Well, today Younger and her hubby took me out to a Toby for an AYCE breakfast, and it was nothing to do with the fact that I had a discount code, or that I was paying.
Anyway, I wondered if AYCE contributes to obesity. This study seems to think it does.
Now, Younger is somewhat of a heifer, for the life of me I don’t know why, she hardly takes after me, but her hubby is like a whippet and put away three times the amount I did.
He’s not exactly a spring chicken either, 50 next month and Younger got her moneys worth too.
I have to say, that compared to the other customers, we three were positively emaciated.
So does AYCE contribute to obesity?
Yes, without a doubt.
P. S. The sausages were absolutely delicious and I really don’t know how those 3 found their way into my coat pocket, but the dog and I enjoyed our supper.
Nominated by Jeezum Priest.
Why did a picture of David Lammy and Emily Thornberry sitting round groaning table just pop into my mind?
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Love the header pic, Admin!
👍
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The Argentinian restaurants do the same here.
For a fixed price they firstly bring along bread, pasta, salad and chips.
Not many people bother with eating those things as they will just fill you up.
Next comes the huge skewers of meat.
First sausage and chicken which isn’t too popular, but then the beef lamb and pork.
The waiters just keep coming until you tell them to fuck off.
We had a Chinese restaurant that allowed you to keep ordering the same dish time and time again, until you were stuffed.
It was good to go as a group and get many different dishes between you all.
A Spanish restaurant served small portions of food, but as much as you wanted for one price.
A slice of pizza, a small dish of prawns or mussels, jamón with melon etc…..
You only had to pay more if you ordered something and didn’t eat it.
I don’t have the appetite for these places any more, I wouldn’t get my money’s worth.
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Interesting take on how things are there, Artful.
Me and the ball-n-chain like an Alaskan cruise. Course we do. There are ‘specialty’ restaurants onboard which you have to pay extra for as it’s not included in the regular cost of the cruise. The extra cost runs about $45 per head.
These ‘specialty’ restaurants have full menus with main course size servings and you can order anything and everything. Even though we’d paid for the privilege, we just couldn’t order a dozen or more different dishes just to have a taste. You know what though? Some people do. We’ve seen it. Plates and plates of superb food barely touched taken away again, only to be thrown out. How wasteful.
That said, we cruise at the high end of the market (Celebrity Cruises) and are constantly amazed at the riff-raff they let onboard. You’d think the price point would dissuade the scum class of society. Some of these people haven’t sat on chairs before, let alone discovered fire.
We laugh about them as we quaff Champagne in our suite.
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JP@
your like Sheffields version of Rob Bryden,
Your eating out in luxury most days!!
Bet your washing up liquid lasts the year?
Your never bloody in!
Starting to think Labour was right about the winter fuel grant 😀
Anyway, think I’ve only been in a All You Can eat restaurant once,
That was Chinese.
So didn’t eat much.
Doubt it contributes to obesity.
The cunts would rue the day if it was Holland’s pies!
I’d put them out of business.
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I have a dishwasher, Mis, but some things have to be handwashed.
I have a bottle of washing-up liquid that I bought in early 2020, and it’s still a quarter full!
Strangely enough, washing-up liquid was one of the things, along with toilet rolls, hand gel, etc. that became almost impossible to buy, at that time.
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I prefer a nice funeral spread.
Always good food at funeral.
Sausage rolls
Pork pies
Nice buttys
Chicken legs
Vol au vents
Cracking!👍
I’m up at the table with my paper plate three or four times.
Hard to look sad when your enjoying yourself.
Have to remember not to whistle when stood in line!
And have to remember to say to the widow
‘sorry for your loss’
Rather than
‘My compliments to the chef!’
Hehehe 😂
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I bet you’re the sort of chap, MNC, who goes to funerals of work opposition, stuffs himself at the wake and leaves business cards strewn all over the venue. I suspect funerals are a good source of business for you people are always wanting stuff moved after a dearly beloved has gone to pastures new.
Good Morning
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Oh yes indeed Wanksock!
I often turn up at a funeral with a serviette tucked into my collar and clutching my eating irons.
Don’t go to any funerals for vegans though.
The food would definitely have me crying.
“That big fella sobbing his heart out?
He family?”
Never seen him before.
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The public buffet is something I try to avoid after I saw some old cunt in a hotel trying the different dishes with the serving utensils then putting them back.
I suspect he was a fucking Belgian.
The fat cunt.
Good morning.
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The story of the doner kebab rotating on the thing in a chippy one Friday night after chucking out time .. a scummy drunk refused entrance reappears 2 mins later .. opens the door .. hoccckkk-spiiiit a big dirty phlegmy-one right on the meat.
Ejected again, staffer just goes and trims a few slivers off the thing and carries on serving from it like it was policy. Saw it happen!
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@cea…they probably sliced the offending groz off to not spoil their reputation for the homemade variety 👍
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ha,yeah.
Me and the clique stayed an extra ten mins in the booth we were in (I never ate in those places but my mates had lower standards) .. to see who would come in after the event & order from the (potentially HIV+) lump .. to see unpleasant cunts we didn’t like, y’see .. then someone decent comes in ; starts to order .. ”oi, Sharkey, noooooooo” 😄
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All You Can Eat buffets are shit. As a veggie, I never go as I used to ask for a discount, but t’was never given. Why should I pay the same if I only have a quarter of the menu’s choice? Steal as much as you can, I say. Mind you, some of the crap on display looked like it had seen better days. Even the cockroaches would turn up their noses at some of the dried-up, future diarrhoea.
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Isn’t there any vegetarian all you can eat restaurants Maggie?
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I don’t know, Les Mis. Unless the tucker was covered, I wouldn’t eat there anyway. In a similar way, I avoid any restaurant/café with the ‘just eat’ sign.
Future diarrhoea.
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How can you tell if a person is vegetarian?
You don’t have to, they’ll tell you 🙂
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If vegans are vegetarians
Then cannibals must be…
Humanitarians?
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II was advised when staying on work courses in hotels to take foil. Load plate for breakfast a couple of extra sausages and bacon four slices of bread and a sachet of brown sauce. Voila lunch is served for free
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Pikey 👍
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OH yes.
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Been there done that. Know as “forward thinking”.
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Been there, done that.
Also, hotels abroad when on half-board or B&B basis, as they always serve cold meats and sliced cheese as part of the continental breakfast.
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Working in the pines, billeted in a put country hotel, early start…they said use the kitchen fix your own breakfast anything you like
We had eye fillet for breakfast all week!
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Vegas Bellagio All you can eat breakfast buffet … had the makings of a roast beef dinner in the fucking thing, I always remember … (looked, didn’t partake, $10 is my recollection though) …
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In Norway, everything is mentally expensive, so I would always nick a hard boiled egg and have it later. The hard boiled eggs were in a bowl next to the soft boiled eggs. One day the cunts swapped them around. Later on that day, feeling peckish, I went to peel me egg, on the bus. It made a right mess. Cunts.
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The restaurant I’d love to open for all obese customers, would be a killer one. It wouldn’t be to make a profit, just to see off all fat cunts with their last supper. The sponge pudding would be the killer, by actually stuffing sponges tightly into foods that would expand later in the gut and they’ll become no more.
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I guess I’ll be giving yours a pass then Sammy
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Greedy gits.
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All you can eat…a concept they came up with in ‘Merica, obviously, Las Vegas to be precise.
Fat fucks.
I’m generalising of course, some Yanks are surprisingly cultured.
Smoke their own meat and percolate their own coffee.
Pretty impressive considering their substandard education.
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I went to an Irish Pub for Brunch once. It was terrible.
All they had were potatoes and cabbage and they were out of potatoes.
The staff were all a bunch of miserable blowhards complaining about Cromwell, the Famine and the Bloody British Empire.
There was a picture of the founder on the wall. An Irish Colour Sergeant in the British Army serving tea to English officers in the Officers Mess.
The place was called Mickey Fenians.
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It’s pretty tragic to like your own posts, General, so I’ve added one for you to make you feel better.
Slainte ☘️
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I know that why I don’t do it.
Did you like it 3 times?
All the best
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Just one thin waffer monsewer Creosote ?
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How about a Take Away for fat cunts. Have all their favourite animals they’d like to eat on leads and say, here you are, take these home and cook them your fucking self, you lazy fat cunts.
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I went to a restaurant in Brazil where you piled up your plate with whatever you wanted and they weigh it to give you a price.
I had lobster and steak, Mrs Cunter had pasta.
Her plate weighed more than mine so hers was more expensive.
The worst waste of food was when an internal flight was delayed in The Philippines.
The fucking local peasants were piling their plates high with as much food as possible, then having a few fork fulls before discarding what they had chosen and going back to get another load.
I don’t think that they had seen so much food before.
Most of it went to waste.
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I’ve always wanted to go to somewhere where the catering is one of those ‘ hog roasts’ with a pig on a spit revolving over a fire pit.
And they carve the pork off for you.
Perfect that.
No fuckin about,
No waiters,
No trying to guess which fork to use,
Just big slice of meat on a paper plate.
And a keg of bitter on tap.
Maybe one of those medieval folk bands with lures and hardy gurdys?
I’d like that.
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One sunny summer afternoon we went to a wedding reception outdoors which was just as you describe Mis. The thing with spit roasting is ensuring that the meat is thoroughly cooked right through. The caterers at this event really knew their stuff. The pig had been cooked properly immediately before then put on the spit over the fire at the event and therefore was served pipiing hot and importantly, safe. Good day that was.
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Sounds good 👍
Once went a wedding that was done on a tight budget.
Food was a massive catering can of Hot pot!
And instead of a disco they had a English folk band.
Missus Miserable wasn’t keen but it was the best wedding I’d ever been!
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I had a spit roast at a wedding once, in the garden.
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Cap’n
were you one of the spigots or the roast?😬😬😬
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Wild boar is the way to go!
That or suckling pig.
If you ever venture my way then the place for you to eat would have to be Sobrino de Botín in Madrid.
Suckling pig served with roast potatoes.
It is also the oldest restaurant in the world.
https://botin.es/en/
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…and to think, they tarted out with nowt but a loaf and five fishes…
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Is that what they call Lechon, Artful?
Not yet had the pleasure but on the to-do list.
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Yes.
Lechón is where they shove the suckling pig in a wood fired oven.
It is very hot but not much fat is needed to cook it.
The oven in the restaurant has never been put out since the place opened about 300 year’s ago, so the story goes.
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Guinea pig (cuy) is supposed to be the best type of ‘pork’ that you can eat.
I have never tried it but it is still eaten a lot in Peru.
If I was to see it on a menu here I would have a go.
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Spanish food located around Bilbao and san sebastian is the real deal imho.
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My only neice got married in some licenced to have weddings nobby place.
The hog roast was the centrepiece of the wedding breakfast, and absolutely succulent it was, too.
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I eat just whatever I fancy and in whatever quantity I please. I just weighed myself, 10st3lbs. I eat cakes and chocolate, much to the annoyance of my GP, but I’ve never smoked. I never eat KFC, McDonald’s, Burger King etc. Most days I’ll have a (440ml) can of beer and a small glass of wine with dinner. I eat three meals a day except on Sunday when the wife does a traditional roast and usually that’s the only meal I have that day. My GP says I should cut down on the alcohol, cut out the cakes and chocolate, walk half an hour a day and only have red meat once a week. She’s going to be disappointed. Like yours Jeezum our two daughters are both bigger than me. The elder is 6″ taller than me and can literally tuck me under her arm and carry me. Takes after her mother’s side I think, who were all big strong types, women included.
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I eat what I want.
If I listened to medical types I’d die of malnourishment.
They said butter was bad for you?
Now they say it isn’t.
They said eggs were dangerous for you like hand grenades laid by chickens.
Now they say eggs aren’t dangerous.
Fuck off.
We are omnivorous animals.
We’ve developed over thousands of years to eat certain things.
Meat
Fish
Vegetables
Fruit
You stick with that you’ll be at the doctor’s funeral laughing and eating a chicken leg as they sing a hymn.
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I have always been careful with what I eat MNC.
No takeaways, fast food or ready meals.
I am not overweight.
That didn’t stop me from getting diabetes.
Now, no spuds cooked in any way, no pasta, no rice, no cake or biscuits, no white bread, no butter or anything too salty.
I can’t eat Indian food but a stir fry Chinese is OK, with steamed vegetables.
I can have as much meat as I want as long as it is lean and not processed.
You have to be imaginative with your food and I have changed my diet completely.
That’s because I don’t want medication.
I am disciplined enough to control my life through diet.
It works.
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Currently trying to grow all my own vegetables and fruit Artie.
Or a big portion of it.
Onions, spring onions, cabbage, broccoli, broad bean, potatoes, lettuce etc
I’ve cut down on sweet stuff,
And don’t eat takeaways anyway.
Bread is something I’d struggle to do without.
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It’s white bread that fucks you up.
I can eat wholemeal.
White bread is the best for sausage and/or bacon sandwiches, but as I can’t eat sausages or bacon I can do without.
Life is a cunt!
Is it worth growing your own vegetables.
Don’t you have a farm near you?
Farms here sell direct and if you don’t mind misshapen stuff it’s dirt cheap.
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Just eat two supermarket value sausage daily.
That’s all the bread you’ll need.
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I can’t eat Indian ‘food’ either.
Because it looks like someone has already eaten it and shat it on a plate, filthy muck.
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Same.
I heave at the thought of it.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/ylyGU2BL_Hg?si=4YJ5rip-ZKXZFT5E
Indian “food”
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How about a none profit making restaurant for the obese. Whilst eating free food, they’re surrounded by vision & sound of animals being slaughtered. Just out of interest, I’d be fascinated with how many fat cunts would endure it. I wonder, on their way out when asked they should be ashamed of themselves, I’d be interested by the reaction. Would I be risking life and limb? Maybe not. They’d probably be too stuffed to bother.
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If animals weren’t meant to be eaten they wouldn’t be made of burgers and pork pies.
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Hope you enjoyed the Chinese yesterday for your birthday JP.
What did the fortune cookie say?
‘He who gives out of date discount voucher runs like ocean breeze?’
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And did you wear your kimono?
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And use chopsticks.
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No Art, I’m not Chinese so I used a fork.
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Not again!
Happi jacket, for the millionth time.
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😁 hehehe
Happy birthday for this week JP
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It said
” Those that profess wisdom are usually IsAC readers”
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Out of interest, are there any fat cannibals amongst you. There must be by the law of averages, with all the illegal immigrants we have now.
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Old cunts are suckers for the AYCE. There was one at a seaside hotel that Mrs Twenty and I visited last July. The cunts were queuing almost an hour in advance., When the waitresses bought out the trays there was an unseemly scrimmage. They were worse scousers fighting over smack. Elbows were the weapon of choice for the wrinkly horde., The tutting was epic. It was all so amusing that Mrs Twenty and I just stood back and watched the fun. How the old fuckers managed to gum so much cold meat is a mystery. But not as much of a mystery as how they put away seven puddings each.
‘La Grande Bouffe’ wasn’t nearly as entertaining.
They should make a TV show with different age categories. My bet is that the octogenarian cunts would beat the teenage cunts every time.
Goof morning, everyone.
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What I really don’t understand is folks that pile the plate up with so much grub they look like they’re walking the high wire taking it back to their table.
Why, ffs, it’s called AYCE for a reason, you can go back and get more as many times as you want?
Most of it must be clock cold by the time you get round to eating it!
On a cruise once, I saw three women ( the size of tug oats) put an entire, catering sized, chocolate gateau on their table, and that was before they’d even got any other food.
It’s a good job none of them fell overboard, Captain Ahab would’ve been there in seconds.
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Tugboats, not oats.
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When I was based in the southern US I used to frequent one of those places called Golden Corral, or as it was better known, The Golden Trough! It used to be AYCE but then changed to ‘All you care to eat’ as the former seemed to be a challenge! To be honest, it was absolutely awesome food, with hundreds of different choices! Think it was closed from 2300-0100 and then started again. No time limit and I think the dinner buffet was $20. Bloody loved it and there was some very nice women in there who loved my English accent!
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Hey Foggy,
Golden Corral is still in business and still a favorite in the American South.
Like so many others they had to close during the Plague but they are back up and running.
Ironically, they have launched a fast food service and entered a delivery partnership with Grubhub and Doordash.
Trump / Vance
MAGA
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Very happy to hear that, General. Might take a trip over later in the year!
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As a rugby club we used to stay at the Tower Hotel they had a fantastic carvery not like the shit of today go back for more veg, all you could eat everything and the meat was top notch don’t think they made a lot of money out of our party.
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I’ve been to Toby Carvery for lunch and tea, they’re fucking mean with the meat.
I always say, I’m not Tiny Tim, put a bit more on. “gapes”. But then I ask for a slice of turkey. They almost lose their minds.
Hillarious!
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If anyone’s around Glasgow, Edinburgh or Glenrothes and can make it to a Beijing Banquet… Fuck me.
The people who frequent it are questionable, but the food is absolutely spot on. Think of your favourite Cantonese take away but unlimited, with teppanyaki.
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