Food rage

[thirteenbyseven]

Went to a dinner meeting for some presentation. It wasn't fancy, just an Italian place and for the group, they offered a pizza and salad buffet.

My table was close to the buffet line, so I watched it for a while. One pizza tray had two slices left on it.

Guy goes up, takes the serving tool in one hand, grabs a slice with the other, starts to separate the two with the tool. He puts the tool down, then grabs THE OTHER slice, puts THAT one on his plate, leaving the first one he touched at the buffet and walks away.

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

The end.

I'm thinking of this Italian restaurant near Sand Diego Lindbergh airport we occasionally go to when we're down there. Great food but the table manners of some the patrons......

 

[canuck_pa]

Some of the best entertainment in Las Vegas is watching people at a buffet. Watching people pile food on a few plates of food and balancing them back to their table all at the same time. Buffets are not a contest to see how fast you can eat an obscene amount of food.

I remember a number of years ago staying at a resort in Jamaica that included at buffet breakfast. Servers placed the food on your plate so there was no problem of people using their hands. One morning I told one of the servers they had given me too much. The response was but its free. I said but I can't eat that much and I don't want to see if get wasted. To that she asked what I would like, I told her and she want into the kitchen. Came back and said your breakfast will be ready shortly. My breakfast from then on was exactly what I asked for made fresh.

 

[MisterVIP]

I'm thinking of this Italian restaurant near Sand Diego Lindbergh airport we occasionally go to when we're down there. Great food but the table manners of some the patrons......

No, this was further north.

I'm thinking of this Italian restaurant near Sand Diego Lindbergh airport we occasionally go to when we're down there. Great food but the table manners of some the patrons......

No, this place was farther north. And the pizza was really not any better than Little Caesars, if LC had more topping options. They had other items on the menu, but for the group event, it was limited to pizza and salad buffet because it was paid by the organizer.

 

[MisterVIP]

Some of the best entertainment in Las Vegas is watching people at a buffet. Watching people pile food on a few plates of food and balancing them back to their table all at the same time. Buffets are not a contest to see how fast you can eat an obscene amount of food.

I remember a number of years ago staying at a resort in Jamaica that included at buffet breakfast. Servers placed the food on your plate so there was no problem of people using their hands. One morning I told one of the servers they had given me too much. The response was but its free. I said but I can't eat that much and I don't want to see if get wasted. To that she asked what I would like, I told her and she want into the kitchen. Came back and said your breakfast will be ready shortly. My breakfast from then on was exactly what I asked for made fresh.

I stayed a hotel in Manama, Bahrain about 20 years ago. The restaurant was all buffet, all the time, but each station had an attendant who handled all the food for the guests.

 

[thirteenbyseven]

No, this was further north.


No, this place was farther north. And the pizza was really not any better than Little Caesars, if LC had more topping options. They had other items on the menu, but for the group event, it was limited to pizza and salad buffet because it was paid by the organizer.

Well enjoy living in beautiful "Sand" Diego. A majority of the time wife and I go down there it's because of the beaches, hence the nickname "sand."

When Little Caesars is considered to be at the top of the pizza hierarchy it's time to run in the other direction. (lol)

I enjoy this topic. How many here have seen people in buffet lines pile their plates until they resemble a major shield volcano worth of food? And what did those individuals look like?

 

[MisterVIP]

Dammit, I typed further instead of farther. If SK were here, I'd be in trouble.

 

[deleted957600]

No more buffets for MisterVIP.

 

[sizehungry]

Have not done the buffet thing for nearly 20 years , after seeing an asshole at a Sizzlers buffet , pick his nose with gusto , then proceed to handle food , completely ignoring the implements provided . My friend and i just walked out . I am fanatical about hygiene , my abode is littered with bottles of hand sanitizer and disposable paper towels etc .

 

[Scarletbegonia]

Doesn't "BUFFET" stand for Big Ugly Filthy Fuckers Eating Together?

While listening to Magaritaville, on repeat.


(I respect a lot of Jimmy's songwriting but that one....ugh)

 

[MickeyLee]

I forgot to get salt & pepper on my sub.
Life, worth living? Think not.
Ugh... An otherwise perfect sub..... ruined.

 

[MisterVIP]

Fucking.
Noisy.
Eaters.

 

[MisterVIP]

"The sound of other people eating makes me enraged." - Kelly Ripa, May 2018

My hero of the day.

 

[MisterB]

Scenario: Annual family reunion. 10 am or so--about 15 of us looking to eat after late night of many and various libations. Huge-ass breakfast place at the Alabama Gulf Shore's Beach area. You could order from menu or you could get the buffet. After five minutes there, we decided we could and would not eat there. Even as hung over as most of us were.

Why? Cuz the dude managing the buffet would bring out the fresh cooked food to put on the line, take the lid off that food being replaced and place said lid on the floor. Yup. The fucking floor. Four times in five minutes.

Called him out on it. Quietly. Got attitude. Huge attitude.

Spoke to manager. Got more attitude. Told manager we were calling health department. Did, as we were walking out of said restaurant.

Went to same place for next year's reunion. Said restaurant no longer open. Asked bunch of locals at nearby restaurant about closure. Surprise--health code violations.

Found out later that one cousin had recorded it and sent it to the local TV station. She now is known in the family as "Vampire, the Buffet Slayer". J/K, couldn't resist the pun...

So yeah, I've kinda lost my appetite for buffets...

 

[MisterVIP]

Went to an Italian place for take-out. Side salad was in box - what seemed like 1/4 head of lettuce, in one chunk, not separated, with large pieces of tomato and sliced-but-not separated onions. Dafuq? I got take-out because I didn't want to bother with food prep. Got home and had to chop up my salad myself.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Went to an Italian place for take-out. Side salad was in box - what seemed like 1/4 head of lettuce, in one chunk, not separated, with large pieces of tomato and sliced-but-not separated onions. Dafuq? I got take-out because I didn't want to bother with food prep. Got home and had to chop up my salad myself.

That will make me angry every time. Remember when places used to toss salads for you? Now, every ingredient I in a neat pile. This is not salad!

 

[MisterVIP]

That will make me angry every time. Remember when places used to toss salads for you? Now, every ingredient I in a neat pile. This is not salad!

That actually also happened to me at a Mexican restaurant once. Got take out, they put it in a big brown bag, got home, took out so many damn containers - they separated everything and I had to assemble it instead of just opening one container and chowing down.

 

[223790]

I detest the way that people behave at buffets, so I avoid them completely. My wife and I were at a resort in the Dominican Republic which had a buffet that could have fed the Chinese army. My wife went up to get something from the buffet when a fist fight broke out over the food between 2 guys! Thankfully she wasn't near it, but saw it happen. Unfreaking believable that people would start duking it out over a buffet that large. Don't even get me started on the disgusting shit I have seen people do at buffet restaurants. When I go to a restaurant, I prefer to sit at a table and be served. I enjoy civilized dining experiences.

 

[Tight_N_Juicy]

That actually also happened to me at a Mexican restaurant once. Got take out, they put it in a big brown bag, got home, took out so many damn containers - they separated everything and I had to assemble it instead of just opening one container and chowing down.

It's because of the fucking twats who piss and moan when it is assembled for them, because their picky spoiled asses grew up having Mommy and Daddy cater to them like they were fucking royalty.

It's ridiculous.

I served college kids when I was at the coffee shop. Not all of them were like that, but holy fuck, so many spoiled fucks who couldn't figure out how to feed themselves to save their lives at the age of 18-19. It's depressing in a way. Our species is supposed to be so capable and intelligent, but these ADULTS couldn't feed themselves without throwing a tantrum.

 

[1345864]

Went to Burger King awhile back. I seldom eat fast food, but had a hankering for a whopper for some reason. Got my meal, went home and opened the wrapper and my burger was meatless. As in: lettuce, pickles, onions, ketchup, and tomato between buns.

 

[Tight_N_Juicy]

Went to Burger King awhile back. I seldom eat fast food, but had a hankering for a whopper for some reason. Got my meal, went home and opened the wrapper and my burger was meatless. As in: lettuce, pickles, onions, ketchup, and tomato between buns.

That's some BULLSHIT.

I thought it was bad when I once ordered a double and only got one patty...