Thanksgiving Dinner

[KPB]

Originally Posted by Concert D Major

Which ones are all you can eat buffets? Seems like most places charge an awful lot but then only give you one plate. For the high prices, they should be buffets. Any recommendations for a buffet? And hopefully something better than G*lden Corr*l.

Best buffet I've eaten at. Youll never want to go to another buffet after you eat here.
Fred from Buddy Freddys restaraunt opened this place Fred's Market - Slow food, FAST

[dothetwist]

Buffets....ewwwww!!

A friend of mine was an Environmental Health worker. He said buffets are dangerous (not the food per se, but the common utensils).

Here's a recent article about the same issue:


Bacterial Buffet: All-You-Can-Eat Illness
BY SYDNEY ROSS SINGER | APRIL 23, 2015

(This article by Sydney Ross Singer was originally posted on his blog April 21, 2015, and is reposted with his permission.)

Disease prevention specialists warn against shaking hands as a form of greeting since this is a common way people spread disease. Eating at a buffet exposes people to the hands of everyone who came to the restaurant and touched the common serving utensils. It’s like shaking everyone’s hands in the restaurant. Diarrhea, anyone? Or perhaps the flu?

Buffets are popular for being self-serve and all you can eat. You can even rummage through each serving platter to select your favorite parts. Unfortunately, the spoon or tong you are using to help yourself is the same spoon hundreds of other hungry people used to get their food. Some of these people just went to the bathroom in the restaurant and did not wash their hands. Others just coughed or sneezed into their hand or blew their noses because of a cold or flu. And few, if any, washed their hands before grabbing the same serving spoon you just grabbed. Then you use your hands to eat, introducing buffet-borne bacteria and viruses into your body.

It’s enough to make you sick, and it often does.

Food safety officials are concerned about contamination of the buffet food, which is why there is a sneeze guard covering the buffet items. Regulations require that utensils used in food preparation be changed every 4 hours. And if the serving utensils fall into the food, especially the handle, the entire platter of food must be discarded.

But regulations do not address the serving spoons and tongs as vectors of disease from public handling.

Of course, there are other things we all touch that can spread disease, such as door and faucet handles, especially in public bathrooms. But when you have these exposures in a place where you eat, there is an increased risk of disease transmission.

[BucFan]

Originally Posted by Concert D Major

Which ones are all you can eat buffets? Seems like most places charge an awful lot but then only give you one plate. For the high prices, they should be buffets. Any recommendations for a buffet? And hopefully something better than G*lden Corr*l.

I don't really have enough discipline or buffets - always want to get my money's worth. Usually I only visit Asian buffets with sushi and hoard up on sushi since I don't get a chance to partake in that much. We have decent one down in Apollo Beach that I like (Asian Fusion). During my many years in Germny we would partake in great Chinese food for T-giving meal. Yum Yum!

[Sunscape]

A cruise for dinner, sounds good for those that like this type of experience:

Yacht StarShip Dining Cruises