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Buffets feel like an unbounded solution to optimizing for calories per dollar, which is a ridiculous thing to focus on as an overweight engineer!
by Scaevolus 7y ago
Buffets feel like an unbounded solution to optimizing for calories per dollar, which is a ridiculous thing to focus on as an overweight engineer!
- madsbuch 7y agoWell, no? As stated in the article, the truffles and oysters were hidden. This is assumingly because people optimise for most expensive dishes. If one would optimise for calories, she'd just take the cake and fatty meats (which are also usually cheaper meats).
- kbutler 7y agoOptimizing calories per dollar suggests hitting the cheap starch, which is even cheaper away from the buffet. Optimizing expensive-food-per-dollar would hit the meats, rather than the highest-calorie options.
- syntheticnature 7y agoThere is one other aspect about buffets: food is available quickly. This is primarily useful when traveling, if one wants to have warm food with significant cooked vegetable content (keeping in mind the aspects raised in other comment threads) without adding an hour or more to the trip.