On Sunday, September 22, 2013 5:48:35 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 08:52:00 +0100, Ophelia wrote:
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> >>>> Heaven is a huge supermarket that has every ingredient and food in the
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> >>>> world, past and present. And it has a bunch of plush electric carts
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> >>>> to terrorize Julie. But she will enjoy it because it's heaven.
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> >>> So what can we expect in t'other place?
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> >> McDonalds and Golden Corral.
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> > Oh lawdy ... how to decide ??? I've never seen a Golden Corral but I take
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> > it that it is similar to McDonalds? I've only ever eaten at McD's once.
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> > It was the first and last time. Oooh just looked them up! Are the
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> > serving Real Food???
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> Not at all similar. Gold Corral is an all you can eat buffet. They have
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> some good choices and some bad. Their salad bar is one of the better ones.
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> Although salad bars are becoming rare here. I have been told that the
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> desserts look good but don't taste good. I never tried them. We do not
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> have one near here so have only eaten there perhaps 10 times in my life, if
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> My objections to it are these... The the food can get very sloppy at times.
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> Meaning that someone drops some other kind of food into the food that you
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> might want. And they don't come around and clean it up very often. And you
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> might get something that is good the first time around but when they refill
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> it, it isn't. Such as the strawberries that I got last time. I took three
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> only because they are often not good. But these were quite good! So I went
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> back for more and those were pretty flavorless except for being sour. The
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> place also seems to attract a piggish sort of person. Not everyone who eats
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> there is like this of course. But a lot are. You see them going back again
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> and again and again. Piles of plates. Piles of chicken bones and sometimes
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> people commenting that they want to eat until stuffed and then some. That
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> is kind of off-putting to me.
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> When we go, we get a plate of salad and another of food. Granted the plates
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> they give you are smaller than a typical dinner plate. I might go back
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> again only if I really liked something or they were out of something that I
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> wanted the first time through. But... If I do go back, that is never a
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> full plate. I might take a potato or some green beans. Almost always just
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> the one thing. But our meal the last time was not all that good and they
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> have raised their prices so it is not likely that we'll go back. I think I
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> wound up paying around $20 per person including drink. And there is just no
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> way that we eat that amount of food. The types of meals we normally order
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> in a restaurant typically run anywhere from $6-12 per person. My husband's
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> meals are often more because he gets meat. Daughter and I typically have
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> soup or salad or some vegetable sides.

If you and your daughter eat the way you claim you do, I find it hard to understand why you're both fat slobs. By the way, have you guys finally settled on what you're allergic to/intolerant to/don't like? Or is it still flavor of the month?