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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2017-07-24 5:48 PM, wrote:
> On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 3:26:28 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> > wrote in message
>>
>>> I agree. Who the hell cares what is on someone else's plate?
>>> They paid for it and if it bothers you two so much, take a book
>>> with you. Better yet, TALK to your dining companion instead of
>>> monitoring what someone is eating and how much.
>>
>> But it IS the dining companion who is eating the huge amount of food. And
>> *I'm* paying for it.
>>
>>
> Why do I feel like you're lying as always?

Perhaps you are relying too much on past experiences.

> Buffets are one price
> and one price only. Whether they ate one plate or ten plates of
> food the price is the same.

Perhaps what she means is that the operators jack up their prices
because they know that some people will make pigs of themselves.
There is no doubt that some people do. That is why they set them out to
encourage people to go for the cheap filler like salads and pasta salads
on the way to the more expensive meat dishes.

>You were probably offended because
> they chose to eat something that most normal people eat but you
> wanted to get ****y with an 'ewwwwwwwwww' because all you eat is
> fart pellets, aka beans.

I can see some advantages to her family going there. Between their
collective food aversions there should be something that they can eat.

Personally, I avoid all you can eat buffets. I would rather have a small
amount of good food than all I can eat crap. On the rare occasion that I
go to a buffet I skip the cheap filler. I go right past the salads,
pasta, rice and potatoes and search out shrimp, crab and lobster.