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By *ugby 123 OP Couple
over a year ago
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We stopped off for dinner while out at the weekend and it was a carvery. People were piling their plates up so high they had to walk really slow to get to their table, they can't possibly have eaten it all..........so do you pile high or just get what you would normally eat? |
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By *ugby 123 OP Couple
over a year ago
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"Get what I normally eat.
Then again, my plate is usually heaped up at home, so it looks like I'd be one of those 'slow walkers'  "
lol maybe they are better off giving out two plates !
What I couldn't understand was the people were really slim, and if they ate all what they had piled on and that was normal, they must think us bigger people eat 4 times as much ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a very big appetite - scare people in amount I can eat, but as at home,I would take what I know I eat & go back for seconds  (typo's in deleted post, sorry! )
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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it makes me smile too, when I see people with plates heaped high, you'd think they hadn't eaten for days
People just go into "dog mode" when at these "all you can eat" places. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for "getting your money's worth" but this behaviour is one of the reasons that I avoid such places  |
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Don't you think it's a British thing?, I know the Americans are often the same but us Brits are so excessive.....
A few years ago as a special treat we booked into a very posh hotel in Ibiza, it was the opposite of our normal haunt on the island but as it was a special anniversary we opted to splash out for once.
The breakfast was buffet style and you could always tell who the Brits were in the morning, with plates stacked up ridiculously high with stuff that was mostly left uneaten.
If there were Five different breakfast rolls and they couldn't make their mind up what to have....they would have them all, taste four of them and only really eat the fifth! |
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"it makes me smile too, when I see people with plates heaped high, you'd think they hadn't eaten for days
People just go into "dog mode" when at these "all you can eat" places. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for "getting your money's worth" but this behaviour is one of the reasons that I avoid such places "
Have you tried the all you can eat Chinese in Plymouth City centre?, I have seen people with plates there that look like the leaning tower of feckin' Pisa! |
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By *ugby 123 OP Couple
over a year ago
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Well they were either trying to stuff themselves silly so they didn't have to eat for a week, or have the mentality you are talking about Jane.
All I know is it put me off eating, as they seemed to be eating like pigs too, couldn't get enough in their mouths at once. |
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The thing is in the carvery I go to you can go back up for vegetables and yorkshires, but you still see people with ten roast potatoes hanging off their plates.....I know I shouldn't but I find I just have to look (and comment) on them, my hubby hates going there with me.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I's the same at the one I go to. As much as you can eat for £3.50.
You can go back for veg and Yorks pudds etc. Everything bar the meat.
I hate wasting food so I only put what I can eat on there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As we normally pay more to eat out than it would to make it at home, my plate looks like a mountain and yes I eat the lot.
What I have noticed tho if there is a salad bar, which I love, they provide plates the size of a saucer!!! So small you can just about get a piece of cucumber and a lettuce leaf on and that's it. I do feel I look greedy when I keep going back tho. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"really annoys me when i see it cant stand to see people greedy,
when they know dam well there not going to eat it all"
Says the man as he's holding a massive jug of beer in his profile pic.
Hope you didn't waste any of it  |
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By *eritageMan
over a year ago
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"really annoys me when i see it cant stand to see people greedy,
when they know dam well there not going to eat it all
Says the man as he's holding a massive jug of beer in his profile pic.
Hope you didn't waste any of it "
lol that was me chaser
on hol with eldest lad shareing pitchers of beer ,
but your right did get greedy on them but didnt waist a drop |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I agree with a lot that has been posted but. If a man had the same deal in a brothel wouldn't he fill his room also ? Whether he could finish the lot or not ? Just a thought ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was staying at the Hilton Brighton recently. They have a buffet style breakfast it was embarrassing watching people stack their plates. You could tell they didn't even want the food but were "getting their monies worth".
The only thing I had every day, my yearly treat, black pudding!! It's something I shouldn't like and certainly shouldn't eat but...hmmmmmm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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iv seen folk with plates that you honestly werent sure if they were goin to eat it or climb it!! 
i take what i need and dont mind a few trips back for more i bloody hate waste!! xx |
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I always get a "good" plateful when i go to a carvery but i eat it all and never go back for seconds. When having breakfast in a hotel i usually have fruit with yogurt and the cooked breakfast which i dont ever have at home but i have it and then dont eat till about 8 in the evening.
Ten years ago took my son to euro disney paid £10 each extra to have a "character" breakfast where they all come round. There was so much choice of food never seen anything like it in my life and what did my son have............. one banana lol |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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"Don't you think it's a British thing?, I know the Americans are often the same but us Brits are so excessive.....
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No, the Amercians are worse in my experience.
More than once I've seen one with a plate piled high with grits, bacon, eggs, toast...
..and pancakes and syrup on top. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My local Toby Carvery is immense.
£3.50 for all you can eat. I tend to eat as much as i can . Yes its greed but why should i care what other people think, am sure they don't when they're eating their huge portions.
Also love the local Indian and Chinese who also do a cracking buffet and i again tend to stuff my face.
Great value if you ask me.
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By *ig badMan
over a year ago
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"My local Toby Carvery is immense.
£3.50 for all you can eat. I tend to eat as much as i can . Yes its greed but why should i care what other people think, am sure they don't when they're eating their huge portions.
Also love the local Indian and Chinese who also do a cracking buffet and i again tend to stuff my face.
Great value if you ask me.
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The Indian ones are pretty good when you can keep going back. It makes you wonder at times though if its put on as a loss leader at times  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My local Toby Carvery is immense.
£3.50 for all you can eat. I tend to eat as much as i can . Yes its greed but why should i care what other people think, am sure they don't when they're eating their huge portions.
Also love the local Indian and Chinese who also do a cracking buffet and i again tend to stuff my face.
Great value if you ask me.
The Indian ones are pretty good when you can keep going back. It makes you wonder at times though if its put on as a loss leader at times "
They will hope they can make their money on the drinks.
Usually at an Indian i'm that stuffed i can't drink a pint |
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