Where I had a little of this and a little of that on my plate, and piled high:
Cole slaw
Fruit Salad
Greens
Rutabagas
Macaroni & cheese
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Smokes pork (a burnt end)
A baked chicken wing
Half dozen fried chicken livers
Jalapeño cornbread
Unsweet iced tea
(No dessert but could have had banana pudding)
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 3, 2022 5:16 AM |
It’s the OLDE Cuntry Buffet, you fat whore!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 30, 2021 5:51 PM |
You forgot an offering: Cole slaw Fruit Salad Greens Rutabagas Macaroni & cheese Mashed potatoes and gravy Smokes pork (a burnt end) A baked chicken wing Half dozen fried chicken livers Jalapeño cornbread Unsweet iced tea (No dessert but could have had banana pudding) COVID
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 30, 2021 5:52 PM |
Good to the last droplet of Omicron.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 30, 2021 5:53 PM |
Let me guess: COVID was the dessert with a little omicron sprinkled on top?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 30, 2021 5:53 PM |
I love the fact that Golden Corral is constantly advertised even though there isn't one closer than 131 miles.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 30, 2021 5:55 PM |
R7 The last Golden Corral commercial I saw had Beethoven's Ninth Symphony playing in the background. Those peasants.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 30, 2021 6:00 PM |
Basically all starch and fat, OP. I guess there were greens boiled to death in pig fat.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 30, 2021 6:15 PM |
Years back I had to go to a stationery store that was in a shopping center. They had an Old Country Buffet on the street side of the parking lot. The lot was packed with cars and I had to park down next to the OCB. As I was leaving my car I passed by an empty space and saw a 6" high pile of fresh vomit on the pavement. it looked like an elephant had puked. Someone had eaten so much in the OCB they couldn't even make it into their car without puking it all up.
Disgusting.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 30, 2021 6:18 PM |
I thought that all buffets were closed due to COVID?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 30, 2021 6:33 PM |
R14, I wondered about that. I was in MD in Dec., and all Old Country Buffets were permanently closed.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 30, 2021 6:35 PM |
Not a chain country buffet. A one-off by a local restaurateur.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 30, 2021 6:41 PM |
Buffets are just too dicey right now, I'd prefer a cafeteria like Morrison's or Piccadilly.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 30, 2021 6:46 PM |
Before: how are they walking around over 300 lbs?
After: How does anyone stay under 300 lbs?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 30, 2021 6:49 PM |
This place required face masks when going down the serving tables and provided disposable clear plastic gloves to wear.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 30, 2021 6:54 PM |
Not only have I never had a rutabaga, I'm not even sure what one is!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 30, 2021 7:01 PM |
I don't even know what a rutabaga looks like. Too lazy to care.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 30, 2021 7:05 PM |
rutabaga added to certain soups spices them up. Not sure about eating them separately
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 30, 2021 7:08 PM |
Mine were cut into bite-size chunks and boiled in a savory stock. Excellent!
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 30, 2021 7:09 PM |
Enjoy your final days eating at Old Country Buffet - the new corporate owner is closing them all.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 30, 2021 7:12 PM |
Buffets are for the Poors.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 30, 2021 7:13 PM |
A buffet with this covid variant?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 30, 2021 7:15 PM |
Fuck 'em and feed 'em rutabagas!
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 30, 2021 7:23 PM |
I am planning on hosting a buffet at my house:
Garlic roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower
Brown Rice
Green Beans
Sauteed Eggplant
Smoked Salmon
Fried Herring Bites
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 30, 2021 7:24 PM |
R30 The elites might not go to a buffet restaurant but they love a good buffet. In college, I helped work a $1000/person political fundraiser. We had a buffet and trying to get those rich people to stop eating all you can eat prime rib was harder than taking a crackhead's crack.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 30, 2021 7:27 PM |
[quote]Jalapeño cornbread Unsweet iced tea (No dessert but could have had banana pudding)
you forgot the covid
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 30, 2021 7:29 PM |
[quote]Brown Rice, Green Beans
Plain? this sounds like a school cafeteria
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 30, 2021 7:29 PM |
Lubys's closed up shop. Cleburnes's is still open still has quality food and packed especially on Sundays after church.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 30, 2021 7:49 PM |
Rutabagas were the mainstay of rich, well-connected people during the Nazi Invasion of Russia.
(The poors just ate each other).
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 30, 2021 8:55 PM |
An old 40’s Jalopy has trouble finding its way out of your ass
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 30, 2021 9:12 PM |
OP is a liar. The last Olde Cuntry Buffet closed in her state seven years ago, just after that tri-county hepatitis outbreak when they found that they were shake-and-bakin' their meth to shoot after hours. The hep came from those sticky needles they used night after night.
My mother went on a rutabaga kick in the 1980s. She'd mail us recipes. We'd fix them and report back to her on results. Visiting her at her birthday way baked a rutabaga cake for her birthday, and the rutabaga craze ended at that time.
Personally, I prefer turnips, kohlrabi and parsnips in my winter soups.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 30, 2021 9:49 PM |
[quote] I'd prefer a cafeteria like Morrison's or Piccadilly
Is Morrison's even still open other than the ones located in hospitals? I believe they sold out to Piccadilly several years back. I read they set up a new business entity for the hospital contracts called Morrisons Health,
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 31, 2021 12:30 AM |
R40 You clearly missed R16
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 31, 2021 12:33 AM |
Normally avoid buffets but went to this one in Owensboro (Kentucky) about a year ago and ate more meat in one sitting than I’d eaten altogether in the previous year.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 31, 2021 12:50 AM |
More like Olde Covid Buffet, amirite? *rimshot*
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 31, 2021 12:51 AM |
Is this like porn but for fatties?
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 31, 2021 12:51 AM |
This really is a thread that should have started with FAT WHORES REJOICE!
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 31, 2021 12:56 AM |
R41 Piccadilly has maintained one location of Morrison's in their original city of Mobile. Alabama. I imagine it is to maintain the trademark. I ate there and it did taste different than Piccadilly, so I guess it isn't just a branding thing. But it was not quite as good as I remember Morrison's, but better than Piccadilly.
They were really the perfect places to have lunch during work or after church. You got tasty food and you didn't have to wait for it to cook.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 31, 2021 1:55 AM |
Piccadilly's and Morrison's are cafeterias, not self-serve buffets.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 31, 2021 2:10 AM |
I wasn't around in the years past like most people who remember great times and stories about Old Country buffet. I found myself coming here due to a child in the family having a birthday dinner and requesting; ice cream, cake, Mac n Cheese, tacos, etc. There's no place in Yakima that all of those exist other than Old Country Buffet.
While it did fill the family up (2 adults, a 13yo, another adult, and 3 kids between 6-11) it came with a price of $72.00 for dinner. This is a pretty steal price considering we would pay that at the mid ranged restaurants in the area for complete meals.
The staff was very friendly and helpful, the table was always bussed with plates removed. The restroom was tidy. The dining area was kept clean. The food had a nice presentation on the various bars. The quality of the food though, this evening there were several items that tasted "off." The bbq sausage, green beans, chicken Alfredo, and the steak. I wanted it to be spectacular, it just wasn't in the cards for this evening.
Indeed if you are looking for a place to gather all sorts of cuisine together, the Old Country Buffet is the place. If you are coming in with a pretty epic crew... plan accordingly as it's gonna cost.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 31, 2021 2:15 AM |
You forgot an offering: Cole slaw Fruit Salad Greens Rutabagas Macaroni & cheese Mashed potatoes and gravy Smokes pork (a burnt end) A baked chicken wing Half dozen fried chicken livers Jalapeño cornbread Unsweet iced tea
Well, thank God you had the "Unsweet iced tea"
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 31, 2021 2:23 AM |
I don't know how Chrissy M even has the time to type up these post...
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 31, 2021 2:25 AM |
Rutabagas! What the fuck is a Rutabaga?
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 31, 2021 2:29 AM |
My mother cooked Rutabaga every Thanksgiving. The kitchen smelled like high heaven, drowning out all the good smells of a Thanksgiving meal. I don't know why she wanted it; no one else did.
I always woke up that morning to the smell of onions, butter and celery cooking in a skillet for the stuffing. That was wonderful!
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 31, 2021 4:14 AM |
I'm a pretty adventurous cook and one year I found a recipe for mashed root vegetables. It had turnips, parsnips, rutabagas an celairec in it. I thought it might be a nice change of pace.
It was disgusting. Maybe getting fresh root vegetables in NYS at Christmas was a bad idea. it was something like the recipe below, but it didn't say anything about adding carrots or sweet potatoes. Maybe it would have been better with one or both of those in it.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 31, 2021 4:34 AM |
I don't mind the taste of rutabagas, but you could easily chop off a hand while trying to peel them.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 31, 2021 10:54 PM |
My mother used to make mashed rutabagas when I was a kid, and I loved them. I tried making them myself, and the results were less than tasty. I do like roasted parsnips, but they taste too similar to carrots to pay four times as much money for the parsnips
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 31, 2021 10:58 PM |
Rutabagas are delicious! Get a nice fresh one, peel, cube, boil until soft and mash with heavy cream and lots and lots of butter.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 31, 2021 10:59 PM |
GOLDEN CORRAL = THE PIGATERIA
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 31, 2021 11:32 PM |
[quote]Rutabagas are delicious! Get a nice fresh one, peel, cube, boil until soft and mash with heavy cream and lots and lots of butter.
No.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 1, 2022 12:08 AM |
^^^ "Well I never in all my life!"
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 1, 2022 12:36 PM |
My grandfather from Seattle loved rutabagas, which he called Swedes because the Swedish immigrants at home ate them (the British also call them that). When he came to visit, my mom would prepare a big bowl of mashed Swedes as a special treat for him and her -- the rest of us wouldn't touch them. I just followed my dad's lead in rejecting them so I've never tasted them, they might be wonderful for all I know (they look like too much trouble to find out though).
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 1, 2022 1:54 PM |
As someone mentioned above, they take a skilled knife or peeler wielder to get the bark off of them.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 1, 2022 2:44 PM |
Like a really large turnip. I don’t find them hard to peel, for me the cubing is the challenge.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 2, 2022 11:47 PM |
I don't peel turnips. Clean them and cut the odd bits off.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 3, 2022 12:22 AM |
My old ethnic friend says she can't find large overgrown rutabagas covered in paraffin anymore. "They're too young and taste too sweet! Yuck!" she complains.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 3, 2022 12:27 AM |
Rutabagas have to have the wax peeled off R66. It isn’t edible.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 3, 2022 12:48 AM |
I prefer the fine ambiance and the elegant decor of Sir George's Smorgasbord!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 3, 2022 1:14 AM |
They also had gizzards but I'm a fried chicken liver fan.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 3, 2022 2:09 AM |
In our neighborhood, Sir Georges' Smorgasbord became OLIVE GARDEN!!!
Corporate Restaurants taking over!
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 3, 2022 4:53 AM |
But for the rutabagas, fried livers, and greens, I could get small servings of all of these foods at the deli counter of my grocery store. The quality is likely to be better, too.
If I wanted to do a Southern cafeteria sides night, I'd make some of this stuff myself, including a small peach crisp. I'd do the greens with turkey ham.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 3, 2022 5:16 AM |
