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Please Read - Thanks for the Memories.
I'm starting to come back to life a little bit, but the incredible true story I will be sharing with you guys about this cheese wheel begins like this:
In the summer of 1983, my father sat me down in the living room and told me he was going out for a while. To an "all you can eat buffet" he said. I wish now that I had been able to seen through the thin facade of his cowardly lie.
It's 2013 now, and I have just finished what my own father could never do; all you can eat.
Two years ago I decided to go out looking for him after 28 years of disappearance. I talked to my family members, but gained no useful information. No one wanted to discuss the details of my father's murky disappearance. "Leave well enough alone" They'd say. "There aren't always answers for the tough questions in life" I got frequently. "You're better off going back to whatever it is you were doing." Said some.
Finally, I found an old beggar lady at the mall. She called me over, and after refusing to give her even a thin dime, she told me that I was the one who needed something from her. That she contained all the secrets of my father's gradual decline into self imposed degeneration at the hand of the all you can eat buffet.
In 1983, the local mall near my house piloted a "Cheese Week" in an attempt to increase foot traffic to the newly added dairy area of the food court. The dairy buffet restaurant "With Cheese, Please" introduced an all you can eat buffet, with the grand prize winner receiving an approximately 60 pound wheel of Sharp, Provolone PIccante Cheese.
My father couldn't resist. He was doomed before he even set foot in the restaurant.
He sat down, paid his $6.50, and didn't leave for 28 years.
When I met up with him, in the back booth, he looked a little different. Sullenly and pale.
"Why dad?" I finally said behind a thin veil of tears.
"Because son, at an all you can eat buffet, the only obstacle is yourself."
He handed me a small piece of Sharp, Provolone Piccante Cheese as he passed away from malnutrition right before my own eyes.
He hadn't finished the wheel, but thanks to this listing on Amazon, I can now finish my father's legacy.
May 2013 · Grocery and Gourmet Food