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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
I would never even had thought of Golden as a possible healthy alternative. We'll give it a try.
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We've been going to them since the days we were into our younger omnivorious 'See-Food' years(if we see it we eat it) and when we started to pay a bit more attention to what went down the hatches, we gave up.
Many were just sinking below standard for cleanliness, and the food seemed to go toward the greasy, mess-hall style.
We stayed away til the doc introduced us to the Villages, so we're back.
It is a model location compared to the ones here in the Mid Atlantic, though we have not been to a local one in awhile.
The one on the way from Orlando on 27 is a close second if we can't hold off til we get to the compound.
As a medicine man, you have probably seen the symptoms and effects of an over indulgence of artery-clogging fat and other substances.
If you want to eat like a cow or horse (plant based) or weigh as much as one (fried, fat, sugar) the Corral has it all.
Here's one of many, many guides on line:
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/...tery.asp?id=48
Even though it's 'all you care to eat', the value depends on profit and minimal waste.
What we and the more considerate Buffet-goers do is to take a little of each of any unknowns, and get more of the winners.
What worked for us was to experiment and find out what was 'good' for us and try to balance it what 'we liked'
After awhile we found that we could wean ourselves more away from some of the 'bad stuff' or at least consider some of it 'feast food' for special occassions.
One of the things many places do is to lace ordinary foods with taste triggers
like sugar and fat. Our local restaurant used to make their own italian bread and people consumed it it mass quantities -
To the body, most bread is like white sugar anyway, white bread even worse,
and the baker added insult to injury by pouring leftover cooking lard into the dough.
Here's a nifty clip of how to make cheap food good.
(NOTE: Some may need to swallow your food and drink before watching)
Edit:
WHUPS- we did not realize that the eight letter word would be in sight
Glad we are adults
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We'd not be surprised to find some of these 'mm-mm-good' places people frequent performing some of the shenanigans in some way at least.
No , we don't have any connection other than being regulars, and the GC is one of the top reasons we like TV. Eating there saves time, we get to chat with our friends, get things done, and not have to prep or clean up.
Saves a lot of valuable time
The question after the morning ride is often not
where we'll meet for lunch, but
when
One or two of the cooks knows one of us well enough that when we walk up to an item, and hold the ladle, they tell us how it was cooked and with what!
Yes, the poster with the concern for germs... hmmm... sure, maybe, but as a responder said, our TV location has few kids, and during the mid afternoon it's less crowded.
Besides, at a non-buffet, there are many ways to contamination behind the kitchen wall. Taking a deep breath in some places can hit you with as much or more poison and other airborne gremlins as a shared pair of tongs.
We all survived buffets over half century ago long before sneeze guards, didn't we?
Your bod, your choice.
Buon appetito
L and L