You need to read this Article from Robert St. John in today’s Hattiesburg American. Funny stuff!! I 
heard an old (over weight) preacher once say that it was a Biblical command to “Buffet his body” 1 Cor. 9:27. Yeah I’m a skinny dude but I do have some experience with buffets. My earliest memories of a buffet were at a “restaurant” in Goss, MS. I can’t remember the name of it but they had a seafood buffet. Fried shrimp, fried fish, french fries, hushpuppies, and oh yeah frog legs (they were fried as well). My Mom would always order off of the menu and the lady behind the cash register would watch us, as my dad would say “like a cat”, while we ate to make sure Mom didn’t slip some food off of me or my dad’s plate. Then there was the pizza buffets. The original Pizza buffet was Mr. Gatti’s Pizza. Looks like they are still around, but not in Hattiesburg. I remember trips there to eat pizza and watch the low-def, big screen, fuzzy project TVs they had setup. And then came Shoney’s with the breakfast bar. A bit of trivia here. For a Senior Party (High School) my parents and sister rented a limo that pulled up to my house around 5:30 am in the morning LOADED down with about a dozen of my buddies from school. We were chauffeured to Shoney’s in Hattiesburg where we ate from the “Breakfast Bar” and returned to school in style. I have some video footage of the ride. We were “low” ridin’. In the last few years most of the buffets I’ve attempted had food that tastes the same. You know, you get a little serving of honey-dew melon and a piece of chicken and some green beans and it all tastes the same. Then there is the cleanliness issue. We have friends who refuse to eat at buffets because of the germ potential. I remember seeing a small girl peering over at the food on a buffet under all those bright lights. When suddenly she sneezed. I could see every speck of her projectile settling over all of the food. Needless to say we ordered from the kitchen. Today there are only two non-pizza buffets that my family and I visit and one of them is the Front Porch. We go about once a month on Sunday’s after church. I’m sure some people could apply some of the issues I’ve mentioned above to Front Poarch, but we think the food (or at least what we get) is pretty good and at a pretty good price (At least on Sunday’s).
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