The Seven Deadly Sins in Los Angeles: Gluttony

The quintessential buffet for the glutton, the patrons here tend to not only be fat but extremely ugly as well.

World renowned for their annual glutfest they call “Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest”, this chain is synonomous with overeating the world over. Too bad the hot dogs aren’t that great, but just for kicks I got four down before I started to swoon a little.

Every Halloween, Boulevard 3 Nightclub has a 7 Deadly Sins theme night. Be sure to save some room in your slutty digs if you want to experience the Gluttony Room.

I’ve only vomited once or thrice from overindulging in food (alcohol is a completely different matter) but the champagne brunch on the Queen Mary was one experience I will never forget. Eating too much + on a boat = Hell.

Now featuring “Bachelorette” a biting, satirical play about women and their gluttinous alcohol and drug binges. Sounds sort of like Gossip Girl but without the alarming trend in teen sexual activity.

You know the clientele is skewed towards big eaters when customers routinely can’t fit into booths and require table seating. After working here for six months, I actually lost weight from being so disgusted by people’s eating habits; which is not to say that the ribs aren’t delicious!

All you can eat sushi for $24.95? Word to the wise: “Special” at a sushi bar actually means “going bad and need to get rid of it right away”. Take that and spin on it for a while.

In this day of soaring food costs, you would think that Chinese lunch buffets would become as insolvent as those unfortunate wall street banks that got pinched by the credit crunch. And yet, Super Panda China Buffet is consistently packed. The food is OK, if you don’t mind eating MSG with a bit of rice and vegetables thrown in for flavor.

As a former fatty (5’9" 225 lbs) I have to give props where props are due. Unfortunately for Jenny Craig, I not only did not lose any weight on this program but ended up gaining 15 pounds. Granted I surreptitiously snuck in a few of their delicious Salisbury steak boxes in between my prescribed meals, but like any good American I place the blame entirely on somebody else.