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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Wendy Dershem may think twice before leaving that egg roll on her plate at her next Chinese buffet. The Des Moines woman, her boyfriend and her two children were kicked out of a restaurant last week after management accused her of leaving too much food on her plate.
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Employees said they had been watching her family on previous trips to the restaurant and were fed up with her habits.

''They just take one bite and throw it away,'' said cashier Lin Huyen. ''They take four egg rolls and crab ragoon, take one bite of egg roll and throw the whole plate. That is wasting food.''

I don't go often, but I have been known to visit a Chinese buffet in my area. Because of who I am, I take small portions, only go back once, and eat everything I take. But that's just me. Yes, my parents gave me the lecture about impoverished children. Yes, I've traveled in the third world and ~seen starvation and crushing poverty. However that's not why I behave the way I do.

I choose to take only what I can eat because I like looking at myself in a mirror. Having additional food on my plate means I might eat more than I actually need to feel full. Since going to a Chinese Buffet is more of an occasional treat than a typical event, I like to enjoy my meal, chat at the table, relax and take my time. I watch the frenzied guzzling of other patrons and wonder.

I've always viewed with distaste people pilling pounds upon pounds of food on their plate until you wonder if it will all compress like a Big Mac. Yes, it's all you can eat, but for the love of wasabi, have some fucking couth - it doesn't have to be all you can gobble down with minimal chewing.

Another thing holds me back, in terms of extreme eating behavior, it's that the staff is always whisper thin. This becomes all the more striking when the family next to me is typically stress-testing the cold-rolled steel chairs under their more than generous posteriors. Fat people kill my appetite. Maybe if I were eating in the same room as a super-model convention I could go back for a third plate, not sure. Porking out on mounds of food might be gross, but if they finish the whole plate I really can't complain. However the worst possible sin, imho, is waste.

Wendy Dershem, you and your fucking family are disgusting. It's understandable to leave something you actually didn't like, but to take the same food you just left on your plate? Wtf is that matter with you? Honestly, the best solution to people like you is to be shipped to a sugar cane farm on another continent and made to learn the value of what we have. It's gross and pathetic to teach your kids that's a buffet is nothing more than a food playground, and the wait staff is there to shovel out the slop you took but declined to consume. She tried to whine and cry that they only went to the buffet once that time, and didn't get to go back for more, but the staff was clear that this was typical behavior that they had witnessed plenty in the past.

It might be all you can eat, but it's not all you can waste.