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In early October 2012, stories emerged in the British media reporting that two portly men, one of whom was a former rugby player, were kicked out of an all-you-can-eat buffet for taking the establishment up on its offer and actually eating all they possibly could: The two gamely posed for photographs holding their presumably empty bellies and extending their hands in bowl shapes as if to ask for more in Oliver Twist fashion. As Cracked.com pointed out in a March 2017 round-up of ironic stories swallowed whole by the public, there are two sides to the story, and it's unclear if the men were really kicked out of the restaurant for the amount they ate or for bad manners — or for a combination of factors. We sent a message to co-owner Peter Westgate, but haven't heard back. According to Dalmon, who we contacted via Facebook messenger, the restaurant has closed due to bad press. The BBC spoke to Westgate in 2012, who said Dalmon and Miles were barred from the restaurant because they created a disturbance with their voraciousness: Dalmon rejects that account. He told us: As a result of the GOBi restaurant saga, Dalmon landed a show with Channel 4 called the 2,000,000 Calorie Buffet, a comedic challenge in which he is invited to restaurants to see if I can beat them or they can beat me. He told us he's now in talks about taking the show international. Getting ejected from an all-you-can-eat buffet for eating all one can eat is a common comedic trope, one that formed plot of an episode of the long-running animated series The Simpsons, among others. It was also the subject of a viral (but fake) news story from 2016, in which a fictional 51-year-old welfare recipient spent seven hours eating up to 70 pounds of food at a Golden Corral restaurant in Massachusetts, and then supposedly sued the chain after they gave him the boot.
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