Thursday, May 12, 2016

Buffet Sign

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22 comments:

Trooper York said...

Wow. Scolding and demanding people do what they want them to do. Trying to control people. I bet they will even tell them what words to use on their customer evaluation forms.

Does that remind you of anyone?

john said...

I guess you read that before you go through the buffet line, not after. I would take less, because I would have lost my appetite.

Something about the word "wastage" that makes it seem so industrial. How much scrap metal and cardboard in that wastage, anyway?

Tata, all.

The Dude said...

If the measure is kilograms then it is foreigners, and who cares what they do? Heck, if they were Biafrans then 45kg would feed about a million on of 'em.

I'm not saying they are skinny, but they use string for shade.

Trooper York said...

Food wastage is a problem. In New York City there is a program where excess food from restaurants is donated to the homeless shelters. Of course Bloomberg stopped that because there was too much salt and fat in it. Imagine that.

I think what they are referring to is food left over on plates that they are certainly not going to regift as it were. Buffets lead to waste. People don't care about waste if they are not specifically paying for it. Their eyes are always bigger than their stomach thats for sure. You need to eat modestly at a buffet so you don't get sick or waste a lot of food.

William said...

It's been my sad experience that there is not much worth eating at an all you can eat buffet. That's annoying, but what's really embittering are the small portions in expensive restaurants.

AllenS said...

I used to go to buffets. Never left anything on my plate. First of all, skip the crap, like salads, and only take meat, fish, chicken, or mystery meat. Au gratin potatoes are ok. Once you're full, think about the people in the world starving. Then try to stuff some more food into your mouth.

The Dude said...

I have been looking through my tree books for two days, and still don't know what kind of tree that was that Lem posted yesterday. Right now I am going with guava, just because I am tired of looking.

AllenS said...

My tree book is -- Trees of the Northern States and Canada. No help.

The Dude said...

I have a number of books - east coast, west coast, trees of North Carolina, field guides of all sorts, and on and on. They all break down the identification process differently, and the one I was just using was based on locale - where does any given species live. South Florida is different than the rest of the US. For one thing, Cuban mahogany grows there - that alone makes it a good place to have a chainsaw after a hurricane, which they also have, upon occasion.

Methadras said...

AllenS said...

I used to go to buffets. Never left anything on my plate. First of all, skip the crap, like salads, and only take meat, fish, chicken, or mystery meat. Au gratin potatoes are ok. Once you're full, think about the people in the world starving. Then try to stuff some more food into your mouth.


I don't give two shits about starving people anywhere else. Why? Because it's their fault really. They live in 8th world fuck holes that put them in that position to begin with. Not my problem, do not care. nom nom nom.

ricpic said...

Let's face it, the world is impossible. Why I eat almost exclusively at home. Eat all of whatever I make, no waste. Something occasionally spoils in the fridge, throw it out. Here's how impossible the world is: I'm in the library and there are these checkout machines. So I push all the right buttons and get all the books scanned and at the end of the process the machine won't issue me a receipt. So I go to the checkout line and tell them what happened and they say we can issue you a receipt but it will also include the books you previously took out and returned today. I know what's going to happen: a few weeks from now I'll get an automated call from the library telling me I did NOT return the books I returned today because the friggin checkout machine conflated the books I returned with the books I took out. I KNOW this is going to happen. But I can't even get the start of that thought out to the librarian in front of me because she's one of those talking machine librarians who tells me it's no problem and everything's smooth as silk before I'm into a full sentence. So I give up. And come home. My stomach's beginning to rumble.

Trooper York said...

Ric I eat almost exclusively at home now too. I love to go to restaurants as you know. But our dietary restrictions are such that there are very few places we can go. So I concentrate on good food prepared at home.

I was just over my mother in laws house. I immediately went into the fridge to see what I could cook. The cupboard was bare. Well there were a lot of frozen stuff so I improvised a Greek style dish. I made onion and spinach with black olives and feta cheese and lemon. Added some grilled chicken. It was easy and tasty. You can generally cobble together something if you try.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Wastage was first introduced after the death of the first award winner Shakeperian actor Roberto Bartolommeo. He was so greatly missed, about his replacement it was said... What a wastage 😉

ndspinelli said...

Meth, I saw Sam Kinnison is concert. One of his bits was a hilarious rant about people living in the "FUCKING DESERT AND NOT UNDERSTANDING WHY THEY ARE STARVING. IT'S SAND YOU STUPID, IGNORANT, WORTHLESS, MOTHERFUCKER. SAND. SAND!! YOU CAN'T GROW ANYTHING IN SAND. LIVESTOCK CAN'T GRAZE ON SAND. YOU DESERVE TO DIE!!!

ampersand said...

I wonder if any Chinese children are reminded to clean their plate, because there are women starving in Beverly Hills

ndspinelli said...

LOL. They couldn't save Karen Carpenter and Brittany Murphy.

The Dude said...

Chinese children don't have plates, they have bowls. Rice bowls. And chop sticks.

Trooper York said...

Don't say rice bowls. That's played out.

The Dude said...

Tell me about it. Better yet, tell those billion heathens!

Trooper York said...

Trump just tweeted that we should not use "rice bowl." Since he is my Supreme Leader and Deity I will of course slavishly follow his dictates.

From this point forward we will use "Taco bowl."

They make the best ones in the world at the "Trump Tower Grill."

Oh and one more thing. We love Mexicans.

ndspinelli said...

On Sunday in the mess hall @ Leavenworth it was fried egg day. It was a big deal. There would be 80-100 eggs cooking on the griddle. The inmates would point out the 2 eggs they wanted. If they were an alpha, the cooks[also inmates] would ask them how they wanted them cooked. Otherwise, you got them any way the cook decided to give them to you. The predators would have the pansies next to them in line. The pansies would be coerced into "giving" their 2 eggs to the predator. Asshole wardens and associate wardens wanted us hacks doing mess hall duty to enforce "eat all you take." It wasn't much of a problem because if you didn't want to finish what was on your tray some body builder or fat fuck would always eat it. Leavenworth had very good food. Fresh pork from the adjacent pig farm prison camp. Fresh vegetables from the farm in season. Always freshly cooked bread, rolls, biscuits, corn bread. It makes good sense to have good food in prison. Keeps the natives @ peace.

Michael Haz said...

I don't give two shits about starving people anywhere else

When I was a child, the adults in my household exhorted us (my siblings, cousins, etc. and myself) to clean out plates "because there are starving children in India". I didn't know what that meant, but thought that somehow if I ate a bit more other kids in India wouldn't starve. So I cleaned my plate.

When we became college age adults, my cousins And I would meet for a few pitchers of beer and admonish each other to finish our beers "because there are sober children in India".

To this day, I have yet to leave a drink unfinished.