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| - I am very open-minded, and I always grade a buffet restaurant "on-the-curve", knowing that I should expect a different standard of food quality and freshness because it is a buffet, and despite this, Uncle Bob's Country Buffet still managed to underwhelm.
Normally at a buffet, even if some of the food is questionable quality or freshness, I can always find a few items that make me happy and I can base a good meal experience around those items.
Sorry Uncle Bob, it was tough to find any items on your lunch menu that I could get excited about, and there were a few items that were truly horrible.
The biggest disappointment was the fried chicken, an item that I previously thought was pretty hard to screw up, as I can really enjoy Fried Chicken from home, from cheap and cheerful joints, even from the Colonel! But Uncle Bob's Fried Chicken is weirdly quadrupled-breaded in some bland anonymous doughy mess that tasted like nothing, and delivered only a terrible doughy-chalky texture. The Shepherd's Pie, also hard to screw up, was deeply screwed up.
The best item was probably the barbecue rotisserie chicken thighs, they were nothing special, but they were certainly edible. And I didn't hate their not-quite-Taco-Bell-quality tacos, nor the spaghetti and meat sauce with meatballs, all of which were not at all "Country" and a little unusual (sweetened meatballs?) but not entirely horrible.
Even the soft-serve was bland and icy, with the sticky toffee pudding being the only semi-likeable dish on the desserts side.
All in all, everyone in my party agreed, we were completely unimpressed.
Uncle Bob, you are no Golden Corral Buffet, and even "Mother Tucker's Mediocre Marketplace" has nothing to worry about.
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