Comments on: Bellagio offers all-you-can-eat caviar

By: retchdog

retchdog — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:28:00 +0000

I didn’t understand it either until I had a five-course meal in a very nice restaurant off the beaten path in France.

Multi-course meals are supposed to have smallish portions and take hours to eat over relaxing conversation. It’s like combining lunch and dinner and having them both over, say, 5-9pm, preferably with a lot of very good wine.

Of course, it’s more profitable to turn over a table in 40 minutes, and ridiculously large portions offer a greater `value’ to the less discerning, so here we are…

By: dawdler

dawdler — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:02:00 +0000

Gives new meaning to the phrase “people spewing out of the exit”.

By: Deadmeat

Deadmeat — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:05:00 +0000

Well technically they did/do exist, but not for vomiting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:59:00 +0000

I gotta come clean… most other BB users are really just sock puppet accounts I use to give myself extra “likes.”

By: dawdler

dawdler — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:49:00 +0000

I hear they’re installing vomitoriums at some of the larger buffets in Vegas.

Little do they know that vomitoriums apparently never existed. It’s perfect that Vegas is, in fact, inventing them.

By: dawdler

dawdler — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:45:00 +0000

no implication, just crustacean.

You need to sell that tagline to Red Lobster or something. It’s perfect.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:17:00 +0000

That’s it, starting today, I’m eating every human I can… I mean, we can’t last much longer, not only are we eating endangered species, there are freaky cannibals out there!

I’m not waiting until this taste treat becomes unavailable!

By: lev36

lev36 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:39:00 +0000

Caviar is overrated. Get a can of poppy seed pastry filling instead – looks the same on a cracker, but is in fact yummy instead of gross.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:52:00 +0000

It wasn’t all-you-can-eat, but I once stayed in a Russian hotel that put out large bowls of red caviar for breakfast.

I’m sure I would have enjoyed it if I hadn’t mistaken it for marmalade.

By: Aloisius

Aloisius — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:23:00 +0000

Personally I tend to like flavored whitefish roe more than most of these (truffled whitefish roe is quite tasty). but my favorite is botargo (cured fish roe – usually mullet). A little sliced onto a dish is amazing.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:11:00 +0000

because MORE is better…ah vegas.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:09:00 +0000

and it only takes 4 hours with an allen wrench to assemble your dinner. :-)

By: retchdog

retchdog — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:04:00 +0000

ditto to stegodon. i haven’t eaten lobster in public in years; at restaurants it’s expensive and often part of an over-elaborate dish (done in order to 1. justify the high prices; 2. bulk up the dish with cheaper ingredients).

it just tastes good. i’ve loved it since i was very young. and what about everyone who didn’t eat lobster just because it was what indentured servants got fed? from wikipedia: “… servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week.”

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:33:00 +0000

To me lobster has an almost sour flavor to it, and I’ve tried it several times. It is a similar flavor that scallops have that I don’t like. Crab is alright, but not something I’ll spend money on.

Honestly for me, in terms of seafood, I love some fresh flounder.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:25:00 +0000

One bucket of delicacies, good Sir! And don’t spare the pomp!

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:20:00 +0000

Most lobster tastes like dirty dish water. Crab is superior by far, and my personal favourite is the Balmain Bug (which is actually a species of lobster). Very sweet and delicious.

By: Ty_MY

Ty_MY — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:19:00 +0000

Go taste whale too, before they’re all gone!

By: Paul Guertin

Paul Guertin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:03:00 +0000

Are they also offering all you can eat truffles (both white and brown button mushrooms), foie gras (actually chopped liver), and champagne (ginger ale)?

By: blueelm

blueelm — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:53:00 +0000

Almost any multi-course meal is more than I can eat. This is really embarrassing at formal dinners. Luckily, I almost *never* have anything like that in my life anymore!

And now that food is an issue, I really am grateful my days of eating what is prepared regardless of how it makes me feel because it would look bad if I didn’t are behind me.

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:46:00 +0000

Salmon and flying fish roe are not caviar.

By: TWX

TWX — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:21:00 +0000

I have never eaten at one, but I’ve heard of restaurants where the prices are not on the menu. The mentality is that if you have to ask, you probably can’t afford to eat there. I would expect that some restaurants like that will just serve you until you’re sated, or will attempt to judge your appetite and serve you accordingly.

By: TWX

TWX — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:59:00 +0000

Heh. I had sworn off Vegas after a combination of vehicle breakdowns and no obviously open repair shops on a Sunday, finding no slot machines that take coins anymore and that everything now runs on a form of plastic, and the end of the Star Trek Experience. Being able to try something normally hideously expensive for only a ridiculously expensive price actually appeals…

By: billstewart

billstewart — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:49:00 +0000

For those of us who don’t eat meat, Ikea has a packaged-like-caviar product made from a black seaweed that’s pretty tasty. It’s not exactly fishy, but it has a salty oceany taste that’s something in the correct direction, and it’s priced like seaweed rather than like caviar.

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:13:00 +0000

Fish eggs
Fish eggs
Roly-poly fish eggs
Fish eggs
Fish eggs
Eat them up
Yum!

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:12:00 +0000

Why do you get 13 likes for just exaggerating my joke? (Must be timing)

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:38:00 +0000

Now this… *pointing with fork, chewing with mouth open, black caviar bits on face and bib* … this, is classy, folks.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:32:00 +0000

Ikura and Tobiko used to be called fish eggs or fish roe to distinguish them from real caviar from sturgeons. Apparently, Big Roe got a PR consultant.

By: stegodon

stegodon — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:24:00 +0000

i just like lobster. i’ll boil a lobster and eat it sitting on the couch in my sweats with my dog. no implication, just crustacean.

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:20:00 +0000

I’ve been fortunate enough to eat at a handful of extraordinarily high quality restaurants where the standard prix fixe meal was more than I could possibly eat. And I have a very, very large appetite.

They generally don’t use the phrase “all you can eat” at those places, though. And they charge a little more than $37.99, too.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:15:00 +0000

But oh, they’re both expennnnnnnsive!

I think people are eating money when they eat such things. It’s supposed to imply that they’re above or better than other people. Which makes what they’re eating taste better (to them).