Ordering an "all-you-can-eat" item at a restaurant means you have to LITERALLY eat ALL THAT YOU CAN EAT. It does not mean you will get your first plate and give up. That is what the restaurant wants you to do! You MUST persevere! You must eat so much that you become the reason they no longer have such specials at whatever restaurant you are visiting!
I enforce this rule in all situations. If there is an all-you-can-eat option at a restaurant and it involves salad, soup or pasta, I'm getting it. I literally have to take a personal day the day that Olive Garden's fall special, neverending pasta bowl, ends every year.
Today e.jo and I were both simultaneously listening to our stomachs growl and burble in the office at work. We made a TOUGH decision and decided that, instead of starve, we should go to Applebee's for their all you can eat soup salad and bread. I owned it, ordering two rounds. E.jo didn't even order it! Probably good for her though, because I would have harassed her into ordering four helpings of everything.
At Holiday Kitchen in Iron Mountain, MI, they have the MOST AMAZING house salad, the MOST AMAZING house bread (fresh baked DAILY), and glorious soups.
My sister and myself make a point to visit there at least four times a day when we're visiting our parents. She is a slow eater. And by slow eater I mean she futzes with her food. She will push things around until she has the perfect amount of each ingredient on her fork. So needless to say I am always four plates ahead of her since I do not futz, I merely SHOVEL food into my face. So I am constantly forcing her to order more plates of salad and more cups of soup. I of course can order more bread for both of us because it comes in a basket and I usually eat 3 pieces to her 1 per basket. One time she stated that she didn't think she would be able to eat more. When the waitress came and asked if she wanted seconds of anything, I said yes she does. The waitress said ok and then asked my sister what kind of soup she wanted. My plan was foiled! She of course said she didn't need any more and I couldn't force her to eat more.
Whatever. I will continue on my lonely road of practicing for competitive eating. That is, until my boyfriend gets back:
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