It intrinsically means too many dishes and too much food, impossible to be savored in one sitting. But since we only get charged a fixed amount, we utilize as much as not even possible to digest or even chew in given time. We spill or end up throwing most of the pile from the plates at the end, but it doesn’t matter, the real thing is to maximize the restaurant expenses. But they still make money, nevertheless; lowering the food quality even more, is one thing, secondly there are never all freaks some only eat to fill their appetite for which they are being overcharged, ironically.
The fact that in the month of “Ramzan”, the Buffet dinners are a custom is most distressing to me. How I see, it is against the very spirit of the month. First of all, the purpose of fasting is to promote the qualities of “Sabr” and “Taqwah” amongst Muslims, besides other virtues. I wonder how that is fulfilled by wasting loads of food, which could have been offered to poor and needy, who are in abundance. I mean what good or satisfaction a piece of meat, going to the waste-bin, brings me or to anyone else?
Someone told me a couple of examples, which really are disturbing; KFC offered an “Iftar” deal, eat as much as you can, and one of our esteemed colleagues, read it as “eat as much of the zinger meat as possible and throw matching amount of bread to waste”, Pizza Hut, same kind of offer, eat as much pizza as you can, and another of our colleagues reads it as “eat as much of the topping as you can and throw all the base to waste” (It’s another story that Pizza Hut would bake “Nan” instead of pizza to help the cause). These are educated people! I think it shows the dearth of humanity in us, collectively.
How do we advocate a welfare Islamic state in our talks then (those of us who do at all)? Are these the traits of individuals eager to step into such welfare state? I wish we grow up and settle with the fact that, by the grace of Allah, we will surely have another meal after the one sitting on our tables.
