Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for August 26, 2019

It’s called The Pigs Trough.

Some people don’t understand that all-you-can-eat dining is a contact sport.

These places are totally useless to me.

It doesn’t know it yet but it just went out of business!

Count your blessings, Laura. It COULD have been an “all you can drink” coffee house.

We have one of those, only it’s more of an if you can eat it!

This place has a sign on the front door that says “Sorry, We’re Open!”

you can’t win them all, Laura.

In the past I was probably the kind of customer an all you can eat place fears to see coming

With my metabolism, I’ve never had to worry much about gaining weight

With age, however, my digestion isn’t as happy with massive meals as it used to be

Is there a new all-you-can-eat place in town that has not banned him?

More like an “all you can pile on your plate, leave half and queue up for another plateful” restaurant.

I heard that in Germany at those restaurants you can be fined for taking more than you can eat, and “doggie bags” are not allowed.

On the upside, Laura, you won’t be fixin’ all he can eat.

Sounds like Dagwood Bumstead would be interested.

You’d think the Chamber of Commerce would remember the Cici’s Pizza Disaster of ’08 and discourage such businesses…

Laura didn’t want to hear that!

Oh come on, Rob Harrell!!! You needed a “?!?” to really sell Adam’s excited scream.

I don’t like most “all you can eat” places. I’d much rather have a reasonable amount of good food than a load of garbage.

Our favourite hotel in Perth, Miss Maud’s Swedish Hotel, has an amazing breakfast buffet, as well as a dinner one :) We go there on our anniversary/birthdays if we can. Or even specialist appointments. PATS (Regional program that pays for transport and hotels on appointment days) are another thing we stay there for :)

I would like to know if Adam (with or without family) has ever been back to the “Mayonnaise-ateria” (can’t remember the proper spelling) from a while back! Although it hardly seems like it would be a healthy (or even good) place to go, at the same time it sounds curiously inviting.

Gee, Why does Katy have it in for Laura?

The “all you can eat” is a cheap way to make you fat and keep you fat.

All you can eat is an offer – not a challenge!!

One can pick the assortment of foods that they want – one does not and should not be a pig. Husband and I are both Diabetics. We go to all you can eat restaurant once a week for dinner out. When we go to Lancaster, PA several times a year we eat every night at local buffets.

We don’t eat more than we do normally. What we can do is take foods that we can eat as Diabetics in the proportion that we need to eat them. If one goes into a restaurant and the main course comes with a starch and a vegetable – one may or may not be able to substitute a second veg for the starch. We used to go to one local restaurant that came with starch & veg. I would order with one veg and nothing else. I would reminder the server to let the kitchen know that was what I wanted and nothing else – and invariably the plate could come out with mashed potatoes over the food and I would have to send back. One can take extra salad – and take it without high carb vegs and control the amount of salad dressing (if any) on the salad.

And, if one of us does want to take a small bit of something we should not eat – one can take the small amount and get a full serving of it as one would in a regular restaurant.

There is a website about this called The Art of the Buffet.

“Arr, ‘tis no man! ’Tis a remorseless eatin’ machine!” Anyone?… Anyone…?