Althouse: All Yolk Caveat.

July 5, 2006

All Yolk Caveat.

Watch out for the eggs?

At the Yummy Buffet.

24 comments:

Laura Reynolds said...: Just don't take food and not eat it. There's precedent.; 7/5/06, 4:00 PM
buddy larsen said...: All Yolk Caveat:
Do the opposite of whatever the "just-eat-the-whites" lobby says.; 7/5/06, 5:35 PM
buddy larsen said...: Al Bumen, dad in the tv show "Married, with Cholesterol".; 7/5/06, 5:53 PM
Tibore said...: Okay... I had to stare at that for 5 minutes before I got it. Problem was, my brain was registering it as "ALL YOU CA NEAT" (All you Californians are neat?); 7/5/06, 6:21 PM
Kev said...: My college dorm cafeteria needed a sign like that; the powdered eggs were rather inedible most of the time.

They *did* have a funny sign on Sundays, when they served a decent little filet mignon for the Big Afternoon Meal: "NO STEAK ON SECONDS."; 7/5/06, 7:39 PM
Maxine Weiss said...: The politically correct term is: All you "care to" eat.

Nobody says "can" ....if that were the case, people'd eat them under the table.

By using "care to"....they encourage patrons to use discretion.

Peace, Maxine; 7/5/06, 8:58 PM
Eli Blake said...: Uh, you could make a profit selling buffet food for $5. Start with long cooking white rice (five pound bag, if you find it on sale you can get it for very cheap prices, even as low as 35 cents a pound.) Then buy sprouts and things, and some chicken and pork in bulk and cook chinese. You could also seperate out some of your rice and fry it with minimal amounts of sprouts and vegetables, and perhaps some chicken. If you are doing the cooking yourself (keep in mind that it is legal to pay waiters as low as $2.13 an hour) you could probably make it work.

But you are right, I'm not sure I'd want to gamble that is what they are doing. At the very least, you might want to call the food inspector and see if they've had any recent violations.; 7/5/06, 10:51 PM
The Mechanical Eye said...: I hope they have potato.

DU; 7/6/06, 12:34 AM
Danny said...: Yummy Buffet is a (somewhat disgusting) Madison staple that will likely outlast most of the buildings on campus. While the $5 buffet ($6 with drink) is a steal, I've found the to-go option provides the most bang for the buck (bang=MSG) at $3.50/lb.; 7/6/06, 1:11 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Dave: It amuses me to think that someone finds this the most challenging post of the day.; 7/6/06, 6:18 AM
buddy larsen said...: Funniest word association of the day, tho, Dave--; 7/6/06, 8:54 AM
buddy larsen said...: Surrealist comic Steven Tyler (sp?) has a story where he goes into a cafe with a sign saying "Breakfast Anytime" and asks for an "omlette during the French Revolution".; 7/6/06, 12:40 PM
Jennifer said...: LOL Did I get your word association joke, Buddy, or do I just have a dirty mind?; 7/6/06, 1:39 PM
buddy larsen said...: that was dave's, drat, but I can probly safely guess yes on the second part--
\;-D; 7/6/06, 2:17 PM
buddy larsen said...: I hope no hens are reading this--all that effort and it's still not Art.

Groan--no, horrible jokes aside, it's in the run-together lettering of the sign, it looks like it says "all yolk caveat". Sorta. Enuff for the easily-entertained and laff-hungry, anyhoo.; 7/6/06, 2:53 PM
xanthrope said...: I believe Buddy is referring to Steven Wright And french toast during the renaissance respectively. I wonder if he tried variations on the menu item and time period prior to settling on the classic french toast/renaissance version.
I understand in Paris they just call it toast.; 7/6/06, 3:02 PM
Jennifer said...: Actually, they call it pain perdu. Lost bread.; 7/6/06, 3:18 PM
buddy larsen said...: Jeez, I worked the Aerosmith in by accident. Renaissance and French toast do for a fact work better. Art, you're kidding right? Reversing the joke?; 7/6/06, 4:03 PM
Jennifer said...: Yes, Buddy, I'm not really seeing where Ann made fun of anybody either.; 7/6/06, 4:19 PM
Jennifer said...: I don't have a pipeline to Ann's brain either, but she has an artist's eye and tends to comment on a lot of things that she sees just slightly differently than intended. I assume this post fell along those lines.; 7/6/06, 4:46 PM
buddy larsen said...: Art, dine there, and Ann has helped the guy who wrote the sign.

Anyway, goofing on the sign is slapstick, the Marx Brothers would laff at it, but not Margaret Dumont.; 7/6/06, 4:57 PM
buddy larsen said...: That's not to call you a Margaret Dumont, Art--only to refer to the "elitist" word, in that Margaret Dumont's career was to embody it.; 7/6/06, 5:01 PM
buddy larsen said...: Anyway, it's all in how you look at it. Like the snail that got mugged by the turtle. He told the cops, "Well, it all happened so fast...."; 7/6/06, 6:32 PM
Ann Althouse said...: fWow. A lotta comments.

It's just a hand-lettered sign that amused me. Like the potato one.; 7/6/06, 11:13 PM