All you can eat chip shop buffet

[DotCommunist]

Gout, liver disease, bouts of madness*

*allright that one might be the syphilis. Lust. Another of the 7 deadlies.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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.

Oh well - I've never been to any such place so I am talking out of my ill-informed arse

 

[Onket]

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.

I eat what I like too, and if I want to have a lot now & again, I will.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Come to think of it, my dad's a right greedy fat bastard and he loves all you can eat for £3.99 places. Perhaps there is a connection....

He managed to consume nearly half a jar of mamalade over the course of just 2 breakfasts. Incredible.

 

[tarannau]

I'd like to think that there's more to an English buffet than the ability to man a deep fat fryer AJ.

 

[cesare]

I think I'd rather go to a carvery. Or that veggie indian buffet place in Islington. But if I fancied fried stuff, yeah why not.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I think I'd rather go to a carvery.

Carveries do seem more like what I'd call an English buffet. Roast meat and veg. Can be quite good. Once went to an excellent on in Ireland where the meat was all top quality.

 

[cesare]

Carveries do seem more like what I'd call an English buffet. Roast meat and veg. Can be quite good. Once went to an excellent on in Ireland where the meat was all top quality.

Yep, that's more my idea of an English buffet too. They normally charge a bit more though eh, about the same as a pub Sunday roast. Guess there's just a bit more choice and you can eat more if you really want to.

 

[tarannau]

I like a good gluttinous blowout as much as the next man, but I suspect I'd get the same feeling after eating in one of these places as I would after shovelling two rows of Katona's finest frozen items into my gaping maw. Only I'd be feeling sick in the car pack of some formica munching barn rather than sat at home bloated in my smalls, surrounded by the torn-asunder boxes of Godfellas Pizza, Value curries and deep fried haemorrhoid poppers

My only real distaste for these places is when they claim to be offering a huge variety of food from around the world. It's patently not - it's the same blandicised stuff from the same industrialosmeg food conglomerates masquerading as distinctive world cuisine

 

[ChrisFilter]

haemorrhoid poppers

dude

 

[miss direct]

I'd like to try it. I enjoy going to buffet places because I like to eat a plate with lots of different things on. They'd good value too and if you take it easy the rest of the day, they don't have to be incredibly unhealthy. Sometimes I go to a place called Big Wok in Birmingham, they have a salad bar and vegetables, it's not all crap. I'd try this place - I miss fish and chips a lot, although I do prefer freshly fried fish and chips from a decent chippy.

 

[PacificOcean]

^^^ that sounds much better.

There's an all you can eat Lebanese in Bath which is fucking incredible

Reminds me when my mum's friend asked her to a Lebanese restaurant.

Now as much as I love her, mum is not the sharpest tool in the box and she thought it meant a lesbian restaurant, they didn't speak for weeks!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

although I do prefer freshly fried fish and chips from a decent chippy.

No point in eating any other kind!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Now as much as I love her, mum is not the sharpest tool in the box and she thought it meant a lesbian restaurant, they didn't speak for weeks!

That is hilarious

 

[mattie]

^^^ that sounds much better.

There's an all you can eat Lebanese in Bath which is fucking incredible

Where's that? Not the one upstairs in the podium?

 

[cesare]

Reminds me when my mum's friend asked her to a Lebanese restaurant.

Now as much as I love her, mum is not the sharpest tool in the box and she thought it meant a lesbian restaurant, they didn't speak for weeks!

 

[Boycey]

Reminds me when my mum's friend asked her to a Lebanese restaurant.

Now as much as I love her, mum is not the sharpest tool in the box and she thought it meant a lesbian restaurant, they didn't speak for weeks!

was it specifically an all you can eat lesbian restaurant your mum was worried about or just lesbian restaurants in general?

 

[tarannau]

PO's mum has stolen that joke from Kath and Kim and I claim my five pounds!

 

[Corax]

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.

It's PC gone MAD I tells ya!!!

 

[tarannau]

Traditional cultural fare my arse.

A selection of cheap sausages, deep fried Cpt Birdseye bits, a mountain of chips and three tons of ketchup do not a national culture make.

There are many things that can be levelled at Taybarns, but even they don't claim that they're trying to offer a taste of traditional Blighty on a plate. It's more like an Americanized buffet with easy prepared food from a variety of big multinationals.

 

[Maggot]

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.

I went to a Chinese all-you-can-eat. If you had any food left on your plate, you got charged extra. A good way of cutting down on waste.

 

[Corax]

Tayburn's website's a hideous orange monstrosity that takes about 3 years to load for no good reason at all too.

 

[PacificOcean]

PO's mum has stolen that joke from Kath and Kim and I claim my five pounds!

Really?

Well it was 1999 when it happened to her and to be fair to Kath and Kim, it's quite an obvious joke - though she was deadly serious.

 

[Ceej]

I went to a Chinese all-you-can-eat. If you had any food left on your plate, you got charged extra. A good way of cutting down on waste.

There's one of these in Camden Lock - an extra tenner for 'excessive waste'. They have no bins, and the staff have to collect your plate - they fix you with a stern stare and watch you squirm when you try and tell them you thought the dim sum was veggie, and you weren't really wasting them....seems to do the trick on people taking the piss.

Some people really do load up though!

 

[Madusa]

Hells yeah would I go to a chip shop buffet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldnt eat for days just to go and get stuffed! I love AYCE buffets.

AND when I lived in London, I'd order pizzas online whenever i'd order pizzas cos i didnt want to speak to anyone over the phone.

 

[Onket]

Hells yeah would I go to a chip shop buffet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldnt eat for days just to go and get stuffed! I love AYCE buffets.

AND when I lived in London, I'd order pizzas online whenever i'd order pizzas cos i didnt want to speak to anyone over the phone.

At last, a sensible answer.

 

[Madusa]

you know the score onket. take me to a chip shop buffet? Strongbow supers for afters?

 

[Onket]

you know the score onket. take me to a chip shop buffet? Strongbow supers for afters?

Perfect. Except we'd have to go to Coventry.

 

[TopCat]

We need this in London. I would have gone every week when I was a courier.

 

[Maggot]

Perfect. Except we'd have to go to Coventry.

No you wouldn't.

There are Taybarns branches in Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Barnsley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Coventry, Swansea and Wigan.