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"I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277."

post #1 of 23
1/4/08 at 8:46pm
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Two fat fucks get charged extra for eating too much at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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HOUMA, La. - A 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet, then banned him and a relative because of how much they consumed during their visits.

Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3, disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.

"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,' " Labit said.

Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.

"I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.

Accountant Thomas Campo, who spoke for the restaurant because the owner's English is limited, said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.

"We have a lot of big people there," Campo said. "We don't discriminate."
Awesome.
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post #2 of 23
1/4/08 at 8:53pm
No, no, no. Fuck that. This is America. "All you can eat" for $9.95 is all you can eat. I don't care how fat you are. Tiny and his cousin need to fucking sue.
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post #3 of 23
1/4/08 at 9:00pm
What kind of fat person knows their exact weight down to the pound? I was about that size a few years back, and you couldn't have gotten me near a scale if you'd put a ham hock on that motherfucker.
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post #4 of 23
1/4/08 at 9:17pm
Homer Simpson: All you can eat. Ha!

Lionel Hutz: Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.
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post #5 of 23
1/4/08 at 9:43pm
Impressed:

I guess Labit and Borrelli were there longer than four owwa.
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post #6 of 23
1/4/08 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by BorisTheCheese
No, no, no. Fuck that. This is America. "All you can eat" for $9.95 is all you can eat. I don't care how fat you are. Tiny and his cousin need to fucking sue.
Yep, the restaurant should have exercised their right to refuse service, rather than overcharging.
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post #7 of 23
1/4/08 at 10:22pm
Or built smaller doors.
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post #8 of 23
1/4/08 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
Or built smaller doors.
Or put in weight-activated trap doors by the buffet. Weigh more than 250? Down you go!
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post #9 of 23
1/4/08 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by Tieman
Homer Simpson: All you can eat. Ha!

Lionel Hutz: Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.
"It was night, black as pitch...when out of the dark it came, more stomach than man!"
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post #10 of 23
1/4/08 at 11:23pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Or put in weight-activated trap doors by the buffet. Weigh more than 250? Down you go!
To be quickly prepared for the next day's buffet by the cooks in the basement!
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post #11 of 23
1/4/08 at 11:26pm
Look, I'm fat, and I've been way fatter, but I've never conquered the buffet. Usually it is I that am conquered. It's the stuffing, I always fall for the stuffing....
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post #12 of 23
1/5/08 at 4:16am
A few years ago I got booted from an all you can eat sushi place, but I think that had more to do with how incredibly drunk I was and less to do with the fact that I had been eating fancy fish for an hour and a half staight.

And for the record I was weighing in at around 180 at the time.

But I agree with Belethedheliel. They should have just kicked them out, not overcharged them.
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post #13 of 23
1/5/08 at 4:51am
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I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277
Well.. that'd be about the right weight if he was about 7'5" tall. Or really muscular.

Seriously, though, aside from the fact that this is about how much they ate (not necessarily how much they weighed, since I'd guess a skinny bulemic might eat more than they do and rile up buffet owners), health is less about weight and more about body fat percentage ('normal' for men is 15-18%, for women is 22-25%). I'm guessing this guy was more than 18% body fat.
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post #14 of 23
1/5/08 at 4:13pm
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Originally Posted by ChunkyLover53
"It was night, black as pitch...when out of the dark it came, more stomach than man!"
"Come se Bottomless Pete, nature's cruelest miatake! Come for the freak, stay for the food!"

Maybe they could have worked out some kind of sideshow attraction deal?

I went to an all you can eat Chinese buffet years ago with my friend John, who's a big guy like these fellas. As we were walking out, a REALLY fat guy, who muat have weighed 400 lbs or more, was rolling in. John, of all people, looks over at me and whispers: "They must dread that!" I could've killed him, because I was looking right at the fat guy at that moment, and it was incredibly hard not to laugh.
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post #15 of 23
1/5/08 at 5:12pm
Un-AMERICAN.
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post #16 of 23
1/5/08 at 9:59pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
Just watch out if you see Kevin Spacey come in to "help" him eat.
Muahhaahah
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post #17 of 23
1/6/08 at 12:52am
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
Look, I'm fat, and I've been way fatter, but I've never conquered the buffet. Usually it is I that am conquered. It's the stuffing, I always fall for the stuffing....
It's in the name, man! In the name!

I'm one of those people who loves abusing Asian buffets with crab legs.

Sure, they're cold, filled with exotic parasites, and so undercooked they drip out like snot - but by god, I get my 14 dollars worth.
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post #18 of 23
1/7/08 at 5:02pm
As much as I wanted to come in here and engage in fat-guy humor, I gotta take their side on this one. All you can fucking eat! It's there on the sign! No asterisks, no nothing. If you got a problem, ask them to leave, don't be a wuss and overcharge them, because either way, they're going to eat you.
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post #19 of 23
1/7/08 at 5:33pm
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'I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277'
Beautiful. I think that sums up a lot of the weight-issues you guys have South of the old border, unless this guy is an ex-Mr Universe or something. Nearly 300 pounds is not that fat? Then please, what the hell is?

Not to say that 277 is a "fat" weight for everyone, but if this guy eats all-you-can-eat buffet 3 days a week, I'm guessing he isn't exactly a pillar of good health.
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post #20 of 23
1/7/08 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by ChunkyLover53
"It was night, black as pitch...when out of the dark it came, more stomach than man!"
"Does this look like a man who had all he could eat? All he could eat?"
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post #21 of 23
1/7/08 at 7:20pm
You fat fucks...

(You KNOW Jabba, harry? Didn't think you'd been here THAT long.)
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post #22 of 23
1/7/08 at 7:26pm
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Originally Posted by harrybeanbag
Exactly. I'm 260, and while I could stand to drop a few pounds (actually working that out right now with diet tracking and a new lifting program), I'm not disgustingly obese. There are some 260-lb. dudes out there, however, who are terrifyingly similar to Jabba.
I knew you lifted weights but had no idea from the look of you that you effectively weigh 100 lbs heavier than me. DAMN!
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post #23 of 23
1/7/08 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by harrybeanbag
If the guy's 265 and 6' 3", that doesn't seem TOO bad...unless it's all flab. The story makes me think it's all flab, but a lot of offshore workers are pretty stout guys to begin with.
"Ideal" body weight for that height is in the 180s, normally under 200. My two tall and super-fit male friends, who are not body builders but in mixed martial arts, Crossfit, military etc are in the 200-210 ballpark at 6'5".

Again, body fat percentage is the better gage, since a fit athlete can weigh more. To give you an idea, though, how much muscle it would take to be at that weight, Arnold Schwarzenegger competed at 260 pounds (he's 6'2" and his non-competition weight is 235 lbs). A really heavy stocky body type might give you a reasonably fit weight in that ballpark if he was also quite muscular (see professional rugby player Os du Randt, who is 6'3" and 275 pounds, but has a bit of a gut).

ETA: Also, muscle burns more calories than fat, so if the guys were truly very muscular and fit, they'd likely actually eat MORE than if they were fat guys. So either way, they were probably eating a lot!
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