'Hearty eater' says buffet banned him

[ChoralScholar]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_fe_st/odd_buffet_ban_3;_ylt=Avg8l3QFyJt_PLZI5Ji.0hcE1vAI

HOUMA, La. - A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they're hearty eaters. A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.

Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.

On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.

"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_fe_st/odd_buffet_ban_3;_ylt=Avg8l3QFyJt_PLZI5Ji.0hcE1vAI

[redqueen]

1. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet?

They're going to have to end it for everyone or let him enjoy the same perks as everyone else. The stupid... it hurts.

[dembotoz]

2. remember the titans

in the scene where the restaurant stops doing the all you can eat special when the football team keeps showing up.

this could be a very funny thing for a movie.

i would always chuckle when my youngest son would get a children's discount at a buffet and then our eat the rest of us.

[qb]

3. lots of comments here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2575171

[ChoralScholar]

17. I swear to God I searched for it.... EOM

[Deja Q]

4. Didn't "The Simpsons" parody such a routine some 10 years ago?

Like how "The Critic", some 17 years ago, also parodied the idea of Disney movies becoming stage plays?

[GOPisEvil]

5. Was it a Chinese buffet?

:7

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TdwuiyO7hOU

[KitchenWitch]

6. Were there asian woodcarvers?

[GOPisEvil]

7. I am NOTgoing there.

Just referencing the bit by John Pinette. Promise. :)

[KitchenWitch]

10. Chicken!

:P

[GOPisEvil]

12. Not even cornflake-breaded.

:D

[DS1]

13. mmmm. battered breasts

[texas1928]

14. OH NICE...

Now you are are sponsoring abuse.


SHEEESH




:P

[DS1]

15. battered blue

cheese


yummo

[texas1928]

16. So that is what you are into...

PERV

[DS1]

8. Hearty eating is anything but good for your heart

and three times a week? Fucking hell!

[datasuspect]

9. he eat out of spite

[hippywife]

11. I think they

meant "hardy" eater, did they not? Reminds me of comedian, John Pinette's sketch about the Chinese buffet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAkXPpBnSkM&feature=related