Greedy sod.

[postman]

Postman and Mrs Postman have been away at Hothorpe Hall and the Woodlands.What a fantastic break.Beautiful building,superb room,very large soft bed.I had a wonderful sleep.Fantastic friends also.But the food oh my loads of it, a choice of three courses at each sitting. plus two choices of sweet plus the third choice,a cheeseboard,which i did not take up the offer.help yourself and i did.Unlimited Latte coffee anytime and there was always a board of cakes and bits on the bar,to nibble if you felt peckish.Well me i am just a glutton when it comes to cake,cakes,biccies,chocolate at that.Well today i have paid the price for my gluttony i have had two acxid reflux attacks.Crying out loud.The burning the soreness the vile taste.But it serves me right.But oh boy what a place what a stay.

 

[TheDoctor]

If you avoid all the nice stuff you might not live longer, but it'll certainly feel that way...

 

[NorthernDave]

Postman and Mrs Postman have been away at Hothorpe Hall and the Woodlands.What a fantastic break.Beautiful building,superb room,very large soft bed.I had a wonderful sleep.Fantastic friends also.But the food oh my loads of it, a choice of three courses at each sitting. plus two choices of sweet plus the third choice,a cheeseboard,which i did not take up the offer.help yourself and i did.Unlimited Latte coffee anytime and there was always a board of cakes and bits on the bar,to nibble if you felt peckish.Well me i am just a glutton when it comes to cake,cakes,biccies,chocolate at that.Well today i have paid the price for my gluttony i have had two acxid reflux attacks.Crying out loud.The burning the soreness the vile taste.But it serves me right.But oh boy what a place what a stay.

We all deserve a treat from time to time, so why not? Glad you enjoyed the break.

A group of us went to an "all you can eat" Chinese buffet a while back.
After an hour or so the manager came over and pointed out it was an offer, not a challenge...

 

[fossyant]

Went out last night with family and two of us weren't well later in the evening as we ate too much too late in the evening.

Fine this morning. Can't leave a full plate.

 

[TheDoctor]

A long long time ago...
A few friends and I were booked on the Sally Line ferry from Ramsgate. They changed our sailing time, and gave us free tickets to the all you can eat buffet to make up for the change.
This buffet had two options - a dearer one to include the carvery, but they gave us the cheaper one. No chicken, roast potatoes and Yorkshire's for us.
Handy Hint.
Three cyclists can get through a devastating amount of smoked salmon.

 

[slowmotion]

Many years ago, my girlfriend suggested that we go for afternoon tea at Harrods. I quite like scones and cream but I'm not particularly wild about cakes, biscuits and sticky buns. It was an "all you can eat" buffet deal, and I was gobsmacked by the amount of stuff that kids and grown-ups were heaping onto their plates, looking faintly shifty. Forty five minutes later they all looked distinctly queasy.

 

[vernon]

Five or six years ago in Amsterdam, I visited a coffee house after having a generously proportioned Indonesian three course meal. I then went on to have a three course Greek meal, a large dutch pancake with a mountain of ice cream, had six Cornettos back at the hostel because I was fascinated by the dispensing mechanism and then, to counter the sweetness, proceeded to empty the vending machine of paprika crisps.

I couldn't face breakfast on the ferry from Ijmuiden to Newcastle the next morning....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Yes I remember a family member and his friends going into a cafe where they had a breakfast that was free if you could finish it, five out of the 6 finished the breakfast and the cafe owner banned them.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Our party of two couples stayed overnight at a great hostelry in Hoch Fugen, Austria.
The evening meal was absolutely superb and plenty of it - the kind of meal that's so nice you can't stop eating although you're past full.
10 minutes after we'd all finished, the proprietor came over to us (all stretched out on big sofas looking decidedly uncomfortable).
He gave us all a glass from a tray of schnapps and recommended we downed them in one.
Literally within one minute all the discomfort had gone.
Nowadays, our household is never without schnapps or grappa.
Sliwowitz is my favourite tipple to ease that overfull feeling.

 

[Globalti]

Does it work by anaesthetising the stomach, do you think?

 

[Oldfentiger]

Does it work by anaesthetising the stomach, do you think?

Probably a combination of that and a pickling process

 

[Globalti]

Interestingly yesterday my cycling buddy, who is a gastro-enterologist, was telling me over coffee and cakes that the human bowel doesn't have pain receptors, so you can take biopsies or cuaterise leaks and the patient doesn't feel any pain. However the bowel is very sensitive to stretching, an evolutionary and survival thing that gives warning of blockages, which explains why trapped wind can be so uncomfortable. He was talking about the slight explosion risk when cauterising a bowel that has been inflated with air when there's methane presesent, which is why they tend to use CO2 in preference. CO2 is also more readily absorbed through the bowel wall than air.

Another coffee-shop revelation is that the human rectum is well equipped with sensitive nerves that allow the brain to know the difference between solid, liquid and gaseous contents. Usually.

 

[Dave7]

We all deserve a treat from time to time, so why not? Glad you enjoyed the break.

A group of us went to an "all you can eat" Chinese buffet a while back.
After an hour or so the manager came over and pointed out it was an offer, not a challenge...

Our "local" and only Chinese buffet is excellent in quality & quantity but they were forced to put signs on each table saying there would be a "wastage charge" applied......sad that they were forced to do that.