The Horror of the Breakfast Buffet
Fresh crab legs and chocolate fountains: an extensive buffet certainly has its advantages. But then again, you know what they say: “every advantage has its disadvantage”. And so does the buffet. FavorFlav Marcus hasn’t had a single bad buffet experience, but then again, he only has breakfast at luxury hotels. If, like us, you also count yourself among the common people, you’ll probably recognize this…
Adeline: ”I once spent a long weekend in Luxembourg. Lovely little hotel, mouthwateringly delicious chateaubriand, and then we went to have breakfast. I was looking forward to a boiled egg (yes, egg talk again), so good on my hastily assembled healthy sandwich. I peeled and peeled, and all at once the egg spilled out over my breakfast plate. So soft, so gross, so almost raw. I’ve never eaten a boiled egg at a buffet again unless there’s a boiled indication next to it.”
Sharon: “People who pile on far too much food and then eat half of it. A croissant end, a knife-tip of butter, and half a slice of cake. After which everything gets thrown away. Not by themselves, no, they let someone else do it. Hello, ever heard of no waste? I can’t stand it. Such a shame, because going on a cruise sounds wonderful to me, but I fear the very worst there—and then three times a day. Oh, and parents who let their children serve themselves (read: little hands in jars of muesli and picking things up and putting them back) — also a buffet irritation.”
Sabina: “On the first day of my holiday in Spain, I took a slice of the chocolate cake from the buffet: it was pretty stale. Day two: the same cake. Day three: is that really the same cake? So I (yes, I know, not very nice) stuck a toothpick between slices eight and nine. Day four: the toothpick was still there. Day five, six, seven… you get the idea. Then we went home. Ever since, I’ve never booked a package holiday again.”
Delilah: “People who thoroughly fill Kaiser rolls with ham and cheese at the breakfast buffet, sometimes as many as three per person, only to wrap them in a napkin and then slip them into their backpacks to take with them. Why? Yes, I know the answer to that too. But I’m against it.”
Steffi: “Is it just me, or is the direction at a buffet almost always unclear? For some reason, the plates and cutlery are always on the right and you’re supposed to work your way to the left, but then there are hot chafing dishes with plates next to them, and somewhere in the middle everything goes wrong.”
Lauretta: “The all-you-can-eat buffet at the hotel where I stayed during my graduation trip was an outright nightmare. Okay, it was a cheap hotel — at the time, I preferred spending my money on ‘cocktails’ instead of a good hotel. So it was to be expected that the buffet would be disappointing, but the half-cooked chicken with spaghetti boiled to mush was truly disgusting. To me, at least; the dozens of flies seemed to love it.”
Read also:
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