reputation is building
I regard "all you can eat" as a direct challenge to my fragile male ego, so I like to show them who's boss!
Buffets - NEVER HAVE A STARTER 😉
Why stop at a buffet? This pretty much sums up my life in general when it comes to food. Sometimes I disgust myself at how much I can put away and still come back for more.
It really should be my family’s moto, “never refuse free food”.
After years of eating and eating I’m now starting to exert some self control around food. I was brought up with a if it’s on your plate you eat it mentally. Never, ever waste food. It’s genuinely a mental eating disorder for me.
The only way I can do a buffet now is to have one plate and then stop.
Highlight of a visit to Vegas were the buffets
That’s how bad vegas is
Couldn't agree more.
tactical chunder central with people carrying on to plate up
I'm pretty sure they did this in times gone by at banqueting feasts.... or maybe that was the PC version taught in school and it wasn't just the vast amounts of food, but actually food and beer
Why stop at a buffet? This pretty much sums up my life in general when it comes to food. Sometimes I disgust myself at how much I can put away and still come back for more
Amen to that, brother
Cheese boards in particular. It doesn’t matter what volume of cheese you put in front of me, I’m not stopping until it’s finished. The same applies for the red wine accompanying it. Shall I just open another bottle? Oh… go on then? I’ll grab some more crackers while I’m at it…
The solution is to bring back the vomitarium from Roman times; eat as much as you can, pop out to the vomitarium, make yourself throw-up - finger or something else down the throat, clean up, mouth refresh and...good to go again!
I remember having to be carried out of a pizza place that did an all you can eat night.. something like 17 pieces washed down with a few beers.. I think the dough slowly expanded resulting in painful cramps.
The solution is to bring back the vomitarium from Roman times; eat as much as you can, pop out to the vomitarium, make yourself throw-up – finger or something else down the throat, clean up, mouth refresh and…good to go again!
I believe this as a practise is true, but that's not a vomitorium.
A vomitorium is the passage in a theatre or ampitheatre by which the crowd can leave quickly at the end of the show. Quite prosaic.
Why stop at a buffet? This pretty much sums up my life in general when it comes to food. Sometimes I disgust myself at how much I can put away and still come back for more
Amen to that, brother
Sadly me too. I have an unhealthy relationship with food.
Brown buffet ? - no thanks.
A nice mixed, colourful buffet - oh yeah....
Warren Buffett - 💵💵💵
Phoebe Buffet?
I agree with BBShed:
if it’s on your plate you eat it
yup
Never, ever waste food.
with you there
The only way I can do a buffet now is to have one plate and then stop.
same for me
Phoebe Buffet?
I would have no control................
Brown buffet ? – no thanks
Don’t be daft! All the best buffet’s are beige
I eat food to stay alive, so don't belong in this thread. I feel grubby just being here.
Me too!!
I am am terrible, mini Pork pies are my nemesis...
We (my family) have a saying now 'I (Daddy) eat like a pig!'.. I ride lots and am in pretty good shape almost 55 year old, but honestly if I could just cut dowm on my portion size I would be in super, tip-top shape.
I have cut down a lot over the years, and I hardly drink. I just eat like a pig sometimes... and feel sick, dreadful, plus this is getting worse but I still cant stop myself
PS - what the hell is a Phoebe Buffet?
Mark
First rule of buffet?
Start in the middle.
That's where all the good stuff is.
Houns
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Highlight of a visit to Vegas were the buffetsThat’s how bad vegas is
Yep.
The thing with a buffet is, it's something else to do with your face so that you don't have to interact with people you barely know.
Cougar that is a very valid point.
They're not very healthy for vampires seemingly.
Off to a buffet? Do like my lads do, have a starvation day before - especially when Dad's paying.
I took my 3 to the Chinese buffet between Edinburgh & Dalkeith a few years ago, bet they thought that 4 skinny blokes weren't going to harm their profits - guess again.
"Oh, anyway, excuse me, my plate is bereft of the three crisps and a peanut I loaded it with just before you arrived." It's either that or taking up smoking.
I love my friends and miss them terribly. I like people despite my comedy protestations to the contrary so long as they're 'carefully screened'. The rest of the great unwashed, not so much.
I can't use buffets anymore because of the lack of back support.
Its only a buffet if all food groups are brown, including brown sauce and chutney.
I ****ing love a buffet.... i am Northern after all.
Generation X - always told to finish our food because there were people starving in the world and who’s parents could just about remember rationing. So complete pigs at a buffet. I’m always telling my kids they don’t have to eat it all as obesity is the big problem for their generation.
Buffets in the midst of a pandemic, no thanks!
Highlight of a visit to Vegas were the buffets
That’s how bad vegas is
I presume it’s not like Orlando then, where there is more on the floor around the gondolas than actually in them. Was like watching pigs at a trough.
But UK party buffet- can’t get enough sausage rolls.
Generation X – always told to finish our food because there were people starving in the world and who’s parents could just about remember rationing. So complete pigs at a buffet.
Probably quite valid.
Daughter has had some school friends round for her birthday, somehow they ordered a large pizza each, it's been a bit of a pizza buffet Chez Morecash
I can resist everything except temptation
i love a good old fashioned pub based wedding reception buffet.
egg mayo butties
potted beef butties
pork pie
sausage roll
vol au vonts with eith creamy mushroom or prawn mix
chicken drum sticks
i can eat for hours.
I rarely eat a lot at a buffet.
Don't get me wrong I'm greedy,but also lazy. I cba with tiny food even more so if it's on a paper plate and I have to stand up whilst balancing a drink.
Buffets – AlWAYS JUST HAVE STARTERS, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
FTFY 😉
When I worked in Glasgow the choice at lunch was various dire cafes/ sandwich shops ( defo not deli's) or a selection of excellent Indian restaurants all of which did lunch buffets. Don't think I ever did 5 days consecutive, but defo did 4 days in a week.
Basically just sat eating plate after plate of starters washed down with 2 or 3 pints of lager 🙂
I once worked with a very hungry colleague who we nicknamed: Cathy the Buffet Slayer.
I love buffet me.
My favourite is this curry house .
Give it a go if you are in GeordieLand and book your stay at the Premier Inn just beside the restaurant. LOL!
When I worked in Glasgow the choice at lunch was various dire cafes/ sandwich shops ( defo not deli’s) or a selection of excellent Indian restaurants all of which did lunch buffets.
That used to be our 4 man group night out(weekend drinking) at the New Anand Indian restaurant buffet. OK we ordered copious amounts of overpriced Indian larger but i don't think they appreciated us stripping the buffet of everything edible (Except starters). And we strained the meat out the sauce so they had to keep replenishing it. 😆
Once went to a wedding where the reception was champagne and food by Prue Leith. Almost everyone, including the vicar, disgraced themselves.
And we strained the meat out the sauce so they had to keep replenishing it. 😆
Have mercy on them otherwise they will not make enough money to continue offering good buffet, LOL!
We used to go to the Pizza Hut buffet on a School lunchtime and eat a grotesque amount. Can’t remember the amount of slices the record holder ate but it was outrageous and we nearly had to carry him out. Obscene.
Buffets at conferences will be the death of me. First I complain about how small the plates are, then i use it as an excuse to keep going back over an over again. I mean what's the point if you haven't tried everything on offer?
Then i'm miserable because I ate too much. And that was just morning tea.
Next it's lunch time.
Then it's the session before afternoon tea and I know there's cakes coming up, so i'm anxiously looking at the clock hoping I get there before all the best ones are gone. Makes it very hard to concentrate on the presentation... that i'm supposed to be giving.
Last month i was at a conference we had a BBQ buffet as the evening meal. 30 minutes later they bring out dessert. Seven different options. I'm stuffed. But rule #1 you have to try everything. It's embarrassing. But yeah, i blame rations. Even my kids know the story of what their Grandad did with his first wage packet - bought a pound of marzipan, ate it all and threw up.
funny
For lunch I was going to make some sarnies but ended up spending $14 on a chinese "help yourself" buffet. And I did.
Spent the afternoon complaining.
Yes it was bloody nice. (I also had one on Monday)
Lets call it carb loading eh?
First I complain about how small the plates are, then i use it as an excuse to keep going back over an over again.
Easy solution.
We once had the extended family down from Brum for a Saturday night party. We woke Sunday with the kind of hangovers that only an Indian can cure, so we assembled at a curry house in Newton Abbot for their 'all you can eat' lunchtime buffet.
We smashed so much grub that they insisted that we ate too much and tried to get us to pay more.
That's Premier League buffeting.
*We didn't pay extra*
Philpotts caters our company with their most beige buffet offering. It's cold and bland with absolutely zero wow factor. I shall indulge today and massively overeat. I hate myself.
The trick is sample everything in small amount the first round. Then go back for the ones that you prefer in 2nd, 3rd etc rounds. LOL!
Actually smaller plate has an advantage because that's a good excuse to go back for more.
As much as I love a (beige) buffet, I hate the faffing involved. Take a plate and queue while Deidre umms and ahhs about whether to add one or two mini sausage rolls. And what's in these breaded objects she wonders before moving on to occupy herself by taking twelve minutes to add a spoonful of tzatziki to accompany her celery. GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THE SAUSAGE ROLLS, YOU SIMPLE PERSON!!
My favourite Indian used to do an 'All you can eat' Sunday night buffet and it astounded me why some (ie, almost everyone) would go up and pile their plates so high with food. It's an 'all you can eat' - they aren't going to take the food away and surely it's better to take a smaller amount then go back for more (still hot) food rather than ploughing through a rapidly-cooling plate of vegetable bhuna?
My favourite Indian used to do an ‘All you can eat’ Sunday night buffet and it astounded me why some (ie, almost everyone) would go up and pile their plates so high with food. It’s an ‘all you can eat’ – they aren’t going to take the food away and surely it’s better to take a smaller amount then go back for more (still hot) food rather than ploughing through a rapidly-cooling plate of vegetable bhuna?
+1
I remember going to a newly opened Chinese when I lived down south with a big group, they all piled their plates up and then laughed at my 'starter' plate - I then pointed out on the menu the small print regarding "waste will be charged for".
Went to a help yourself Chinese near Manly beach, 'smorsgarsbord'. Two morbidly obese individuals kept gorging themselves up and eating into the profits, my appetite evaporated and I couldn't wait to escape into the street.
My local curry still does such a buffet and it's ok but TBH I can stuff myself silly there for a similar price from the a la carte menu and the food is fresher and better that way.
This could’ve been written about my dad, who grew up the youngest of 7 children in a very poor family during rationing. Right up until he died, he ate fast and ate everything.
