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Anonymous Tue Dec 24 15:31:50 2019 No.13411037 [Reply] [Original]

Are all-you-can-eat buffets mostly an American thing, or are they common in other countries as well?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:00:14 2019 No.13411133 >>13411037 Common here but a different name. In Spanish, tenedor libre aka free fork, free as in freedom. And in Brazilian they're called espeto corrido. No idea why since I'm not br.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:06:27 2019 No.13411152 >>13411133 >And in Brazilian they're called espeto corrido. No idea why since I'm not br. It's only called espeto corrido if they're serving churrasco, since it is cooked and served on skewers (espetos). If it's normal food, it's called "boca livre".

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:09:50 2019 No.13411158 >>13411133 i was taught libre is pound and gratis is free

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:10:24 2019 No.13411160 >>13411152 Oh... Dunno in my retarded country they're pretty much interchangeable. We don't speak Portuguese tho, we just borrwed the word, probably from chui.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:11:32 2019 No.13411166 >>13411158 Libra is pound. Gratis is free as in no cost.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:11:56 2019 No.13411167 File: 117 KB, 1100x550, stallman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13411133 >tenedor libre aka free fork, free as in freedom

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:12:11 2019 No.13411168 >>13411158 free as in freedom, not as in no price

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:15:27 2019 No.13411179 >>13411160 Uruguay?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:16:08 2019 No.13411181 >>13411166 >>13411168 muchas garcias

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 16:16:13 2019 No.13411182 >>13411179 Yeh.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 17:34:28 2019 No.13411418

In Finland they tend to be popular near physical worker sites (factories, construction sites etc.) In general as lunch places they are common. There is one chain of all all you can eat buffets, but it is considered incredibly trashy.

Asian/Chinese ones are the most common ones.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 17:44:45 2019 No.13411444

>>13411037
Leaf here and like our other frozen brothers from accross the pond >>13411418 it really is mostly Asian restaurants that do all you can eat buffets. Depending on where you are in the country though you might find more non-Asian BBQ type buffets

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 19:42:39 2019 No.13411732 >>13411179 There's nothing wrong with that anymore, it's 2019

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 09:35:45 2019 No.13413578 >>13411444 Leaf here, I have encountered greek and basic bitch white person all you can eat buffets

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 10:19:19 2019 No.13413687 >>13411444 Nobody cares dipshit. What’s with leafs trying to pretend they’re completely different than Americans?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 10:26:02 2019 No.13413701 >>13413687 Lol get a load of this triggered flyover

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 11:28:08 2019 No.13413865 >>13411167 Yes you have to bring your own. t. Fellow spaniard

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 11:31:31 2019 No.13413877 >>13411133 I am from Spain and never heard of the term "tenedor libre". They are just called buffet.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:11:03 2019 No.13413995
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Back when I was a little kid, we’d regularly go to Sweden House on Sundays (on 10 Mile Rd. and Ryan) as they'd have a huge side of roast beef that the cook would carve off slices and my dad would get a table spoon worth of mashed potatoes and pile the rest of plate full of meat while for me, the treat was the soft serve ice cream machine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:26:32 2019 No.13414051 Here in Italy only the Chinese does that. We have buffet and "apericena"(in northen Italy). The latter is kinda similar but not exactly the same concept, you

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:30:55 2019 No.13414063 In Japan we have all-you-can-eat yakiniku. They give you a tablet with a timer, you order as much food as you can and after two hours they kick you out. Karaoke places also commonly have all-you-can-drink specials.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:39:02 2019 No.13414087 File: 80 KB, 800x423, ChineseTourists.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13411037 They have them everywhere. Except maybe North Korea or Somalia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVjskBB4w0

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:47:04 2019 No.13414112

>>13411418
>Asian/Chinese ones are the most common ones.
I've heard there's companies in China that set immigrants up with all they need to open a buffet before sending them abroad, and that's why they all seem to look alike. I wouldn't be surprised if the menu at your local Chinese buffet is 90% the same as the one in my corner of flyover USA.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:51:50 2019 No.13414120

>>13414112
To be fair all the popular ethnic cuisines in the US have pretty standard menu items. You're going to find tacos, burritos, and enchiladas at every Mexican restaurant and you're going to find fettuccini alfredo, calzones, and chicken parmesan at every Italian restaurant.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:56:50 2019 No.13414128 >>13414051 What happened? Where did you go? Are you ok?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 12:59:54 2019 No.13414136 >>13414112 Ive heard it's more that they use all the same suppliers and business models

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 13:04:52 2019 No.13414149 File: 35 KB, 540x405, mauchuredfox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13413995 My grandmother's funeral lunch was there a few years back. Steam table food but it was okay.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 13:09:25 2019 No.13414157 sip now Old Country Buffet, that was a restaurant (it closed and now there's only one in the black part of town where niglets stick their hands in the food trays and stuff like that)

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 13:34:32 2019 No.13414202
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>>13414087
>Not using utensils at the buffet
>Filling multiple plates at once
>Crawling over each other like crabs
>Leaving all that food behind after ensuring that other people couldn't get any
I wish I hadn't watched that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:24:30 2019 No.13414951 Don't exist in russia, we have these things called stalovaya which is a canteen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:32:13 2019 No.13414987 >>13414951 sounds comfy like a commy block

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:33:31 2019 No.13414990 >>13414987 That's literally it, its a remnant of commie times. If you wanna see what it's like, this guy does videos in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5qd8xwgc6M

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:36:58 2019 No.13415008

We have them in the UK but it's only really Chinese restaurants that do buffets, with a bit of english food on them. Usually its food that's sat out since opening so is usually quite dry by the time you eat there, so go to a busy or small restaurant.

Also we have carveries which are places you pay for your plate of roast meat then the vegetables are all you can eat, but you can't get more meat

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:38:28 2019 No.13415015 >>13411037 Common everywhere,Asian buffets are great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:45:14 2019 No.13415053 >>13411037 Pip pip, ol' lad. Britishman here, at your service. Boof-ays are rather smashing here in Ye Olde Foggy Londontown. Cheerio, sir, cheerio!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 17:48:47 2019 No.13415068 >>13414157 >old country buffet damn I forgot that existed. Would go there maybe once a month as a youngin'.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 18:00:07 2019 No.13415113 >>13411037 Rather uncommon in germany. There are some, but never was in one.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 18:04:36 2019 No.13415137

>>13411037
Pretty sure you can find them anywhere, certainly at least in tourist areas.

There are "all you can eat in two hours" restaurants all over Taiwan, and lots of hotels with buffets in Thailand. Taiwan also has a LOT of buffets where you load up a lunchbox and pay by how much food you take.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 18:06:16 2019 No.13415147 >>13411037 They're common in other countries now, but all restaurants in the US used to be all you can eat buffets until foreign ala cart was introduced.

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