Encore: All You Can Eat... And Then Some (Updates!)
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Chicken patrol. Tiny plates. Purses lined with plastic bags. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Endless Thread re-releases "All You Can Eat," an episode that peeks behind the curtain of the strange world of all-you-can-eat buffets, from the strategies buffet owners use to protect their profits to the hungry customers who try to game the system. Listen until the end for an update with Jordan, the Redditor and restaurant consultant featured in the original episode, to hear an insider's perspective on how the pandemic is changing the food industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:10.5 | What was your immediate reaction to that ladle thing that I sent you this weekend? |
| 0:16.5 | That post with the guy. |
| 0:18.0 | I think I sent you back the little barf emoji, right? |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.5 | That barf emoji gets me. |
| 0:25.5 | By the way, hey everybody. |
| 0:27.5 | Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:29.5 | Didn't see you there. |
| 0:30.5 | Amory and I were just talking about a reddit post that I sent her on the weekend of a guy |
| 0:36.5 | drinking out of the soup ladle at a buffet. |
| 0:43.5 | He might have been drinking salad dressing, but he was definitely... |
| 0:47.5 | Whoa! |
| 0:48.5 | That is a new interpretation. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm just saying he's clearly a little wacky if he's drinking from the ladle at the salad bar. |
| 0:57.5 | That's not accepted societal behavior, right? |
| 1:03.5 | You think he is part of society. |
| 1:06.5 | That's the problem is that there are people out there who are ladle-cippers. |
| 1:12.5 | It wasn't okay in 2018. |
| 1:15.5 | It was not okay in 2019, but in 2020 it is unthinkable. |
| 1:21.5 | He wasn't like sipping, too. |
| 1:28.5 | He was a coal miner coming out of the mine in Texas in the 1800s getting his water ration. |
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