Today, for the first time in years, I went to a buffet for lunch.
Bartenders can be fined and a premises can lose its liquor license for serving alcohol to someone who is obviously intoxicated. Why can't restaurants lose their license for letting someone who is obviously obese order the "all you can eat" buffet?
I understand that even the obese need nutritional input. Couldn't we limit them to one garden salad every two hours? A bartender can still give a stumbling drunk a glass of water or a cup of coffee.
Or we cut the hypocrisy and allow people to drink until they have to be hauled out with a forklift.
4 comments:
IMHO, I think you've got your analogy wrong.
A buffet refusing to feed an obese person would be more like a bar refusing to give a person their first drink of the night because they look like they might be an alcoholic.
To make the analogy you're looking for, the buffet would have to say "sorry buddy, but you ate enough for one meal". Stopping them not because they're fat, but because they look full.
I will let my analogy stand as is. The theory behind getting cut-off at the bar has to do with health and safety concerns. If bartenders working for tips must decide when someone is putting their own health and safety at risk, then other service industry employees also working for tips can rightfully be expected to make a similar call in their respective field. A bartender would probably serve a paying customer about to die of alcohol poisoning if regulations didn't put his job at risk for doing so. Why should the rest of the service industry get off the hook so easily? Shouldn't we also expect strippers to refuse to give a lap dance to someone who has obviously seen too much pussy for one night? While I can't think of how one could suffer any ill health effects from such a thing, the theory should still apply.
Good rebuttal!
Perhaps what we really need is a constitutional amendment banning all you can eat buffets.
I am now going to go think about underground buffets, and the associated "cheese running" that would be required to sustain them...
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