Pizza Street Buffet, Kansas City

2009 March 14
by mockers

The Street Like many people, I was deeply impoverished as a young adult.   I had student loans to pay.  I had a shitty entry-level job and no money in the bank. Of course, I could always find money for beer and other related shenanigans – but paying the rent and keeping food, clothes and shelter around always seemed like an incredibly tall order.  That’s where The Street came into play.

The Street is a buffet-style franchise that’s never really made it out of the Kansas City area.   Their claim to fame used to be $2.99 all-you-can-eat pie.  The weird thing about it was that it wasn’t really that bad.  If one played their cards right they could go to “The Street” late in the day, gorge themselves as much as possible and have their food needs covered for about three days.  Nobody could quite figure out exactly how it was so cheap.  There were several “soylent pie”-based theories that no one was ever able to confirm or deny.  The explanation I liked the best was the “angry sauce” theory:

My friend Mitchell realized that every time he would eat their food, he would suddenly and inexplicably get angry, be a dick to people and have a terrible day.  He theorized that the franchise was actually operated by Satan himself and the reason that the food was so cheap was  because Satan wanted to widely distribute the angry sauce and turn people against one another.  I don’t really think he believed the theory as he was an aggressive atheist, but he never wanted to eat there after he developed the idea.

So anyway, I moved away from the area for three years and I’ve just now gotten an opportunity to return to “The Street” .  The price has increased to $4.49 (hey man, even Lucifer’s got overhead), but other than that, nothing’s changed.  The food was halfway decent, the clientele was the epitome of the “holy shit, we’re broke” demographic and I’m sitting here, two hours later, pissed as hell for no reason.

These here colors don't run

These here colors don't run

Now, because the food is unlimited and cheap as hell, the clientele is similar to what one might find at Wal-Mart…and like Wal-Mart, one of these guys must be on duty at all times.  You can’t see it because of my shitty cell phone, but there’s a bald eagle on his shirt.  I’ve always found it strange that the people who have the most right to be pissed at this country are the ones that are usually the most vocal (and tacky) in their support of it.  Hey, nobody’s mocking patriotism here…just the tacky assed shirt that was probably made in China anyway.

Nonchalantly Keeping an Eye Out for Her Eyebrows

Nonchalantly Keeping an Eye Out for Her Eyebrows

This lady sat behind me.  She was obviously out for a Saturday night dinner.  Her blouse was silkesque.  Her boobs were appropriately exposed for family dining at a discount buffet.  She was all set for a night to remember.  Except her brows apparently had other plans…

Get Some!
Get Some!

This, of course, is a blurry shot of two grown men pumping quarters into the 2006 Namco release “Time Crisis 4″ Which, according to Wikipedia revolves around the following plot:

A top secret weapon is about to be smuggled by an international terrorist network called “Western Order Liberation Front” or “W.O.L.F.”  Gathering this info, the U.S. Army’s Internal Surveillance Unit instructs Captain William Rush to head to Central California to investigate the smuggling deal between hostiles. At the self-same instant, the European Union orders Giorgio Bruno and Evan Bernard (two agents from the VSSE International Intelligence Agency) to do the same.” Huh, must be that ‘mental escape from economic crisis’ I keep reading about.  Anyway, to close out the category, heres a shot of the very same men teaching one of our lil’est patriots how to handle his weapon.
Coochie Coochie KILL THOSE FUCKIN' NAZI'S!!!
Coochie Coochie KILL THOSE FUCKIN’ NAZI’S!!!

So…if you’re in the Kansas City metro area, poor as shit and don’t mind financially supporting Satan himself *allegedly*. Give ‘The Street’ a try.  At the very least it makes for some tremendous people watchin’.

2 Responses leave one →
  1. 2013 May 31
    Kat permalink

    Very true.
    Not a very romantic way to spend a Saturday night. Poor poor people.

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