http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_7864104

Oink! Oink! Chow down that buffet food fatties.

Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. "I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he a had a "baby in the belly."

i'd hate to be down stream from him! :eek:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_7864104

Oink! Oink! Chow down that buffet food fatties.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when Homer sued the so-called all you can eat restaurant. Again with the fat people. PO here we come. :rolleyes:

I always wondered why BJ talked about that buffet all the time.....:eek:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_7864104

Oink! Oink! Chow down that buffet food fatties.

Dang. Wow. That's incredible.

And this is why I don't watch the morning/evening news...

It IS "all you can eat". Seems (even tho they're chubbers) that they DO have a point.

"You been here four hours. You go home now!"

I saw this article earlier and almost posted it but then I've started a couple threads today and didn't want to get carried away. His BMI is 34.6 (I know BMI isn't the best) but 34.6 and he thinks is isn't that fat?

I gave up buffets for bikes.

It IS "all you can eat". Seems (even tho they're chubbers) that they DO have a point.
Absolutely. Hearty eaters? That's what f**king buffets are for.

Extra $10 for expensive seafood dish like frog legs?
It's been a while since I took a biology class but the frog is from the sea?
And I bet it tastes like chicken.....:D

I watched that documentary about the 900 lb woman from Austin last night. It was insane. She could not even role over or sit up. So big it was sickening.

Lots of super-morbidy-obese people in the States.

They showed one guy who was 980 lb. He had to be cut out of his house (too wide for the doors), and a block & tackle/crane used to pull him. Incredible! Gross! People eating themselves back into a helpless infantile state.

Now is the time to buy stock in companies which make motorised wheelchairs for obese people. It is becoming a more common sight...and a new disability.

Personally I believe these wheelchairs should be GPS tagged so they shutdown within 50 ft of a burger joint or donut shop, and a siren comes on with a computer voice declaring that said dangerously obese person should not be fed by law. But that is just IMHO :). Better still they should be old skool arm powered ones, seems kind of self-defeating to put morbidly-obsese individuals on something which will only inhibit their calorific expediture I think?

It pains me to actually admit that I live in the same city that this happened, although for some reason it doesn't surprise me that it did happen. I'm not sure if y'all were able to see photos. They were picketing the restaurant with their child in tow. You should've seen their interview with our local tv station. I couldn't stop laughing and crying (all at the same time).

Interesting side note. The day that story hit the local newspaper it was on the front page (obviously slow news day), but, it also shared front page space about a guy who was serving time for failure to register as a sex offender. The story talked about him having to have his "member" removed while in jail because he had penis cancer. All on the same page. I couldn't make this stuff up.

I was just reading that there is a strong correlation between obesity and low income: poor people tend to be obese...

...which is ironic because not so long ago, a 'healthy' body weight was a sign of wealth...and status.

I see nothing wrong with banning the obese from buffets. Airlines make the very obese buy two tickets and use two seats.

I can't even comprehend "I ain't fat, I only weigh 277."
It's... DAMN. I feel fat at 160 pounds...

I can't even comprehend "I ain't fat, I only weigh 277."
It's... DAMN. I feel fat at 160 pounds...

I like the part about how the waitress said he looked like he had a baby in his tummy. :rolleyes::D

....has to be done.

....has to be done.
HAHAHA OWNED

I can't even comprehend "I ain't fat, I only weigh 277."
It's... DAMN. I feel fat at 160 pounds...

277 is the new 160.

277 is the new 160.
You know, that rings scarily true, considering that a lot of WWI GIs were around 130 pounds at 5'8... And I'm 5'10 at 160lb, and 'tiny' according to most of my classmates... and I'm roughly the same age as they were. We just keep getting bigger. Maybe the upward growth stopped and the outward growth began...

You know, that rings scarily true, considering that a lot of WWI GIs were around 130 pounds at 5'8... And I'm 5'10 at 160lb, and 'tiny' according to most of my classmates... and I'm roughly the same age as they were. We just keep getting bigger. Maybe the upward growth stopped and the outward growth began...
Back in the 1910s, however, it was often difficult for the working poor to get enough calories. The western world, as rydster pointed out, it upside down now.

Since you're even younger than me (I'm 10 years out of high school), you see people inch wider and wider with age.

I was just reading that there is a strong correlation between obesity and low income: poor people tend to be obese...

...which is ironic because not so long ago, a 'healthy' body weight was a sign of wealth...and status.

it's somewhat easy to understand. Good, healthy food costs more. You buy fresh vegetables, say like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and they cost more than a box of hamburger helper and a pound of hamburger, boxes of mac and cheese, or any other pre-packaged food you can think of. a lot of that fatty junk food comes cheaper. let alone a meal at a fast food place.

so poorer people buy the cheap crap that loaded with fat, cholesterol and whatnot, because that's what they can afford. It costs money to eat healthy.

that said, I don't really consider 6'3" and 265 all that fat. still no reason for him to be a pig at the buffet though.

....has to be done.

why did they put rubber bands on that kids arms??

that said, I don't really consider 6'3" and 265 all that fat. still no reason for him to be a pig at the buffet though.
Really? Maybe not "all that" fat, but you have to concede that it's fat, unless the the guy is a bodubuilder, which I doubt.

It costs money to eat healthy.

I agree but fatness isn't associated with low socio-economic status because they eat "low-quality" foods it's because they eat too much of the "bad" food not too little "healthy" foods.

The simple state of affairs in the US is that food is now so cheap and habitual activity so low that for most people without a conscientious effort to either limit calories or exercise or both many people will end up overweight or obese.

I would bet that money has less to do with folks of lower socioeconomic status being more likely to be overweight, eat healthy and exercise than attitude. E.g. if money was much of an explanation then it wouldn't be the case that lower socioeconomic folks are more likely to smoke than folks up the social ladder.

Really? Maybe not "all that" fat, but you have to concede that it's fat, unless the the guy is a bodubuilder, which I doubt.

He's well into the obese category (>30 BMI) and about half-way between overweight and morbidly obese.

Really? Maybe not "all that" fat, but you have to concede that it's fat, unless the the guy is a bodubuilder, which I doubt.

It ain't all that thin either--I'm 6'2" and weigh about 205 now. I think my body fat is around 16-17% at present. That guy must have most of his weight in his gut. Picture me with a 60 pound keg around my waist.

Right now, I weigh about 198, maybe 195, I am 6'1.5" tall. About oh gee, 10 years ago, I weighed 305+. I got kicked out of 5 count them 5 ALL YOU CAN EAT places.:D

At Chesapeake Bay Seafood house, I was on my 24th plate :eek: of crab legs and out comes the manager. I had eaten enough. I told him, ahem, its says, ALL YOU CAN EAT...I CAN eat more so bring it on. It got ugly....and the real deal was I got to treat all my buds to a feast on their dime. Regional managers are the bomb.

OK, so, was this guy fat, chubby etc etc. YES :thumbsup: , OH GOD YES :thumbsup: . SO WHAT?:eek:

You make the deal, you say all you CAN EAT......thats a promise you have to keep.

AS LONG AS its crab legs or SUSHI....Oh yeah.....

I saw this article earlier and almost posted it but then I've started a couple threads today and didn't want to get carried away. His BMI is 34.6 (I know BMI isn't the best) but 34.6 and he thinks is isn't that fat?

u think he knows his bmi?

u think he knows his bmi?

His Big Mac Intake...you better bet he knows.

His Big Mac Intake...you better bet he knows.

If he goes to the all you can eat he probably eats enough to tide him over for a couple hours.

it's somewhat easy to understand. Good, healthy food costs more. You buy fresh vegetables, say like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and they cost more than a box of hamburger helper and a pound of hamburger, boxes of mac and cheese, or any other pre-packaged food you can think of. a lot of that fatty junk food comes cheaper. let alone a meal at a fast food place.

so poorer people buy the cheap crap that loaded with fat, cholesterol and whatnot, because that's what they can afford. It costs money to eat healthy.

that said, I don't really consider 6'3" and 265 all that fat. still no reason for him to be a pig at the buffet though.

I see your point, poor quality food is cheap, and filling, but I convinced it is more than just eating junk food that is the problem...volume must be an issue as well. Eating more food..more poor quality food, coupled with a sedentary lifestyle probably helps us understand it better. Add all that to a culture of entitlement, and we are being tolerant and permissive of obesity.

One may ask who benefits as well? Fast food retail and agri-business I would suggest. Sell more volume = more $.

Farmer's have faced the problem of how to maintain their relative income levels, as economies grow since the beginnings of industrialization. People can only eat so much food...we thought at least anyway?!

If he goes to the all you can eat he probably eats enough to tide him over for a couple hours.

After careful consideration, I have thought of a scenario in which the all you can eat could be rescinded.

Unless the person was rude, a thief etc etc Lets consider the following:

The guy comes in. Its all you can eat. He proceeds to eat like 5 people. Gorging himself. His stomach aches, he feels bad, but there he goes more and more food. He stumbles over to the buffet bar. Vomit stained clothes covered with bits of undigested food. He just fills the plate. Wiping the vomit off the plate, he just keeps shovelling. Its a frenzy.. The help mop the floor, they know, this man, this person is NOT DONE. Its ALL YOU CAN EAT.

Then, vomit spurts all over the walls, the floor the table, the waitress ,the nearby customers and he gasps MORE, I MUST HAVE MORE. I have to pack this food into my sweaty cake hole. I must have it. More vomit, gagging and an array of disgusting gagging and wheezing sounds follow. Yeah, at that point, I am thinking its time to cut that one off.

After careful consideration, I have thought of a scenario in which the all you can eat could be rescinded.

Unless the person was rude, a thief etc etc Lets consider the following:

The guy comes in. Its all you can eat. He proceeds to eat like 5 people. Gorging himself. His stomach aches, he feels bad, but there he goes more and more food. He stumbles over to the buffet bar. Vomit stained clothes covered with bits of undigested food. He just fills the plate. Wiping the vomit off the plate, he just keeps shovelling. Its a frenzy.. The help mop the floor, they know, this man, this person is NOT DONE. Its ALL YOU CAN EAT.

Then, vomit spurts all over the walls, the floor the table, the waitress ,the nearby customers and he gasps MORE, I MUST HAVE MORE. I have to pack this food into my sweaty cake hole. I must have it. More vomit, gagging and an array of disgusting gagging and wheezing sounds follow. Yeah, at that point, I am thinking its time to cut that one off.

You know it

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After careful consideration, I have thought of a scenario in which the all you can eat could be rescinded.

Unless the person was rude, a thief etc etc Lets consider the following:

The guy comes in. Its all you can eat. He proceeds to eat like 5 people. Gorging himself. Hios stomach aches, he feel bad, but there he goes more and more food.

Then, vomit spurts all over the walls, the floor the table, and he gasps MORE, I MUST HAVE MORE. I have to pack this food into my sweaty cake hole. I must have it. More vomit, gagging and an array of disgusting gagging and wheezing sounds follow. Yeah, at that point, I am thinking its time to cut that one off.

As starving college students we used to stuff slices of pizza (wrapped in napkins) under our coats when we ate at the local Shakey's buffet. We'd have pizza for later on that night. :rolleyes:

But airlines don't advertise "extra baggage no charge", either. Unless I'm missing something in the translation, "All you can eat" translates, roughly, to "All you can eat".

The obesity problem is unbelieveable in this country, and affecting all facets of life. We have all been somewhere where an uncomfortable situation arose from a person's body weight. I have experienced this at four times in the last month. One was a flight to Chicago, in which the man to my left in the plane was easily three bills sitting in a coach seat. He brought his lunch on the plane with him. Two (2) Pizza Hut Pizzas and a large coke. It was the most uncomfortable flight I have ever been on.

Two days later, I went to a Chicago Symphony concert which was sold out. I asked where my seat was, and the usher looked down and pointed to where it was. It looked like someone was sitting in my seat, so much so that when the usher came down to tell them to leave my seat, he figured out that the seat was open, but the two people on both sides were taking up the room to the point where it was gone. I said to him there was no way I could sit there with my back problem, and that I would pay to upgrade my seat. He took me out and had me talk to the manager. I was extremely embarrassed and felt bad for asking, but his reply was "It happens constantly. Don't worry about it." I ended up a few rows back and am no lying--I could hear the man on the left breathing throughout the entire performance.

6'3"-265 is not that big in relation to your average US citizen. If a buffet says all u can eat, its all u can eat. If they say "All you care to eat", the responsibility is on the client. IMHO, there is no reason why you cannot designate a certain number of trips to the buffet-but it must be advertised that way.

Incidentally, if you watch Discovery channel (I think), they have had a number of shows about people who are beyond morbid obesity. One doctor related a story of a woman he was trying to help and he stated, "the basic number for super morbid obesity is 50. She is a 103 on the same scale." She couldn't move because she thought she had a hernia. It turned out to be a massive fat growth, the name of which I cannot remember. I do remember, however, that this one fat pocket weighed about 30 lbs less than my current body weight. They wanted to do an MRI, but she did not fit and the table couldn't handle her. Our society is slowly outgrowing our facilities, in numerous ways. What some people do to their bodies is insane. And it will get worse before it gets better.

BTW, that above picture of the kid. Sad.:(

It IS "all you can eat". Seems (even tho they're chubbers) that they DO have a point.

Sorry--- sounds more like they were FEEDING than eating.

Still. Was there a sign limiting # of trips? Time of stay? Chubbers gross me out, too, but if you're gonna advertise "all you can eat", you'd better mean it.