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Buffets - all the food eaten?
CloneClown
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I have never known of someone having a buffet for a special gathering and all the food being eaten. There is always loads left which in general gets chucked away due to people generally buying far too much. Have you been to a buffet where it has been completely eaten by the guests or perhaps worse the food running out during it!?
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Those big bowls of congealing coleslaw left untouched while all the chicken legs and breaded prawns vanish always annoy me.
I went back to my table with nothing.
They probably did you a favour. Just think of all the piss stained nicotine fingers crawling over your baps.
I SAY.
At my mother's funeral, there was loads of food left over. The valiant church ladies had it packed up and bicycled round to the local night shelter in about 10 minutes. I think my mother would have liked that.
Cake is cake broken or not
The trick is to anticipate the announcement and be first in line. The wedding I went to last weekend had the opposite problem, about a hundred guests and food for at least five hundred!
There was plenty of food and actually i think there was still some sandwiches left over at the end but this person was acting like they were being starved, doing a whiny voice and hard stares at people.
Yes, I've seen buffets where it's run out - basically a VERY poorly done buffet (or far more guests than specified for).
But generally, at any decently done buffet, there's always far more than enough.
That can be a pain. Normally go for tuna, salmon or cheese cause they're pretty obvious.
Went to one buffet where there was a menu which listed not only all the sandwiches but the allergy information, suitable for vegetarians etc.
I went over the top at a christening...
I wasent a pretty sight next day
Second time was at my friend's son's baptism. There, the food was lovely, there was a decent amount to start with, but people were just being greedy, going up for seconds and thirds without checking that the immediate family had not even eaten firsts as they were mingling with guests. Managed to scrape a few things together on a plate for my friend, who had paid for the do, before the troughers completely anihilated the buffet.
Went to the Chemistry Open Day at York University, when our daughter was looking for places - the buffet was absolutely crap, plenty of it, but pretty well nothing anyone would eat
Normally, at Uni, if there's anything left the students descend on it like a plague of locusts, but even the students wouldn't eat it
My daughter went there, and not only helped at Open Days etc. but was also a student/staff rep. - she continually brought up the problem with serving food no one ate, and 'eventually' (and just once!) they agreed to try some simpler options (such as cheese, ham, tuna). All the simpler options were eaten, everything else was left - as usual - yet that was the only time they tried the simpler option.
My theory is that the food is made by the catering students, and it's part of their course - so they have to do stupid 'posh' food that no one eats to get a good mark
Everyone was looking pained and embarrassed- no bread either!
All I had was some tomatoes and kiwi fruits.Cue an early leave and detour for Burger King- we were starving!
Pfft.. when that happens, there's never any custard!
The lads in my office are like vultures. The second the guest have been escorted to the lifts, they swoop in and demolish the leftovers in seconds