My parents recently moved to New Jersey, and they took a trip to Atlantic City during which they sampled some of the omnipresent buffets. Here’s what my dad had to say about them.

As the principal mainstay of an Atlantic City diet is the buffet I decided to try some. I found that most were not open. This was despite the fact that several large billboards, and assorted flashing banner signs three feet high advertised that they were open. To further disappoint, the casino we arrived at as part of the transportation was handing out fifty percent off coupons to their closed restaurant; It put in mind of the old joke about the butcher whose customer complained about the price of steak being too high, “The Safeway has it on sale for half that amount,” complained the customer. “And how much steak has the Safeway?” asked the butcher. “Why none,” replied the customer. “Well come back on Tuesday, and I won’t have any either, and, I’ll sell it to you for 78 percent off!”

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