Reply #11: Stupid

[ForrestGump]

If it's all-you-can-eat, then it's ALL you can eat. If you can eat half a cow, good for you.

If it's NOT all-you-can-eat, then that should be made clear...it sounds like the management wasn't put off by people making return visits to the buffet, so how're the patrons to know where the line is? I'd certainly assume that a buffet (these days, in the US) is all-you-can-eat -- or its more genteel cousin, 'all-you-care-to-eat' -- unless a sign or whatever tells me otherwise.

Even the manager admits that there's no written policy regarding what customers can and canot eat, and you know how Americans are about having a written set of rules (the Constitution, before Ashcroft got to it). Their reserving the right to refuse service to buffet-abusers is more than vague. In fact, I hate to even imagine the kind of perversions that buffet abusers might, at this very moment, be perpetrating at feeding troughs across this great nation. I'd skip the ambrosia, if I were you.

Regardless of the value and wisdom of the Atkins diet, dubious at best, I think that these people made a pretty reasonable assumption. Their choice of victuals doesn't thrill me, but I'd defend to the death their right to load plates, until they prise the corn dog from my cold, dead fingers.