“Pizza Hut in China stipulated that customers can go to the salad bar only once. The photos below show what the Chinese can do to get around the one trip rule.” This story has been making the rounds, but it’s the sequence of photos–which I’ve finally managed to get uploaded from an e-mail–that really shows how ingenious people can be. At least with a camera watching! I was told that this was considered a business problem in China because Western places like Pizza Hut are expensive, but comparing Chinese people to Americans, it’s hard to imagine that this really is an issue. One of the most horrible experiences I ever had was at a buffet in rural Iowa, where the obese man standing beside me was clearly having trouble breathing as he piled his plate with macaroni and cheese and one of the dozen fried main dishes.