Hotel buffet breakfasts. Your strategy...

Hotel buffet breakfasts. Your strategy...

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PurpleAki

1,601 posts

87 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Sorting the crispy bacon from the rubbery stuck together bacon, is my first priority.

Digger

14,660 posts

191 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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No pics anyone? Disappointed.

Master Bean

3,558 posts

120 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Orange/apple juice. Meat, cheese and bread. No butter. Pastries pastries and more pastries followed by a lie down.

Vyse

1,224 posts

124 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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If your not doing it like this your doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVjskBB4w0

PoleDriver

28,636 posts

194 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Vyse said:
If your not doing it like this your doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVjskBB4w0
I stayed in a couple of hotels in Thailand last year which catered for coach loads of Chinese tourists.
Not quite as bad as that video but I've never seen such greed, bad-manners, rudeness and wastefulness from any other group of people anywhere!

whoami

13,151 posts

240 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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PoleDriver said:
Vyse said:
If your not doing it like this your doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVjskBB4w0
I stayed in a couple of hotels in Thailand last year which catered for coach loads of Chinese tourists.
Not quite as bad as that video but I've never seen such greed, bad-manners, rudeness and wastefulness from any other group of people anywhere!
The worst of the worst.

Appalling.

caveman87

10 posts

98 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Empty plate vacant stare and a coffee

Vyse

1,224 posts

124 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Yes, the Chinese mainlanders are the worst.

PoleDriver said:
I stayed in a couple of hotels in Thailand last year which catered for coach loads of Chinese tourists.
Not quite as bad as that video but I've never seen such greed, bad-manners, rudeness and wastefulness from any other group of people anywhere!

Pickled

2,051 posts

143 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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PurpleAki said:
Sorting the crispy bacon from the rubbery stuck together bacon, is my first priority.
I'm sure there's a euphemism in there.

boxst

3,716 posts

145 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Digger said:
No pics anyone? Disappointed.
British Airways lounge at T5 buffet .:..



dieselgrunt

688 posts

164 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Under cooked bacon, watery baked beans, anaemic scrambled eggs. Bet that cost a small fortune.

boxst

3,716 posts

145 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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dieselgrunt said:
Under cooked bacon, watery baked beans, anaemic scrambled eggs. Bet that cost a small fortune.
It's free -- well, spending a stupid amount of time flying but 'free' anyway.

It wasn't as bad as you describe smile

Oakey

27,564 posts

216 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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What is it about buffets that gets us blokes all excited?

I hate social events but if I'm told there's going to be a buffet I'm all "FREE FOOD?! WHAT TIME DO I NEED TO BE THERE?"

git-r

969 posts

199 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Oakey said:
What is it about buffets that gets us blokes all excited?

I hate social events but if I'm told there's going to be a buffet I'm all "FREE FOOD?! WHAT TIME DO I NEED TO BE THERE?"
Good question!

I love being able to have lots of variety, portion control I struggle with tho!

Sorry to hear about the hospital stay but great to hear you're getting properly fed. Pics please. Hope you get out soon buddy smile

That Chinese vid of the buffet in Thailand seems a bit turmped up!

I'm travelling there tomorrow so will see what the vibe is, hoping for tasty things... any suggested tactics greatly received smile

PurpleAki

1,601 posts

87 months

Saturday 25th March 2017
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Pickled said:
PurpleAki said:
Sorting the crispy bacon from the rubbery stuck together bacon, is my first priority.
I'm sure there's a euphemism in there.
Dirty boy!

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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Never scrambled egg. No way that mush has been set up fresh that am. More likely a packet.

Always fresh fried eggs, the ones left out to warm, you can bounce back like a basket ball.

Toast is difficult though letting it go cold first prevents the fire alarms at a second toasting, you know, to actually make it toast.

Anything else such as scent sausages is a bonus. Oh, and black pudding you can use to chock a jumbo with, smother in beans and tomatoes. Yum.

Oh, and the fruit, I have heard stories how it is peeled,it does not involved dusky maidens.

Edited by jmorgan on Sunday 26th March 08:00

battered

4,088 posts

147 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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jmorgan said:
Oh, and the fruit, I have heard stories how it is peeled,it does not involved dusky maidens.

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It generally involves a mechanical peeler or a bloke from Poland. I've been in one of the factories. One near Selby, one Corby, that I know of. Bloody boring places, nothing to interest me. (I'm a process guy).

Simes205

4,537 posts

228 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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TartanPaint said:
I'm assuming the nice lady has gone to fetch a large pot of something approximating coffee. If the coffee is self-serve, stick the biggest mug under the machine and press the espresso button 8 times. Top off with a splash of real milk from the jug in the cereal area. Leave the cereal area quickly in case you feel pressured into eating cereal.

Orange juice next. Down 4-6 glasses (carefully calculated based on glass size and hangover intensity) before carrying another back to your table. Grab a yogurt on the way. Do not eat the yogurt.

Grab a plate. Do not warm the plate on the toast conveyor. It will get stuck at the back, cause a toast pile-up and eventually set off the fire alarm.

Black pudding and fried bread next. Maybe a few beans. Then more black pudding. Try a sausage, see if they taste like butcher or supermarket. Then decide whether to have more
sausage or more black pudding or both. Avoid the bacon. It's probably unsmoked, and we're not savages.

Rinse and repeat.

Return to your room when the chest pain becomes unmanageable. Watch BBC News until the morning poo is ready, or checkout time, whichever comes first.


Edited by TartanPaint on Friday 24th March 08:29
Ha ha so true.
I put on 1.5 kg after working in the states for 3 weeks....scrambled eggg and fried eggs with every breakfast, "blue cheese with that sir" yes please etc, danishes doughnuts....trying to avoid buying lunch...

The Mad Monk

10,474 posts

117 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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First day and last day in a hotel/ship/where ever.

Full English.

Intervening days

Porridge or cereal.

227bhp

10,203 posts

128 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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KungFuPanda said:
Surely cereal is just a useless filler.

My ex girlfriend had one mate who used to make ham and cheese sandwiches for the families lunch at the breakfast buffet and sneak them out.
We used to do that when we went skiing. I remember one of the places I stayed near The 'Ring had a beautiful spread and he told us to make our lunches out of it too.