I dunno. I’m 75kg and could out eat a truck driver in a pie eating contest.
I totally read that as you could eat out a truck driver
Be sure and tell em Large Marge sent ya.
I read it as “could eat a truck driver”.
Thin people can actually eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach is of equal size, but fat people’s stomach has to push against a fat layer that thin people don’t have- or at least have a lot less of. It’s why thin people are generally better at winning eating contests.
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-11/why-do-thin-guys-always-seem-win-eating-contests/
That just illustrates the difference that is an all you can eat business and a single event contest
Restaurants need repeat customers. Ignoring exclusions for special considerations or circumstances, if you are fat, eating larger portions of food than you need to when you eat is likely why you are fat.
Calories in calories out
Most people arent active enough to not get fat while eating large portions of food
Cool article, thanks for the link. I always wondered about that (as a skinny tall guy who can eat a lot in a single sitting).
I always thought height was also a factor because the stomach can stretch horizontally as well as vertically, but apparently not.
Idk man, I have some obese relatives and they eat so much at a single meal that it makes me nauseous just observing it. They may have fat pushing against their stomachs, but I’m pretty sure their stomachs are stretched out to the max.
135kg here, pretty sure I could fit through the 30%. I guarantee the 20%. More worried about having to duck.
So kids get food for free
Which is not totally uncommon at some buffets
I will break that thing trying to get through the 100%
High School me would have made them regret this system. I was skinny as hell but could consume VAST QUANTITIES
11 year old me, too. I grew 6" in about 4 months but I only weighed about 60lbs when I was done because I was super tiny to start. My mom said our food bill roughly doubled that summer because I was eating about 4 servings at every meal. Could’ve fit my scrawny ass in that 100% off section probably and then gone ham on a buffet.
When I was 14, I grew 10" that year. At the end of the year I was 6’0 tall and weighed 145lbs.
We did a Calorie counting unit in PE that year in school. I was eating on average 6,000 calories per day across 8 meals.
Puberty is fuckin wild. I wish I could still eat like that.
Its insane how little I eat now compared to then.
My two boys are 14 and 19. The food bill has been stupid high for way too long.
My wife and I combined don’t eat as much as one of them.
Like me all my life until my 30s, I can still easily eat a LOT but I gain weight, not a ton but not super skinny no matter what anymore.
This is my brother now, in his mid 20s. His metabolism is out of control. I’m pretty jealous.
Exactly this. My ex-wife was 5’2”, 94 pounds with clothes on. She got us banned from our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. Her diet was “anything not nailed down.” Lots of good reasons why she’s an ex, but I do miss how she could pack away food.
Yeah, fat almost 40 year old me can never do ann all you can eat. If I did one it would be a full plate one or two plates. Teens/20’s me would marauder the all you can eat I was also doing 2-3 sports at a time but still. Thin young people are gonna eat more than us old fat fucks. I remember doing it at Golden Coral and Ponderosaas a kid
I said this above, but there’s a reason for that. Thin people can eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach can expand more due to having less fat to push against.
Me in college. About 5’11", 135lbs, all tone all the time from climbing and biking several hours every day. I spent a lot of time just trying to eat enough food to keep up
7 plates in I would have made a masscre of the general Tso’s chicken. It doesn’t matter where anyone comes from… They all serve it at the buffet
I could probably get the 50% discount
I’m 6’0 250 lbs, I’d force myself through that 100% discount
5’9, 100 pounds, i think i could get the discount
I’m like half an inch shorter than you and the same weight. We could share clothes! I hope you like joggers and tshirts.
6’ 2", 230 So close!
Well, that’s not embarrassing at all . . .
I’ve always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.
imagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms
I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket
I can see a class action lawsuit if they ever switch to that. And I imagine there wouldn’t be that risk if airlines had priced their tickets based on weight from the very start back in the Roaring Twenties.
Said by someone who hasn’t thought this through at all.
People would intentionally dehydrate themselves to save money, it’s dangerous.
If you’re so poor you have to dehydrate yourself pre flight to save 2kgs of weight you shouldn’t be spending your money on plane tickets.
It’s not that they necessarily have to, some people will anyway to save a buck. And then you’re just incentivising dangerous behavior.
that’s amazing! I wonder why children got a further discount. I wonder if it’s a coincidence they are no longer flying.
Personally from my experience Really skinny people can eat a shit ton and have a hard time putting on weight making them need to eat more
So they are overpriced and as “fat guy” you are sponsoring “skinny” ones.
Meanwhile skinny people sponsor fatter ones on a regular buffet… Not sure that’s much better.
And at the hospital through our taxes. At least in civilized countries with healthcare.
The assumption is a fst person will eat more. So them paying more balances it out.
Why are you using quotations?
Just like how skinny folks are sponsoring fat folks air fare.
Too tall. NO DISCOUNT FOR YOU!
Wheelchair? No discount for You.
COME BACK, SHORTER!
I like how this kind of implies that they want you at the 20-30% discount mark. Too fat? Stop eating. Too skinny? Please, gorge yourself on the house!
At 20-30% off you are paying only 70-80% markup. The 10% off guy is getting 90% markup. No restaurant would create something like this if they weren’t marking up the menu to start with.
You don’t think about how much extra you are paying because you are too busy thinking about the discount you got squeezing yourself through a sign.
This was my first thought after seeing this.
Thank god.
I almost had the urge to write down for our fellow americans: It is not always about the money.
Almost. Aaand I think i couls have used hussle here.
so kids eat 50% off and babies are free?
Sounds like a good deal for kids but I could never eat a baby even it was free.
Try them with rice.
5/7
You know “the old reddit switcheroo” was one of my first times spending hours on that site. It’s the little things like this that entertain me.
I feel like growing teenagers are a massive exploit here.
It’s always free to eat the babies.
Yeah, it’s like with pigeons.
That dude looks pretty big to be getting a discount. Maybe that’s just so everyone feels good about the system.
Kinda unfair for some woman I’d imagine.
Yeah, everytime I see this all I can think is that even when I was a skinny teenager I was a 32E. I wouldn’t have fit in any of those.
Skill issue, come at it at an angle and then rotate through.
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Surgery keeps you from eating too much. It’s still a ton of work and effort, I wouldn’t consider it a cheat.