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a sworn contract between human appetite and the laws of diminishing returns
means A meal where dishes are laid out for diners to serve themselves freely, often for a fixed price — or, as a verb, to strike or batter repeatedly.
from Two different words wearing the same spelling. The all-you-can-eat sense comes from French 'buffet,' a sideboard or table where food was displayed, a word of obscure origin first found in Old French. The 'strike repeatedly' sense is older and unrelated: from Old French 'buffet,' a little blow or slap, a diminutive of 'bufe,' a blow — itself likely imitative of the puff of a cheek being struck. So whether you're piling a plate high or getting knocked about by a storm, you're a victim of the same humble French syllable.
- sneeze guard
- Invented in 1959 by a man named Wessin
- origin
- Named after 18th-century French sideboard furniture
- smörgåsbord
- Sweden gave buffets their endless-spread ancestor
- casino math
- Cheap buffets exist to keep gamblers inside longer
- plate tactics
- Tall food stacks beat wide ones for volume
las vegas buffets — bacchanal buffet at caesars palace serves 500+ dishes daily
indian lunch buffet — all-you-can-eat format popularized in uk curry houses since the 1980s
jimmy buffett — american singer-songwriter, 'margaritaville' 1977