[CanadianJeff]

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Lemmy Lemmy:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Open bars at weddings would never work in the UK or Eire either. The fuckers would bring buckets to drink from.

When we were planning our wedding, Mrs. Lemmy's parents wanted to have an open bar. Caribbean weddings are typically open-bar affairs. My parents tried to explain what would happen with a crew of Scots at an open bar, but Mrs. Lemmy's father would have none of it. He footed the whole tab and never complained a word about it.

Could have been worse... imagine if your family was Irish.

Our open bar ran out before the night was over. Cleaned right out.

I bartend for a second evening job and I can tell you I've worked quite a few open bars over the last 8 months.

The absolute worst was the Iraqis. The family was fairly rich (think $20,000 500 person wedding. Then do it again a week later!) and with both weddings we worked for them they brought in a few a pallets of booze and got cleaned out both times. The second time we actually went to the liquor store and restocked only to come close to getting cleaned out again.

But that's not even the worst part. Out of the 500 people about half were women and they are not allowed to drink in that culture. It was all the guys that drank it away. Last call with that crowd meant calling last call about an hour before you intended to shut it down.

[2Cdo]

Benn Benn:

In buffets in Brazil you pay for for what you take based on how much your plate weighs at the end of the buffet line. You'd have to be well off to be fat and eat there a lot.

Found a few buffets in New York City that do the same.

[raydan]

We have some of those here, one of them being "Le Commensal", which is a vegetarian restaurant.

There are a few in the province and one in Toronto.

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