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Childhood Buffet Memories: Marriott, Itkins, and Mom's Affair
from Pizza Hut Buffet · #32
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5 minTim reminisces about the Marriott breakfast buffet in Uniondale, an ice cream parlor called Itkins in Valley Stream where his mother had an emotional almost-affair with a married cook who called her 'Patty Slides,' and other beloved Long Island buffets.
- 39:58Tim describes arriving at Pizza Hut on a 95-degree day with a belly full of pizza and other people's sweat.
- 40:48The thin driver is fingering the icing off the cinnamon stick without self-awareness, revealing what Tim calls everyone's inner fat person.
- 41:05Tim explains the difference between the driver's unselfconscious sexualized eating and how people who are aware recognize their own disgust while doing the same thing.
- 41:47Tim reflects on how his childhood memories with his parents centered on food, which is why he's pre-diabetic.
- 42:05He recalls the Marriott breakfast buffet in Uniondale, where his family would arrive a half-hour late to school because of it.
- 42:36Tim's mother loved Itkins, an ice cream parlor in Valley Stream, and developed feelings for the short-order cook there during her divorce.
- 42:53The cook at Itkins would talk to Tim's mother late at night while she sat in the booth, leaving work to eat there on her way home.
- 43:16The cook called Tim's mother 'Patty Slides' because she would slide into the booth, which she interpreted as affectionate despite being over 200 pounds.
- 43:33Tim lists the buffets his mother took him to: Pizza at Lunch, Marriott breakfast, and Old Country Buffet in Levittown near Tri-County flea market.
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