If there’s one thing that saddens me, it’s America’s ongoing battle with obesity. I’m too lazy to look up exact numbers, but I know both childhood and adult obesity levels are through the roof and don’t show any signs of slowing. People can cite scapegoats all they want (”It’s the big bad media brainwashing me into eating those 6 Double Cheeseburgers!”) but at the end of the day it’s all about discipline; and most people’s incredible lack thereof.
I’m proud to say the entire UM staff is a relatively fit bunch, and for that reason, finding an article with quotes as hilarious as this one need to be shared.
Enter (if you have a double wide door available) 265 lbs Ricky Labit. Former off-shore worker, current THREE TIME A WEEK all-you-can-eat-buffet diner, and now reluctant hero to hugeaholics everywhere.
After apparently being charged twice the normal price for a recent romp through the buffet aisles, Labit’s waitress was kind enough to explain the surcharge:
“She says, ‘Y’all fat, and y’all eat too much,’”
Labit and his dining partner Michael Borrelli were incensed:
“I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain’t that fat, I only weigh 277,” Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he a had a “baby in the belly.”
Eventually, the management comped both meals to avoid charges of discrimination, although the two will not be welcomed back at that particular buffet.
Hungry hungry hippos indeed.
Read more via MSNBC
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speaking of buffets…in argentina, you have to finish all the food on your plate before you can go up to the buffet line again. if you do not, they charge you extra. each buffet restaurant we went to had signs noting this rule. weird…..
That sucks!! I can’t stand too much food on a plate at one time, and I don’t want to have to/can’t eat something I don’t like. That rule would insure I never ate at those places. Who do they think they are they anyway, your parents? I love to ‘graze’ buffets, not to stuff myself overly-full, simply to taste a bit of whatever looks good, (which doesn’t mean it IS good.)
This country really does need to institute a “fat tax”. This would apply to airline tickets, gas purchases (driver’s licenses tied to credit cards) and of course food. Groceries, restaurants and even carnivals or anywhere else food is served/sold. I don’t believe in changing the laws to force people to be a certain way, but we’ve taxed the hell out of gambling, cigarettes, and alcohol and it might have curbed *some* consumption, but not all of it and the powers that be have made money off of the peoples’ choice. We could do this with weed and prostitution as well and ease the burden on our prison system, but a “free” country, this is NOT! That being said, those who take MORE than an equal share of our society (more fabric for clothes, gas for cars, food from buffets, etc.) should be taxed accordingly.
Ben: Amen brutha! I’d add a few more things to the ‘legalize and tax it’ list but I’m Libertarian to the core
Caroline; too true about the ‘looks good.. but IS it good?’ question. Just ask Greg about Las Vegas Hilton Buffet ‘pancakes’.