I’ve been told here (I forget by whom) that the BMI does not work at extremes. The BMI would have me in the happy zone at 11 stone - skinny as a rake. Mass (and therefore weight) is related to your volume, which is proportional to the cube of your height.
The restaurant and patron should have adopted the Simpsons solution:
"Come, see Bottomless Pete! Nature’s cruelest mistake - come for the freak, stay for the food … " 
AP, via WDSU, New Orleans:
Maybe they could just make the door narrower.
That reminds me now of a sci-fi short story, in which the guy eating at the AYCE buffet was actually an alien who was somehow transmitting the food he ate back to starving companions back home. The chef and staff were tearing their hair out trying to make enough food to keep up with the patron’s requests, and ended up going shopping after they’d thawed and cooked everything in the freezer…
The last time I saw an AYCE situation - no buffet, but “unlimited” sushi/sashimi - the restaurant said you had to eat everything you ordered on the spot, or else you would be charged the a la carte prices for the leftovers. That seemed to do a pretty good job of curtailing the folks who would order tons of stuff, and then ask for a doggie bag to bring home the extras they never really meant to eat at that meal. :rolleyes:
Reduces the experimentation likely to happen at a sushi place as well.
277 is pretty big, but for a man who’s 6’3", he’s not huge. Sixty, seventy pounds overweight - it’s a problem, but it’s not comically fat. Look at the video of John Pinette, linked earlier; at the time Pinette probably weighed 375, maybe 400 pounds. (He’s lost a lot of weight recently, I have been told.)
What about that chemical stuff buffets inject their food with to make people think they’ve filled up quicker? I know CiCi’s Pizza is reputedly known for doing this.
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Oh… NEVVVVer mind!
Wow, those AYCE buffets really do serve everything. Wouldn’t eating on top of the table be easier and more sanitary, though?
No, that’s what you inferred through some rather disingeuous and cruel sarcasm. I am talking about all creatures Great and Small. And there is no hard line other than that which you arrogantly impose. As soon as you set a rule, quantum probability and biology will defeat it.
Frankly with the prices CiCi’s charges, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there food was actually flavored packing peanuts. I can’t feed my dog for what CiCi’s charges. But I have higher standards for my dog.
I’d be surprised that the “average” person could eat a full pound of beef; that’s typically 3-4 servings.
All average people can eat pounds of meat. That is our evolutionary advantage.
Sure. But if you take a plains ape’s ability to gorge itself stupid on the one occasion in six weeks it gets the chance to, and couple that with the modern superabundance of food in the Western world, you’re heading for trouble quicker than you can say “Are you gonna eat the rest of that?”. It’s wiser to leave off at a third of a pound.
Yeah, but if youre gorging at a buffet, and the steak has a bone and fat and is cooked that 16oz turns into about 8.
I’ve seen many dubious allusions to quantum theory, but this is the first time I’ve seen it cited as a justification for human obesity.
It is impossible to know both how fat a buffet patron is, and whether he is headed toward the crab legs or the lasagna, at the same time.
Which is still 2.67 times the recommended portion size for meat. 3 oz. Just a little teeny tiny 3 oz.
I’m not citing it as a cause for obesity, I am citing it as a cause for biodiversity, which may or may not include a propensity for obesity. Our genes are at base quantum functions.