All You Can Eat?

Sigh...
Thigh-burn is still giving me serious trouble - in fact, this evening, if anything, it looks redder and angrier and altogether more ready to  turn horrid and septic and kill me (whaddaya mean, stop being a drama queen?). Nevertheless, we actually made it out last night, on a random whim. Went to see Thor, the movie - big, Shakespearian, and pretty much as loud as you'd expect from a movie about a hammer-weilding thunder 'god'. We came out hungry, and decided to give a local Chinese restaurant a final try.

I say final try because here's the thing - it's sometimes a regular restaurant, charging fairly steep prices for ordinary dishes, and sometimes, it's an 'All You Can Eat' buffet. Not keen to shell out for just a few dishes when we could eat till we were stuffed, we've tried twice to get buffet from it recently, and been turned away because 'it was the wrong time.' We were starting to feel like like they saw us coming and though "Oh Hellno, not offering 'all you can eat' to these fat fucks, everybody, hide the buffet!"

But last night, we must have caught them unawares, because the buffet was in full swing. It was only as we went around the buffet-table that the paucity of the phrase "All You Can Eat" became apparent. Rice - high-carb. Noodles - likewise. Most of the meats were either battered and deep fried, or coated in a sweet syrup...or both (sweet and sour, anyone?). Dumplings - perhaps less grim than most things, diet-wise - protein or vegetation in a thinnish carb-wrap. But you see the point? The very idea of enjoying an "All You Can Eat" buffet pretty much turns to cobwebs and ashes when you're on a quest like this. So really, there's no point trying to be a glutton about the thing - you might as well just pay the price, choose something you really want and can eat without feeling guilty, and move on. It's the same dilemma as having discriminating taste in the age of hundreds of TV channels. Sure, there's plenty to choose from, but would you actually want any of it? Use your diet as you would a remote control, and pick the few items you really want, rather than just sitting through whatever's available for hours on end.