Old Country Buffet

YIKES! We’ve hit the bottom of the barrel - in my opinion. How can a buffet have so many yucky choices? The carrot and raisin salad was runny with too much mayo. Yuck! The baked potato was dry and then ruined further by a very strong horseradish sauce. Yuck! The overdone, dry barbequed chicken breast had bacon wrapped around it, which formed an odd combination with barbeque sauce. Yuck! The salmon filet was fishy tasting and smelling. Yuck! The orange chicken was very heavily battered and then deep fried with the orange sauce added. I can’t say "yuck", because it was pretty tasty, but it surely wasn’t good for you. And it was lukewarm. Yuck! The boiled cabbage was floating in its serving dish, ready to drown your plateful of other foods. Yuck! The macaroni and cheese was soggy pasta in white sauce, sans cheese. Yuck! Even the desserts – the lemon bars were dry and lacked lemon flavor. Yuck! The soft serve ice milk was soft serve ice milk. Yuck!

There were, in my opinion, two edible items I encountered. The baked beans were very good. They were not a soggy mass of unidentifiable goop. They were still firm and had a nice flavor. The warm chocolate pudding cake was also okay. At least it did taste of chocolate.

I didn’t bother to check the ladies bathroom. If the food is disgusting, you aren’t going to come here whether the bathrooms are clean or not.

This nasty restaurant was full of people at 6 PM on Wednesday evening, with more coming in all the time. Most of the customers were families with very small children who, poor things, have no taste and no choice of where to learn to have taste. And seniors. Many seniors. The Old Country Buffet is not cheap enough to warrant coming here. Dinner during the week is $10.49 each. Sure, it’s all you can eat. But who would eat such garbage at any price?

Well... I can answer that. The Man Whose Mother Was A Lousy Cook And Therefore Has No Memories That Include GOOD Home Cooking (except mine, which tends toward what The Man considers "funky", that is, it might include a mushroom or two) said he’d be back.

He’ll have to do it alone.

Only ten more days to be...
Kitchenless in Brookfield