An individual who consumes, nay attacks, a buffet with the vigorous and unrelenting nature of someone fighting for their very life.
Leaving the table(s) both empty as well as damaged, these people leave nothing but napkins in their wake and chill the soul of restauranters who offer 'all you can eat'.
Thomas: "Holy Spaghetti Monster, that person must be hungry! Look at her pile up her plate!"
The act of grabbing a bunch of stuff you may never use or eat, just because you are not paying on a per-item basis.
Notes:
If you eat, use, or directly pay for all you take then Buffet Effect is NOT an applicable term
If you paid over $35.00 per person Las Vegas and don’t eat everything on your plate before getting a new plate, then it is NOT the buffet effect. This falls under “getting your money’s worth”.
“Those kids have four plates of deserts at their table. To avoid the embarrassment of Buffet Effect, those parentsbetter make them eat all of it”
A generally large shit taken after eating at a buffet (old country, Chinese, etc.) It usually happens with 15-120 minutes after eating. Usually relaxing and can sometimes end your stomach ache
The irrepressible musk that hangs heavy in the air around a buffet table, a pungent odour composed primarily of suitably aired scotch eggs, essentially meatless sausage rolls, pies of indiscernible filling, crisps inexplicably spread across a paper plate and cups of sugarless carbonated fruited pop, usually cherry flavoured. Can cause nausea, particularly when hungover.
'Jesus, I just got hit with the buffet smell when I walked in, I think I have to leave'
'What's with the rancid buffet smell in here?'
'Ian, can you eat your scotch eggs, sausage rolls and pickle pork pie somewhere else? It smells like a buffet in here.'