The slippery slope

For those of you who don't know what the Golden Corral is, don't guess, you will probably be wrong and I don't want to have to ask where you came up with that guess. As if McDonalds wasn't bad enough today. As I found out today via in person visit and email from my sister, Garretts popcorn is gone. I don't understand how that place is gone as you had to wait over an hour to get popcorn there. Something must have happened, like a small pet in the popcorn or something and they got sued. I mean, it was a cash business that churned people out as if it was a life altering supplement. But, to make my dietary downward spiral complete, I visited the Golden Corral All you can eat buffet.

Let me tell you, one word, SCARY. First of all, I have never seen that much tattoo covered skin in my life. And, on that same note, these people all had large canvases on which to display their art if you know what I mean. You know people are serious about getting their money's worth when they double fist it with plates. One for the hot courses, one for the cold courses, and of course the obligatory strips of bacon laying across the top of both overflowing plates. I have not returned to the buffet since I was young, so the memories had somewhat faded. I have to say, it will be many a decade before these pictures wear away from the walls in my mind. People fighting over whats left of watery scrambled eggs. Kids mixing all of the ingredients on the dessert station. Sticky buns that leak where the shouldn't leak. And the down to earth waitresses busing dripping plates and replacing them with clean fresh saucers on which a week's worth of calories will slide down the throat lubricated with the 3 previous entrees. It was such a site, I was going to take pictures, but this is maybe the one place on earth that everyone was bigger than me. Though I definitely could have outrun them. Starting tomorrow, back on the wagon, fresh from the Golden Corral...

Until tomorrow...