I vaguely miss Ponderosa. But strangely, Sizzler and Golden Corral never caught on in Canada. Some people who like Big also like Cheap. (I’m thrifty but have my limits.)
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Ponderosa is a blast from the past. Never been, but I do remember it. I don’t know what Sizzler is but it sounds steaky. I went to a Golden Corral once while I was eating to gainz but it was unremarkable.
I like the butterscotch buffett pudding though. If I go to one, thats usually the dominant choice among my selections.
Edit: and pistachio.
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Once a month in the 70s, mom and dad, my best friend and his mom and dad would go to Ponderosa for sirloin steaks…that was a treat back then
it was on 19 heading towards cranberry from wexford
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This isn’t the confession thread, but I confess that I am STILL a fan of the Golden Corral.
My dad did a lot of business in Vegas when I was a kid. And to put a timestamp on that, that means the 90s, so think of Vegas then. It means that I spent a LOT of time at cheap buffets (which is one of the many many reasons I was a fat kid). In turn, cheap buffets are DIRECTLY linked into the dopamine and nostalgia centers of my brain. As soon as I walk into one, suddenly I’m 9 years old again at the Excalibur (which, again, think about how AWESOME that hotel was to a 9 year old kid: knights and swordfighting and unfiltered camel cigarette smoke and flashing lights and the sounds of coins hitting metal).
And the worst part is: I’ve infected my own kid now as a result. Because when the Mrs is away, we make a beeline to the Golden Corral, because my wife actually has some dignity and I won’t force her to debase herself. But meanwhile, my kid loves these special little outings, which means they’ll most likely pass it on to their own kid.
Also, Sizzler was legit, and I’m excited that they’re supposedly making a comeback. My Mom would take me there when I was in high school, once wrestling season ended, and I’d jump up about 2 weight classes, eating from a salad bar with no salad.
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If a salad bar does not contain fried chicken, is it even a salad bar?
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There’s good naked and bad naked. 
I don’t know if that is either one.
I went snowboarding for a long weekend once with, unbeknownst to me, part of a nudist family. My buddy hadn’t told me about it until his mom (who had absolutely taken very good care of herself) came out from “getting changed”.
I just about had to poke my eyes out to keep from oogling my buddys mom.
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Kids these days. A couple episodes of The Road Runner could have prevented this.
They keep me busy though. Nobody got hurt, which is great. It would have taken a lot longer to be funny if someone had.
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Lol. Awesome.
Dont tell us the story ends there, lol lol
Can’t count the striations can you? 
Looking more like “sharms”….no detail separating his shoulders from his arms. It still make me chuckle these days how you see headlines like this, when by now the general public is very aware of what “jacked” arms really look like…and they ain’t this! This headline should exist back in 1950, when arms like this would have actually been a big deal compared to the average man back then.
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The forearms alone…
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This headline should exist back in 1950, when arms like this would have actually been a big deal compared to the average man back then.
Perhaps we live in very different regions, because for me, when the average man is looking like this
Or this
I’m not at all shocked to see the media go agog over a dude in his 50s who hasn’t let himself decline.
And honestly, I say: let the decline continue! Do you realize how easy it is to look awesome right now when the denominator is so low? I don’t even need a set of abs any more: I just have to be “not fat”.
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HAHAHHA, that’s funny you think that way because I always remind my wife that, “Babe, do you realize that you are married to one of the hottest men in his mid 40s in the country?” And she’ll laugh and say that yes, she agrees, and she’ll say yeah most men my age look like 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag…literally. That they look like they gave up on life ages ago….that they look like they eat at the Golden Corral everyday (this gross all you can eat buffet place with shit food).Then we both laugh. And I’m not exactly Brad Pitt in the looks department, but you can easily tell that I lift heavy and used to be a bodybuilder when I’m just wearing regular clothes. But you’re right, let em keep getting more and more obese and gross…it just makes those of us who lift and take care of ourselves look better. The bar is VERY low I agree. And me either, I don’t have that coveted six pack, but I also can see my junk when i look down. I always wonder about that “man, how do all these guys mentally handle looking down and not even be able to see their junk? Doesn’t it freak them out? Or at least set off alarm bells that they’ve let themselves go a little too far?” Eh, but I guess the fact they look the way they do answers that no, they don’t seem to care that they can’t see it.
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like they eat at the Golden Corral everyday (this gross all you can eat buffet place with shit food).
Don’t hate on me for liking all you can eat steaks!
But yeah, I’m with you. Everyone should have that “holy sh*t” moment physiquewise where they realize they’ve let things go too far and need to reign it back it, but it appears, for many, that moment is a LONG way off.
I like Golden Corral, it’s nostalgic for me.
Filling up booths and tables with your aunts, uncles, and cousins…..
And you’re just kid being so amazed at the desert section because it has cotton candy.
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