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All You Can Eat!

How many times do you go to All You can Eat Places?

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Hello bluelighters!

My curiosity as usual made me create this thread. I know that most of you are food lovers so let's see how many of you guys go to all you can eat food places and how often you guys go. I usually go twice a month and three times max. Any of you go more than that?
 
I avoid buffets as I will over eat. The only time I will eat at one is at a holiday resort and I walk around first to see everything then decide. I have gone with friends to buffet brunches and will order off the menu. Later I get to listen to how uncomfortably full they are.
 
Ironically I love going to buffet places because I can limit my servings and elect to eat only veggies and meat. I eat out a lot; always at some Asian place because that's really the only option in my area, and they are insane with the serving sizes (even before the rice is factored in). I went to a fish-n-chips place recently thinking I'll just order the cheapest fishsticks and have a light, greasy meal. I walk in and see a fortune cat. Fuck. Ni hao, here's your two half-kilo filets of deep-fried halibut on a bed of french fries. I'm totally not kidding, the plate weighed more than a kilo and that was a considerably cheap meal. I wish they'd start putting out warning signs like at the carnival. You must weight at least 200lbs to consider eating here.
 
I actually went to all you can eat Japanese food last night and I was so bloated lols. Me and my family do it once or twice a month and however I try to avoid it I just can't resist!!! Who resists sashimi, ika karaage, fried tofu, miso soup, goma-e, assorted tempura, and different types of sushi!!!!!
 
Never Knows Best said:
I go willingly when I'm in Vegas, otherwise it's only when someone entices me to one with the promise of a free meal. These sorts of eateries almost always represent a quantity over quality approach, and I feel pretty bad about unhealthily gorging myself on mediocre-or-worse food.
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speaking of Vegas I'm going soon!!! I think it depends where you go though. We always go to a Japanese all you can eat restaurant which is somewhat close to where we live and the food is great! The only thing is you have to make a reservation as it gets packed!
 
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I used to go to a chinese buffet with my family back when I was a little kid, and my stomach would always hurt REALLY bad after. I NEVER go to buffets now. Sometimes I'll go to this pay-by-weight buffet thing by work, but it's all super healthy food, and it's definitely not all you can eat.
 
I'll only do it if I know that the all you can eat will yield more value than if I just did the standard menu order.

A biologist I dated once told me that it takes approximately 20 minutes for your brain to register that your stomach is full, so you have that amount of time to shovel in as much food as you can before eating anymore feels impossible. Avoid water, and large quantities of rice because both will fill you up. (That was probably all I took away from that date because the guy unfortunately turned out to be a total nutjob.)

Most all you can eat places I've been to intentionally delay your order or only serve you cheaper items to preserve their bottom line. I won't do it unless I know the restaurant is fully capable of letting me use their entire menu, and if service is quick.
 
im being honest,is my opinion so dont read it if easily offended

i went to an all you can eat restaurant once,when a bus load of speacial students came in from a local school,,,,i watched them eat from the buffet dropping food back into the bowls,could hear them chewing as they were right behind me,so i heard slurping eating like sloths(yes i know they cant help it) and left so a waste of money and a new knowledge of i cant and wont eat near dribblers8(8(


let the hate begin for not being politically correct:p
 
Foreigner said:
I'll only do it if I know that the all you can eat will yield more value than if I just did the standard menu order.

A biologist I dated once told me that it takes approximately 20 minutes for your brain to register that your stomach is full, so you have that amount of time to shovel in as much food as you can before eating anymore feels impossible. Avoid water, and large quantities of rice because both will fill you up. (That was probably all I took away from that date because the guy unfortunately turned out to be a total nutjob.)

Most all you can eat places I've been to intentionally delay your order or only serve you cheaper items to preserve their bottom line. I won't do it unless I know the restaurant is fully capable of letting me use their entire menu, and if service is quick.
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There are good places around our area, mostly Japanese all you can eat places. Yes there are some places that delay your food and the quality of the food might not be good as well. I guess we were just lucky to find these places that or we are just easy to please with food =D
 
I voted for 1-2x a month, thought it said 1-2x a year. so consider another vote for ~1x a year.
 
Somewhere between 1 time a year and 1-2 times a month (ie, a few times a year), depending on whether friends wanna go.
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I usually find that I'll either leave annoyed at not having gotten my money's worth or extremely uncomfortable from having over-eaten. totally not worthwhile.

ebola
 
ebola? said:
Somewhere between 1 time a year and 1-2 times a month (ie, a few times a year), depending on whether friends wanna go.
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I usually find that I'll either leave annoyed at not having gotten my money's worth or extremely uncomfortable from having over-eaten. totally not worthwhile.

ebola
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I'm the opposite, I have this really amazing feeling whenever I'm so full with delicious food. We always go to Japanese all you can eat places so I don't think it's that bad at all since what we usually order are sashimi and sushi. The guilt won't hit me until the next day when I would usually feel that I put on more calories in my body that I need to work harder again in the gym =D
 
i don't go to a buffet because i want to stuff myself, i go to a buffet when i want a little bit of like thirty different things. isn't that how all non fat people do it?

dont get me wrong it's fun to gorge every now and then, especially after a long day of being active. buffets are good for that too.
 
I don't go to them because I prefer going to a restaurant where the kitchen staff individually prepares each dish.


But if I'm at a buffet & the food is good? I'm goin' ham.
 
Sir Topham Hat said:
i don't go to a buffet because i want to stuff myself, i go to a buffet when i want a little bit of like thirty different things. isn't that how all non fat people do it?
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Yes. What I plan to do and actually end up doing diverges at buffets. :P

ebola
 
My grandparents live in a small town of about 300 - 400 people in the heart of farming/livestock country, and every year the town holds a big party/BBQ to celebrate the year's bounty. Typically this includes lots of fresh produce, home made confections, and lots of alcohol, but the centerpiece of the party is the cooking of a whole cow, snout to tail (separated into different cuts, not roasted whole). Now, the festival usually draws about 100 or so out-of-town relatives and such, but there is typically about 500-600 pounds of beef made into at least 100 different dishes, so needless to say people are encouraged to eat past their capacity (leftovers are donated to food kitchens and other charitable causes). It's just a whole day of booze and beef, and it's glorious.
 
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