Well, this revolting development as Jackie Gleason would say.
I'm not referring here to gambling on getting food poisoning from industrial Haddock or geriatric oysters.
No, this is far more sinister.
When meatless Fridays were still in the common memory, even in the 1990s, you could still find seafood buffets in most gambling casinos on Fridays.
While a few casinos still offer a seafood buffet, they are few and far between and not exclusive to Fridays.
This can't be a good thing.
Wynn, in Las Vegas, has a nightly seafood buffet which is nearly equivalent in price to a down payment for a new Toyota.
It's not that I oppose the enjoyment of seafood any day of the week, it's just that the abandonment of Friday-centric seafood buffets in casinos strikes me as being a terrible poverty, if not heretical.
And for this, we have Vatican 2 to hold responsible.
Francis and his curia need to be pressed on this.
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1. I've been in a casino a time or two, but long enough ago that I don't remember.
2. I no longer eat from/at public buffets. I stopped doing that years ago, way before covid or swine flu. I especially would not wish to eat from a casino buffet.
3. I always looked forward to Fridays back when I was in school. In grade school during the late 50s - mid-60's, Friday cafeteria lunches included fish sticks and/or crab rolls. I always went with the crab rolls. Later on during high school years, Fridays would bring out the large pots of shrimp and seafood gumbo, which had the appearance of a good duck marsh, and a flavor like no other. Now-days, things are different. Even at the last cigar & dinner (& another cigar) event that I attended at the local Seafarer's center, on a Friday evening, the main coarse was some sort of fancy schmancy chicken dish, which was very disappointing.
2. I no longer eat from/at public buffets. I stopped doing that years ago, way before covid or swine flu. I especially would not wish to eat from a casino buffet.
3. I always looked forward to Fridays back when I was in school. In grade school during the late 50s - mid-60's, Friday cafeteria lunches included fish sticks and/or crab rolls. I always went with the crab rolls. Later on during high school years, Fridays would bring out the large pots of shrimp and seafood gumbo, which had the appearance of a good duck marsh, and a flavor like no other. Now-days, things are different. Even at the last cigar & dinner (& another cigar) event that I attended at the local Seafarer's center, on a Friday evening, the main coarse was some sort of fancy schmancy chicken dish, which was very disappointing.
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Sort of like a tithe.Del wrote: 05 Aug 2024, 22:59 Friday night seafood buffet at the casino is one heckuva penance to offer up.
I used to be amused that casinos would cater to their Catholic guests on Fridays.
"Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys."
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