Buffet eating - EWWWWW

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axolotl:
Anthony Bourdain’s book Kitchen Confidential really turned me off of buffets.
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Anthony Bourdain is my hero grins
 
what turns me off buffets is watching what unsupervised kids do, especially at the salad bar. I would not eat food my grandkids have been playing in. the other disgusting thing, and I don’t want to implicate any buffet chain (but the initials are GC) is that they seem to attract the few people in the world heavier than I am, who all seem to wear trousers that, shall we say, need suspenders especially in back. I feel tubby just walking in the place.
 
Buffet horror story, from the book “Faster”:

A Japan restauranteur opened a buffet restaurant that charges patrons for their meals by the minute. That is right. Not just all-you-can-eat, but by-the-clock all-you-can-stuff-in. There is a long line every lunch hour. The customers who come in with “companions” utterly ignore each them in their rush to finish eating, in order to check out at a reduced price.

I cannot express how thankful and surprised I am that an American did not come up with this revolting business plan. May it never catch on here, and may it die a speedy death over there.
 
I have had nothing but bad experiences with cleanliness at Chinese Buffets. I tried 4 of them before I gave up. Either the food was atrocious or the place itself was dirty; or a combo of both. We have 2 Chinese Buffets withing one mile of our home and we dont even bother. We order from a Chinese restuarant instead.

We have been going to Old Country Buffet for 5 years and its quite clean. The staff is always wiping the areas down and coming out with thermometers to ensure the food trays are kept at proper temperatures. I have never had a bad dining experience at this chain.
 
Sometimes I like to go to a buffet…but I agree about the portion control and the many fried foods.

However, during cold and flu season all that warm food is a perfect breeding ground for germs…
 
I don’t do buffets since I saw kids at the dessert bar licking fingers, going back for more food and handling the utensils after the licking and in one case actually licking the spoon in the chocolate moose. No thanks!
 
My kids and I went to a chinese buffet that has all you can eat crab legs in the evening. I feel safer when we get there when the food has just come out. That is until some guy came in with his children. The kids I would say were 5 and 7 and not watched at all when they went to the buffet. The children brought back to their table the crab legs and the guy got very angry with them. The kids got up and took the crab legs back to the buffet table and dropped them back in with their fingers. eewww. Needless to say the kids and I were done. Who knows what else they did this to.
 
Okay, someone’s gotta be the first, so I’ll do it:

Restaurant buffet, wedding buffet, Chinese buffet or Ponderosa homestyle: what’s the biggie? To me, restaurant food tastes like restaurant food & comes with all the risks inherent in eating restaurant food. Just 'cause you can see what’s happening to buffet food doesn’t mean it ain’t happening out of view in your four star restaurant’s kitchen.

Call me crazy…tell me I’m “Livin’ on the Edge”…but I’d eat at a buffet any day; it’s all the same to me. Then again, I do drink my milk even when it’s waaaayyyyy past the expiration date, and leave my butter on the countertop overnight. :whacky:
 
I am very fond of Sweet Tomatoes, the salad/ soup/ pizza/ potato/ pasta/ ice cream buffet. It is incredibly clean, at least the one near us is.
 
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catsrus:
Once, while in a Chinese buffet line, my husband kept “meowing” behind me. Needless to say, I chose no meat. :rotfl:
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Cat the other white meat:p
 
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vluvski:
…“The cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon…” -Weird Al, remake of Cat in the Cradle…
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No, it’s not. That was by Bob Rivers/ Manic Larry Baker. Weird Al writes and performs first-class parodies, why does he get blamed for all the third and fourth rate junk too? Nobody blames Michelangelo for painting Still Life with Tapioca and Freon Compressor.
 
I have a new and original complaint!

My husband is HIGHLY allergic to all nuts…(anaphalactic reaction), and we all know how the Chinese love to cook with peanuts and cashews…

He can avoid of course, the “Peanut Chicken”, but people tend to use any utensil in their hands at the time and will reach over and grab the peanut chicken with the bean tongs for instance, and my DH is soooo allergic that he will gets sick just from cross contamination…his throat closes up and lips swell…

We just can’t go.
 
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Lillith:
I have a new and original complaint!

My husband is HIGHLY allergic to all nuts…(anaphalactic reaction), and we all know how the Chinese love to cook with peanuts and cashews…

He can avoid of course, the “Peanut Chicken”, but people tend to use any utensil in their hands at the time and will reach over and grab the peanut chicken with the bean tongs for instance, and my DH is soooo allergic that he will gets sick just from cross contamination…his throat closes up and lips swell…

We just can’t go.
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Peanut oil is commonly used in wok cooking, so perhaps you’d better avoid chinese restaurants regardless of the utensil situation. It will probably be too much trouble to to ask that the restaurant thouroughly remove all peanut oil from a wok and re-season it with another oil.
 
Joseph Bilodeau:
No, it’s not. That was by Bob Rivers/ Manic Larry Baker. Weird Al writes and performs first-class parodies, why does he get blamed for all the third and fourth rate junk too? Nobody blames Michelangelo for painting Still Life with Tapioca and Freon Compressor.
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I like most of Bob Rivers! I actually paid money for Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire and Flu Ride through iTunes.
 
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OutinChgoburbs:
I like most of Bob Rivers! I actually paid money for Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire and Flu Ride through iTunes.
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Chipmunks isn’t the problem. I liked that too, before I heard some of Rivers’ other work. Much of it is pornographic, such as *Addicted To Butts, What if God Smoked Cannabis?, *Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep, and many others. Weird Al, who is certainly weird but not pornographic, often gets blamed for this trash.
 
Joseph Bilodeau said:
Chipmunks isn’t the problem. I liked that too, before I heard some of Rivers’ other work. Much of it is pornographic, such as *Addicted To Butts, What if God Smoked Cannabis?, *Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep, and many others. Weird Al, who is certainly weird but not pornographic, often gets blamed for this trash.
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I agree with you on that. More than some of it is offensive, and occasions of sin. And you’re right, Weird Al should not get painted with Bob’s paint brush. This is what discernent is about.

But I liked Cat’s in the Kettle, too. Tell me you have not thought about the possibility as you’ve passed through the line at Jumbo Super Happy China Inn.
 
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OutinChgoburbs:
…But I liked Cat’s in the Kettle, too. Tell me you have not thought about the possibility as you’ve passed through the line at Jumbo Super Happy China Inn.
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Couldn’t say, I’ve never eaten there. But I worked in the kitchen of another chinese restaurant when I was in high school. All meat was USDA inspected, and, at that time, at least, the USDA did not inspect cats. Considering the way health inspectors made frequent unannounced visits they really couldn’t have gotten away with using unapproved meats of any kind for very long even if they’d tried to, and if there had been any reason for patrons to suspect them of doing this they probably would have gone out of business faster than you can say Happy Family.

So, no, I really don’t think this happens much more often than human fingers are cooked in pots of chili.
 
I like buffets–although I don’t like chinese. Buffets definitely lose money on me 😛 . The Pizza Hut lunch buffet is legit too.

Sure, you’re probably getting quantity over quality at a buffet, but to me, if it fills me up and tastes good, it doesn’t matter 😃
 
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