All you can eat chip shop buffet

[strung out]

i've been there before! very tasty.

 

[ajdown]

Very popular in the US, been to one of these several times: http://www.oldcountrybuffet.com/ (sorry bout the music on homepage).

As long as it isn't "full size" pieces of fish, but smaller battered pieces of cod, haddock, plaice etc I don't see a problem with it. We've had chinese buffets, indian buffets and whatnot for years so why can't we finally have an 'english buffet'?

Like most people, I couldn't eat much more than one "full size" portion of fish and chips but if you had an option to mix and match stuff, I'd be well up for it - but why is it in Coventry instead of somewhere more useful?

 

[DotCommunist]

If I ran these buffets I'd serve the meals in troughs, as an ironic comment about gluttony. Which is, by the way, one of the seven deadly sins.

 

[fractionMan]

eat the rich imo.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Why are people embarrassed about ordering pizza online?

 

[strung out]

nothing wrong with it whatsoever. it's the easiest method.

 

[8ball]

. . . why is it in Coventry instead of somewhere more useful?

 

[kittyP]

It looks disgusting http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8320043.stm but I would possible go once to see what its like.

Sorry but my links and smileys buttons are not working for some reason.

 

[DeepStoat]

If so its a horrible drunken free for all food wastage nightmare of gluttony and wanton disrespect

But is it a crsipy fried wanton disrespect.

 

[sim667]

I hope it fails miserably........

It's a disgusting idea!

 

[8ball]

I hope it fails miserably........

It's a disgusting idea!

I can see why people who are a bit miserable and trying to hold onto the pennies would be tempted, as well as people who have 'fussy eaters' in the group. I'd probably have considered it when I was a student.

You should be able to collect tokens that can be put towards heart bypass surgery.

 

[Stig]

I like the idea!

I'd eat a very small portion of food, but I'd like to try a few different things. i want a couple of chips, withouyt paying for a full portion. I wouldn't mind a few beans, but really only a small spoonful! And a bit of fish, but i'd pick out a small one. Then i might want a bit of something else, a couple of mushy peas? And a chicken wing too, why not.

I wouldn't do it very often though, it's still a greasy fry-up.

 

[tarannau]

The trouble with this place isn't necesssarily the concept - there are decent All You Can eat joints in the US and amazing churrascaria in Brazil, where they bring you finely BBQed meat until you explode - but the sad reality of the experience in Britain.

It's basically grimbo food, selected, cooked and served without love, piled cheaply and high. They may as well stick a sign up that says 'pile as much random crap as you can fit on your plate'

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It does look a lot like the Las Vegas breakfast buffets. Confused the hell out of me because there was just too much to choose from!

Looks a bit like school dinners as well.

I don't think it's a bad idea in itself - a lot of people like to eat that kind of food and a lot of people don't have very much money. Why shouldn't there be somewhere for them to go out for tea? Most people won't eat until they burst although some will. I agree that we should be educating people to eat less of that kind of crap food but there's a long way to go and I'm not sure a chorus of disapproval about a cheap restaurant is very useful.

 

[ajdown]

Nobody thinks twice about a chinese buffet, where you can have a spoonful of this, one of those, and a portion of that, and go back several times as you fancy, as being wierd, gluttonous or whatever else.

So why is it, when it's selling traditional English food instead, suddenly strange? I'd have thought our many 'working class board users' would have enjoyed the opportunity to eat traditional cultural fare on a budget.

 

[Onket]

There is nothing wrong with this at all, unless you take your kids down there every day & turn them into the fat kid in background of the picture on kittyp's link.

 

[tarannau]

Aj Down - IT'S NOT SELLING JUST ENGLISH FOOD

It's basically an Indian Fast Food buffet, but done worse. But alongside a rubbish anglicised chinese buffet, a few mexican items and an English/Fish n Chips/deep fried sausage area.

As I say imagine your school dinners all over again, or the contents of the hot cabinets in the average motorway service station left open for you to help yourself.

At least there's more of a tradition of multiple smaller banquet dishes in Chinese and Asian cooking in general.

 

[DotCommunist]

Nobody thinks twice about a chinese buffet, where you can have a spoonful of this, one of those, and a portion of that, and go back several times as you fancy, as being wierd, gluttonous or whatever else.

So why is it, when it's selling traditional English food instead, suddenly strange? I'd have thought our many 'working class board users' would have enjoyed the opportunity to eat traditional cultural fare on a budget.

I cuss the very concept of all you can eat. Excuse for gluttony. Don't care what you're serving.

 

[ajdown]

I cuss the very concept of all you can eat. Excuse for gluttony. Don't care what you're serving.

What's wrong with it then? Nobody's forcing you or anyone else to eat stuff you don't want to, or to even go. What gives you the right to criticise anyone else who does?

 

[DotCommunist]

It's unhealthy, and morally objectionable to shovel plate after plate food down your fat face while people starve. I'd like to see their wastage at the end of the day as well. It's disgusting.

And yes I do use a ladder to climb this high horse

 

[ajdown]

It's unhealthy, and morally objectionable to shovel plate after plate food down your fat face while people starve. I'd like to see their wastage at the end of the day as well. It's disgusting.

And yes I do use a ladder to climb this high horse

You sound like a vegetarian, jealous of people being able to eat what they fancy whilst you force yourself to eat mung beans.

 

[DotCommunist]

I eat what I like. But crucially, I am satisfied with a normal portion, then maybe a slice of cake for pudding. I don't sit like the bloke from that Monty Python sketch, shovelling it all in to my gob then exploding off of a wafer thin mint.

 

[fogbat]

What's wrong with it then? Nobody's forcing you or anyone else to eat stuff you don't want to, or to even go. What gives you the right to criticise anyone else who does?

I would like you to remember this post, every time you whinge about someone else doing something that does not affect you at all.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I can only manage a small bag of chips and a saveloy before I am stuffed. That only costs a couple of quid.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I eat what I like. But crucially, I am satisfied with a normal portion, then maybe a slice of cake for pudding. I don't sit like the bloke from that Monty Python sketch, shovelling it all in to my gob then exploding off of a wafer thin mint.

Most poeple don't do that at these places though do they? That's why they make so much money out of them because people can generally only eat so much so although they think they can go back for seconds or thirds, not many actually do.

 

[ajdown]

What's the difference between someone spending £30 on a posh meal that leaves them feeling full and satisfied, or going to a buffet and getting the same feelings for £7.99 - albeit perhaps not as healthy.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I'm moist at the very thought, tbh. It'd be like one big salty self-harming session. Fucking yes

 

[tarannau]

I don't think that's true Mrs M, certainly not in my experience of Brits wasting food on all you can eat buffets around the world.

The reason why they can serve food so cheap is that buy low quality, bulked up/water enhanced items to begin with, they deskill their labour and employ comparatively few people for the size of their operation.

 

[ajdown]

they deskill their labour

Frying chips is not exactly rocket science, is it?

 

[killer b]

Frying chips is not exactly rocket science, is it?

and yet so many places still seem unable to do it...