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Title: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: ChrissyRyan on March 25, 2026, 08:14:16 PM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on March 25, 2026, 08:14:16 PM
Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Perhaps an Asian buffet or a seafood buffet or a brunch buffet or at a conference having a buffet style luncheon or maybe one of those steak plus more food buffets or...?
They might cause some people to overeat, as the all you can eat buffets may entice some to "get more for their money."
Perhaps an Asian buffet or a seafood buffet or a brunch buffet or at a conference having a buffet style luncheon or maybe one of those steak plus more food buffets or...?
They might cause some people to overeat, as the all you can eat buffets may entice some to "get more for their money."
Title: Re: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: Dawn Kellie on March 25, 2026, 08:27:39 PM
Post by: Dawn Kellie on March 25, 2026, 08:27:39 PM
I used to but my waist line tells me not any more.
Title: Re: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: Athena on March 26, 2026, 04:08:28 AM
Post by: Athena on March 26, 2026, 04:08:28 AM
Not really the food quality just isn't there
Title: Re: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: Stottie Girl on March 26, 2026, 04:53:46 AM
Post by: Stottie Girl on March 26, 2026, 04:53:46 AM
This might be a UK thing but no, not keen.
I don't like cold butter so that rules the sandwiches out, I don't like quiche with onion in and so many people do that, I can't risk it. I'm not a fan of cold cheese and I always try to avoid going up early in case anyone thinks I'm a fat pig! By the time I get up there all the best bits have been taken. Vol au vents are pot luck too.
Going out to a restaurant type buffet might be slightly better but I always think the food is just warm not hot and I have to question the safety/hygiene of leaving food out in a bain marie for that long.
A carvery buffet on the other hand is excellent.
I don't like cold butter so that rules the sandwiches out, I don't like quiche with onion in and so many people do that, I can't risk it. I'm not a fan of cold cheese and I always try to avoid going up early in case anyone thinks I'm a fat pig! By the time I get up there all the best bits have been taken. Vol au vents are pot luck too.
Going out to a restaurant type buffet might be slightly better but I always think the food is just warm not hot and I have to question the safety/hygiene of leaving food out in a bain marie for that long.
A carvery buffet on the other hand is excellent.
Title: Re: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: Charlotte Kitty on March 26, 2026, 05:21:42 AM
Post by: Charlotte Kitty on March 26, 2026, 05:21:42 AM
I don't mind if it's not busy so I can get around without queing or people in my way. For some reason queuing causes me to get stressed and irritable and even more so if people are in the way!
Charlotte 😻
Charlotte 😻
Title: Re: Do you like going to buffets or having buffet style meals?
Post by: big kim on March 26, 2026, 06:33:06 AM
Post by: big kim on March 26, 2026, 06:33:06 AM
Enjoyed the last one I went to in Blackpool. There was Indian,Thai,Chinese,Mexican etc. A few weeks later I read it got zero stars from the health inspection and was shut down immediately! I must have been immune to it but plenty people had the Brad Pitts after a night in there!