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Banned from an all you can eat restaurant

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    #32
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The most shocking thing about this story is that the bigger guy in the article is only 26


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    #33
    TPD
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    The article doesn't mention if it was 5 bowls each or 5 between them - I'd say I could still be hungry after 2.5 (reportedly quite small) bowls of stir fry, if the case is that it was between them.
    Fair bit of pigging out, but that is exactly the type of diner attracted by an all you can eat restaurant.


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    #34
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,991 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    My name is URL wrote: »
    The most shocking thing about this story is that the bigger guy in the article is only 26

    He only weighed 7 stone when he arrived with his garden fork and spade for a quick snack.


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    #35
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    So, they were eating too much and are not allowed back!!!

    Five bowls appears to be all you can eat.... ever. :eek:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-19817457

    Two men barred from an all-you-can-eat Mongolian restaurant in Brighton say it was because they ate too much food.

    George Dalmon and Andy Miles, both 26, have visited Gobi, in Middle Street, twice a month for two years to take advantage of the £12 deal.

    But when they each ate five bowls from the buffet at their last visit, Mr Dalmon said they were called "filthy pigs" and barred by the "rude" manager.

    The restaurant's owners said they were fed up with their lack of manners.

    They accused the pair of pushing out other diners in their rush to get to the food.

    But former rugby player Mr Dalmon said: "As we were eating the last bowl, the owner came up and said never to come back again, we're disgusting, and we're eating him out of business, so we're nothing but filthy pigs.


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    #36
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    I'd say that restaurant will be dining out on the publicity for a long time.


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    #37
    ArtyC
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    Too late! Been done


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    #38
    admiralofthefleet
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    'Management reserve the right to refuse admission'


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    #39
    Millicent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    Were they oddly yellow tinged and fond of fish?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdGDkawumS8


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    #40
    AlmightyCushion
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    'Tis no man, 'tis a remorseless eating machine.


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    #41
    Mr Trade In
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    Stupid manager, I would have sh1t in there food first before barring them, one order of ****ty beef and one order of ****ty pork.


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    #42
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Ha now I've heard it all
    Il stick to my chipper so on case jimmy chungs bars me


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    #43
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Ha now I've heard it all
    Il stick to my chipper so on case jimmy chungs bars me

    If I got barred from jimmy chungs I literally think I'd have a nervous breakdown! I eat there everyday :P
    *waddle*


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    #44
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    If I got barred from jimmy chungs I literally think I'd have a nervous breakdown! I eat there everyday :P
    *waddle*

    Is that the place on the quays in Dublin?

    How much would you eat? Just curious.... that place is packed any time I walk past there.


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    #45
    benj
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭benj


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    So, they were eating too much and are not allowed back!!!

    Five bowls appears to be all you can eat.... ever. :eek:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-19817457

    Two men barred from an all-you-can-eat Mongolian restaurant in Brighton say it was because they ate too much food.

    George Dalmon and Andy Miles, both 26, have visited Gobi, in Middle Street, twice a month for two years to take advantage of the £12 deal.

    But when they each ate five bowls from the buffet at their last visit, Mr Dalmon said they were called "filthy pigs" and barred by the "rude" manager.

    The restaurant's owners said they were fed up with their lack of manners.

    They accused the pair of pushing out other diners in their rush to get to the food.

    But former rugby player Mr Dalmon said: "As we were eating the last bowl, the owner came up and said never to come back again, we're disgusting, and we're eating him out of business, so we're nothing but filthy pigs.


    Mr Dalmon is probably their marketing manager :-)


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    #46
    NegativeCreep
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    sunflower27 wrote: »
    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    If I got barred from jimmy chungs I literally think I'd have a nervous breakdown! I eat there everyday :P
    *waddle*

    Is that the place on the quays in Dublin?

    How much would you eat? Just curious.... that place is packed any time I walk past there.

    Thats the place. Bout 2 and a half plates full I suppose :D it's gorgeous :P


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    #47
    admiralofthefleet
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    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    If I got barred from jimmy chungs I literally think I'd have a nervous breakdown! I eat there everyday :P
    *waddle*

    time to get your cholesterol checked methinks


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    #48
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    sunflower27 wrote: »
    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    If I got barred from jimmy chungs I literally think I'd have a nervous breakdown! I eat there everyday :P
    *waddle*

    Is that the place on the quays in Dublin?

    How much would you eat? Just curious.... that place is packed any time I walk past there.

    Thats the place. Bout 2 and a half plates full I suppose :D it's gorgeous :P
    Don't forget as much ice cream as you want and cakes comin out every 20 mins poxy to pay for drinks tho except water
    Go at lunch time it's 8.50 per person all u can eat
    If have bout 3 plates of loads and then loads of ice cream to finish me off
    Then sit on jax for rest of the night but it's worth it :D


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    #49
    Super-Rush
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    Threads merged


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    #50
    fasttalkerchat
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    sunflower27 wrote: »
    Is that the place on the quays in Dublin?

    How much would you eat? Just curious.... that place is packed any time I walk past there.

    Beautiful place! Its pricey at €13/14 on a week night but worth it.


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    #51
    SunDog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭SunDog


    When backpack traveling myself and friends used to satisfy our immense appetite by eating quantities of food, now I would deem impossible, and relish it. This is what all you can eat is about. Similar to a casino, over time the house always wins even if someone gets the jackpot. From the link just wondering if these guys were just bouldering pricks"pushing people out of there way". There was one place that used to wait in horror for us to arrive but were polite enough(for ex-military itching to show themselves(France)) with confusion and distain on their face. Used to make a point of going up and thanking them personally for their great service before I left.


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    #52
    masseyno9
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    I was in a chinese buffet place in France once where the menu said there was a €5 charge for unfinished plates. Great idea I thought, until I took a big plate of "chicken skewers"...except they weren't, they were frogs legs. They looked really similar though. It was kind of like greasy chicken so wasn't too bad, better than paying €5 to not eat them anyway!


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    #53
    Emeraldy Pebbles
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    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Fat people go mad for this ****. Two fat people I know had a contest to see who could eat more because they thought it was a sign of manliness.

    Fat people disgust me.

    Well, those two should, but why fat people in general?


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    #54
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    Madam Marie wrote: »
    People love to moan about the Daily Mail, as much as they love chocolate.

    In fairness, the Daily Mail is an awful rag.


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    #55
    Madam Marie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 85 ✭✭Madam Marie


    Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »
    In fairness, the Daily Mail is an awful rag.

    All tabloids are rags, DM is no different.

    Would safely say, more threads are started on AH with DM links, than any other newspaper, yet it's frowned upon like no other also.


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    #56
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    Madam Marie wrote: »
    All tabloids are rags, DM is no different.

    Would safely say, more threads are started on AH with DM links, than any other newspaper, yet it's frowned upon like no other also.

    Yes, all tabloids are rags.


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    #57
    Emeraldy Pebbles
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    TPD wrote: »
    The article doesn't mention if it was 5 bowls each or 5 between them - I'd say I could still be hungry after 2.5 (reportedly quite small) bowls of stir fry, if the case is that it was between them.
    Fair bit of pigging out, but that is exactly the type of diner attracted by an all you can eat restaurant.

    That's the thing, how high were they piling their bowls?


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    #58
    ColeTrain
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    Damn Mongolians

    One of the comments on the page sums it up
    If you run a trough, you can't complain when a pig turns up.


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    #59
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    The food in all-you-can-eat places is usually terrible. Gloopy congealed sauces laden with MSG and sugar to mask the lack of taste from the cheap meat and vegetables used. False economy as well. All-you-can-eat rarely means good value.


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    #60
    Bebo stunnah
    Registered Users Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Bebo stunnah


    Thinly veiled "Yo momma's so fat.." joke


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    #61
    Esoteric_
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    If the place is anything like the Mongolian Barbecue just off of Dame Street in Dublin, I'd be in complete shock if they could eat more than one bowl. I can't even finish one bowl in that place and I'm not skinny!

    To be honest, it sounds like the manager didn't have much of a problem with them eating all they liked, as he allowed it for 2 years. If somebody was pushing customers/diners out of the way in order to race to get more food, I'd sure as hell kick them out, too.


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