Gig103: I was more interested in the last couple lines:

Brian Wansink and colleagues at the Food and Brand Laboratory at Cornell University noticed that people with a high body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity - sit on average 16ft closer to a buffet than those with an average BMI.
They also found that 71 per cent of overweight people sit facing the food, compared to around 26 per cent of people of average weight.

That was the icing on the cake for that article.
I enjoyed the diagram for building the salad bowl. There is something about buffets that will turn people into animals.

I used to do this sort of thing, but my ingenuity was limited to making the bowl bigger by using whole lettuce leaves. Works pretty well... if you like salad at the Pizza place.

A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.



/Giggity

A local grocery store has a Hot Wok deal, where you pile up the food in a bowl, and they cook it for you. With careful work tofu cubes can become load bearing structures.

No Ric Romero mention? From 2006:

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I propose a better rule. A patron can fill up his bowl as high as he wants, but everything uneaten at that sitting will be puréed into a mush that will be force fed down his throat.

Wii.Tard: A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.
/Giggity

The mall place is a rip. The actual restaurants are buffet pricing, generally not much more expensive than the mall food(plus the ones I've been to have a small chinese buffet too)

Way to ruin the salad bar for everyone, assclown. Surely the proprietors of such establishments won't simply raise the price if this catches on.

R.A.Danny: Wii.Tard: A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.



/Giggity

You can go back as much as you want there

Not at the mall food court. :(

bhcompy: Wii.Tard: A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.
/Giggity

The mall place is a rip. The actual restaurants are buffet pricing, generally not much more expensive than the mall food(plus the ones I've been to have a small chinese buffet too)

It's been like 7 years since I've been there. Total rip.

This is reason number two why I love Vegas. Great buffets cheap and yes I did gain weight when I moved here. The employee dining in the casinos is just as good as the buffets.

holy fark just buy a bag of mixed greens and carrot sticks at a grocery store

Meh - Asians have been doing this for years. I'm sure teh googles can find the article I'm thinking about but I've been drinking and Transporter 3 is on.

/kinda want to nail that Russian broad with the freckles in it

ad: This is reason number two why I love Vegas. Great buffets cheap and yes I did gain weight when I moved here. The employee dining in the casinos is just as good as the buffets.

Last time I was there with family, we worked out that if you went at the later end of the breakfast buffet, you could hang on until they started putting out the lunch stuff and finish your morning meal with cheesecake. After three days of this I felt so ill I left them to if and went to pick up an orange juice and a sandwich somewhere else.


(I am fatter than they are, perhaps they exercised some sort of portion control I was missing out on, but I just couldn't face it.)

Back in the day, when I was young and Wendy's had just started their salad bar (late 80's? Hell, early 80's, I think) I worked at the place and by golly I was run ragged keeping that slaad bar stocked at lunch time. No way they made any money; people ate and ate and ate. I guess that's why you rarely see a salad bar these days, except maybe ruby tuesday, where they charge you enough to make it worthwhile.
I love a chinese buffet. I probably eat less than if I ordered a set dinner. I just choose the few things I really like, and have two small plates of those things. I like it because I can decide what I would like to eat that day!
Love me some crab rangoon, although it really seems to be cream cheese in fried pastry, rather than crab anything.

What someone who devotes time to developing such a strategy might look like

Maybe I'm dating myself, but I remember back when Pizza Hut had an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for $4.99. And that included pizza, bread sticks, whatever. To hell with all that salad.

GAT_00: How farking desperate do you have to be to devise a strategy to maximize your salad at Pizza Hut? I can't decide how the Daily Fail managed to think this up, so this might actually be real.

Apparently so common in China that Pizza Hut has yanked all salad bars from their Chinese locations to prevent this sort of thing.

I got REALLY good at this sort of thing when I was an undergrad at a state uni, having essentially NO money.

"No Sir. Please don't remove the stream tray sir!"

/Another option would simply be to dump everything in the lettuce serving bowl and bring it to your table.

xl5150: What someone who devotes time to developing such a strategy might look like

Game, set, and match!

Wii.Tard: A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.

/Giggity

Pressing down on the meat is also a good way to get kicked out of the library.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: FTA: Pizza Huts in China have put a stop to the craze by removing all the salad bars in restaurants

Well who didn't see that coming? You want more food without spending more money? Eat at home. Don't devise ways to ruin eating at restaurants for the rest of us.

Growing up we had one of our local restaurants do away with their all you can eat Friday night fish fry. Why? They found a woman who had put plastic liners in her purse, which she kept on her lap, and repeatedly put the fish that was brought out in her purse and then asked for more. Best damn fish fry in town, gone. All because of one thieving biatch.

/Don't knock the Friday night fish fry
//It's a WI thing and we hold it dear

It's a catholic thing, and you will find it any place that has a VFW and enough catholics.

'MURICA

/ Oh, wait...

Nate Silver's salad bar strategy. (FiveThirtyEight guy) Go for the bacon bits. (new window) Helpful pics.

GAT_00: How farking desperate do you have to be to devise a strategy to maximize your salad at Pizza Hut? I can't decide how the Daily Fail managed to think this up, so this might actually be real.

it's real alright. this is what people in china do because they are tight dicks who only think about thier own gratification. sort of like americans.

Are there any buffets that actually serve edible food? They always taste like cafeteria mash no matter where I go.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: FTA: Pizza Huts in China have put a stop to the craze by removing all the salad bars in restaurants

Well who didn't see that coming? You want more food without spending more money? Eat at home. Don't devise ways to ruin eating at restaurants for the rest of us.

Growing up we had one of our local restaurants do away with their all you can eat Friday night fish fry. Why? They found a woman who had put plastic liners in her purse, which she kept on her lap, and repeatedly put the fish that was brought out in her purse and then asked for more. Best damn fish fry in town, gone. All because of one thieving biatch.

/Don't knock the Friday night fish fry
//It's a WI thing and we hold it dear

Seriously. I moved to Wisconsin last year, and EVERY place has friday night fish fry, even the bowling alley. wtf is wrong with you people? most of the fish fry places SUCK. I'm scared to even TRY the bowling alley's.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: FTA: Pizza Huts in China have put a stop to the craze by removing all the salad bars in restaurants

Well who didn't see that coming? You want more food without spending more money? Eat at home. Don't devise ways to ruin eating at restaurants for the rest of us.

Growing up we had one of our local restaurants do away with their all you can eat Friday night fish fry. Why? They found a woman who had put plastic liners in her purse, which she kept on her lap, and repeatedly put the fish that was brought out in her purse and then asked for more. Best damn fish fry in town, gone. All because of one thieving biatch.

/Don't knock the Friday night fish fry
//It's a WI thing and we hold it dear

I can remember my grandparents going to the fish fry at the VA for take-out on Fridays when I was a kid. They'd have whole channel cat, fries, and hush puppies. Granddad and I would eat a sandwich. He was trying to stay away from fried stuff (died too young of a congenital heart problem, anyhow) and I can't stand the thought of eating a catfish because I know what they eat.

So, every year a bunch of people voluntarily join the Sex Offenders list?

WoW.... No wonder they have that law. More numbers is more money.

DingleberryMoose: VAVFW
FTFM, dammit.

buckler: bhcompy: Wii.Tard: A friend and I used to go to Mongolian BBQ at the mall and press the meat down into the bottom of the bowl so we'd get like 1 lb of meat per bowl. The owners put up a sign later on asking customer to not press the meat.
/Giggity

The mall place is a rip. The actual restaurants are buffet pricing, generally not much more expensive than the mall food(plus the ones I've been to have a small chinese buffet too)

I was about to make that point once I noticed "at the mall". Most independent Mongolian BBQ places I've been to are all-you-can-eat affairs, so you get a little beef, a little chicken, a little pork, whatever veggies, and infinite sauce combinations.

I worked at a BD's Mongolian BBQ in university as a cook. Nothing makes people look like more of a dumbass then mixing seafood and beef or chicken. Good luck with that salmonella smart guy. The signs say don't mix your meat and they're pretty accurate. Also don't tip and acting like a douche? Enjoy the grill shiat I "accidentally" hide in your food. Surprising how easy it is to pull crap from the garbage bin and insert it back onto the grill right in front of an audience. But that job was great in college - ate like a champ for free every day.

/started bartending after a year and it really was the best job ever
//waitresses there were smoking hot and whorish

This article sounds fat.

buckler: QifutuWahuta: Seriously. I moved to Wisconsin last year, and EVERY place has friday night fish fry, even the bowling alley. wtf is wrong with you people? most of the fish fry places SUCK. I'm scared to even TRY the bowling alley's.

Yeah, the local strip club has a $7.00 full ribeye steak dinner, but that just scares the hell out of me.

Steak's fine, avoid the blue waffles.

detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: I worked at a BD's Mongolian BBQ in university as a cook. Nothing makes people look like more of a dumbass then mixing seafood and beef or chicken. Good luck with that salmonella smart guy.

Yeah, because it's not like you were going to cook it or anything. You trolling or stupid?

YOU GO NOW!!! YOU HERE FOUR OWA!!

I love salad bars.
There, I said it.
Never been to Sweet Tomatoes but willing to try it. All salad - no meat.
Suck it haters.

/anyone wanna do lunch?

michaelkristopeit: at this altitude i can run for a half mile flat out before my hands start shaking.

I don't get it....what does Matt Damon have to do with this?