New Restaurant

OK...it is not new, but it is the first time I have tried it. Hometown Buffet my friends!

Some of you may know of my idiotic resolution to try some chain restaurants this year. No, I have not eaten at most chains. I feel culturally deprived of my American psyche. Maybe that is why I am such a liberal and do not like GW--because I don't eat good wholesome American chain cusine.

And, coming off a good outing in Dec at the Red Lobster, I was ready (with Sharlynn scowling at me all the way) to try Hometown Buffett.

It was...ahem...really...f'ing terrible! I cannot imagine ever wanting to eat there again. I could not tell the chicken from the fish from the bread from the steak. Almost everyone working there was obese, and so were many of the customers. I think I saw the character from Gone Baby Gone there. And a dude looked a lot like Alice Cooper, on a bad trip day.

Sharlynn (who was a good sport about it-she even found a coupon for it) and I were talking about how bad the place is, and how many of the people eating the food looked pretty...well, unhealthy would be nice, when all of a sudden, across my field of vision heading to the buffet, was my own mother. I almost choked I was about to laugh out loud. I peeked under a divider and saw my dad sitting there waiting for mom to get her stuff so he could get his.

Well, we had to say hi, and we did not eat with them, because we were just getting our banana pudding as dessert and they were just on their first trip through the greasy, overcooked, tasteless laden steam trays.

I can think of only two reasons I would eat there again. If I was so out of my mind stoned, that it somehow sounded really good to me, or, if someone were holding a gun to Sharlynn's head threatening to shoot her if I did not eat there. Other than that, I think I will let that piece of Americana keep to itself.

Ohhhhhh...where is the Pepto?