like neon green on baby poop

[rone]

Where the hell did "like white on rice" come from, anyway? Why not "like brown on chocolate", or "like black on coffee", or "like red on blood", or "like orange on..." Well, whatever.

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[rwx.livejournal.com]

It's the polite version of 'like stink on shit.' South Carolinians and Georgians say it, they're one of the parts of the US where rice was a cash crop way back when.

--Corprew

[wisn.livejournal.com]

No, it's a misphrasing of "like whites on rice", coined to describe the phenomenon of Old Country Buffet at opening hour.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

what the fuck is with the rest of the country and this whole buffet thing? I've never lived in a place that had these, are they as horrid as they sound? My only experience with this sort of thing were the AYCS chinese places that used to cover LI in the 90s.

--Corprew

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think old people like buffets because it's bland and uncomplicated food. But i am not an old person.

Buffets - not as bad as they used to be.

[xdice.livejournal.com]

I can remember going to one from time to time as a kid. It was pretty bad.

Down here in Georgia, we have a chain called "Golden Corral", and admittedly, they food isn't too bad. Decent choices, etc., etc.

I like going to buffets with the kids - then they can get what they want without a lot of whining about menu choices, etc.

Ok, this was a much longer reply than I thought. :)

[wisn.livejournal.com]

It's a function of the American quantity = quality formula. Resto owners like it because they save a mint on service staff and still only have to pay sub-minimum restaurant wages.

I like hitting a breakfast buffet once in a rare while, but largely because there are times I have the culinary segment of my brane switched off and I want to get the feeding part of the day over with, and I'm okay with pasty, tasteless breakfasts. I can be slack because I've lost fifty going on sixty pounds in the past two years, but I can't find friends to come along since they get distracted by the scary busloads of disturbingly fat church groups, complete with token disableds riding electric scooters because they're too unwieldy to walk farther on two legs than the distance from the plate dispenser to the roast beef pan.

The Chinese places are a mixed bag. There's one that was serving better food than the sit-down restos, but it looks like they got new managers - the prices went up and the quality dropped.

And the best Indian place in town here is a vegetarian pay-by-weight lunch joint run by a mix of white and native America Rastafaris.

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

In Singapore, lots of people like buffets. If I'm not mistaken buffet eating is the second national past time! :P

[xdice.livejournal.com]

like rone on livejournal

*runs away really fast*

:)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You're pretty brave for somebody who lives in Georgia.

[xdice.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's me, 2700 miles of distance translates into Bravado +3.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

There's possibly a very interesting psychological analysis of the examples you chose to put here, but I'm far from qualified to go into it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

They call me Captain Word Association!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

What about brown rice?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Only terrorists and hippie peaceniks (but i repeat myself) eat brown rice.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

I think I remember the same people who used that phrase also using "like [black or brown] on beans" and "like ugly on an ape." Two or more of these were often used together for effect.