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> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07:58:20 -0400, Gary > wrote:
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>>Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> >I don't like being surrounded by people with huge portions of food.
>>> >Just
>>> >seeing that kills my appetite.
>>>
>>> I know what you mean. I was at an all-you-can-eat a while ago and I
>>> was so put off by the amounts people were eating, that I mainly dined
>>> on a bottle of chardonnay.

>>
>>Both of you are still babies. I guess you both switched from
>>Pampers to Depends by now since you are both old ppl....whining
>>old people. Why in the world would you look at or even care what
>>others in a restaurant have on their plates? Mind your own damn
>>business. Eat at home not at restaurants with others.
>>
>>This is the dumbest complaint ever on RFC since I've been here.
>>
>>You both wouldn't want to go to a buffet with me. I *indulge* and
>>usually ask for a wheelchair to take me out to my car when I pay
>>the check. LOL heheheh

>
> They are obviously fibbing, putting on air with their snobbishness...
> truth be told the reason they patronize those all you can eat
> emporiums is to show off by out-eating everyone there... people who
> are put off by big eaters wouldn't go there.
>
> Many years ago when driving cross country I pulled into a Golden
> Corral in South Dakota, was the first eatery for a hundred miles...
> mile after mile the billboards said All You Can Eat - $4.99.
> The joint was packed but I was seated at a small corner table. It was
> Lunch time on a Sunday so obviously church must have let out as most
> were wearing their Sunday best bib overalls, even the women. These
> were all over sized people and could they eat. The food was very good
> but mostly I was entertained by the other patrons with butts so large
> I don't know how they fit a John Deere saddle. And even wearing bib
> overalls I could tell some of those Big Beautiful Woman were braless,
> I could see those Elsie look alike Dairy Queens were so buxom they
> couldn't buy OTC bras so rather than paying hundred$ for custom made
> they went without... I enjoyed the show so much that I can't remember
> what I ate but I did enjoy the dessert bar.


I was not talking about a buffet place. I mentioned a steakhouse where they
serve 2 pound steaks. To see someone eating that and getting sick while
eating it is just not something pleasant to me.