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February 17th, 2017 at 7:22:24 PM permalink
What is the worst dining experience you've had in Las Vegas: the kind of place you WOULD want your worst enemy to eat at?
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February 17th, 2017 at 7:57:48 PM permalink
Well other than the obvious White Castle which I can't for the life of me understand why people eat that horrid crap this is a tough question. I really don't think I've had that many bad meals in Las Vegas. I thought that the Luxor buffet was mediocre at best but it's the Luxor. I mean for me I don't go just anywhere, I look up places before going. You've stumped me Mr. V

OH WAIT A SECOND!!! The buffet at Silver Sevens is inedible lol. I used to go there all the time when I lived in Vegas and they would comp me food all the time. I usally ate in the restaurant but one day I tried the breakfast buffet and there wasn't anything edible on this buffet. I wouldn't recommend it lol.
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February 17th, 2017 at 8:29:49 PM permalink
Quote: MrV

What is the worst dining experience you've had in Las Vegas: the kind of place you WOULD want your worst enemy to eat at?

Circus breakfast buffet. The food tasted like the metal from the pans.
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February 17th, 2017 at 8:31:26 PM permalink
That's easy for me to answer. The Guatamalan food joint by UNLV that nearly killed me with food poisoning. Read my blog entry JUST RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL for the whole story.
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February 17th, 2017 at 8:33:46 PM permalink
Quote: AxelWolf

Circus breakfast buffet. The food tasted like the metal from the pans.


I actually thought it was pretty good. Well, at least in 2011.
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February 17th, 2017 at 8:35:06 PM permalink
I remember the running joke on the bj21 free boards about not eating at the IP buffet. Boy were they right!!
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:18:53 PM permalink
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I actually thought it was pretty good. Well, at least in 2011.

I used to eat there somewhat regularly in the early 90s, back when they had a bunch of very good bonus VP games. You are probably wondering why I kept eating there if it was so bad? I would get lots of comps, so it was free. I stayed away from anything cooked. I would just eat cereal and things like that for breakfast. I had friends that really didn't care, they would eat anything if it was free.

They have improved a lot since then, at least for dinner and lunch(it's been at least 3 years since I have eaten at anything at CC. I haven't been to the breakfast since they took out the good machines pre 1999.

I can still remember the metallic taste of all the cooked food.

Their Steakhouse has always been a very good experience.
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:32:17 PM permalink
I don't know if it is still there, but there was a snack bar in the Horseshoe that advertised their chili with a big sign. Hey, they're promoting it with a big sign... It must be good right?... WRONG! Oh, so wrong....
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:36:22 PM permalink
Old Excalibur buffet... 8-9 years ago. It was the spitting image of the "we only need one plate" Vegas Vacation buffet.
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:42:41 PM permalink
Gold Coast lunch and dinner buffet are really quite bad. Palace station I've heard bad things about the buffet, only tried the breakfast. It wasn't good, but breakfast is tough to mess up too badly. Before it was silver sevens, which I haven't tried, Terrible's buffet was aptly named.
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:42:47 PM permalink
I did not like Hash House A Go-Go at all, but the service was really good. That's the only place I wouldn't go again unless any company I had insisted on it.
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February 17th, 2017 at 9:46:25 PM permalink
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Well other than the obvious White Castle which I can't for the life of me understand why people eat that horrid crap .



Couldn't agree more. White Castle burgers have to be the worst tasting thing ever that technically qualifies as food. It's like someone ate a burger, chewed it up and spit it out, then they put it on a bun and served it. And most stuff that tastes like crap is at least good for you unlike that garbage. Amazing that theres a chain of them, much less one.
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:09:34 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

I don't know if it is still there, but there was a snack bar in the Horseshoe that advertised their chili with a big sign. Hey, they're promoting it with a big sign... It must be good right?... WRONG! Oh, so wrong....

Interesting. Lots downtowners went there just for the chili. I have had it many times and I thought it was always fairly good. Their snack bar and deli always seemed good and reasonably priced. The burgers were always good too.
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:16:01 PM permalink
Quote: Mission146

I did not like Hash House A Go-Go at all, but the service was really good. That's the only place I wouldn't go again unless any company I had insisted on it.

You are just mad that you lost some prop bets.

Not a big fan myself. They make some strange salty gluttonous stuff. Why not just glop some bacon grease on some buttered bread?
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:16:49 PM permalink
Don't remember if it was Terribles or Silver Sevens at the time, but.....yeah, the buffet was awful. I hadn't eaten there before, and my uncle was in town -- he invited me over to eat at the buffet. I said sure, why not. Well, we get to the front of the line to pay, and he had some 2-for-1 deal or 50% off, and our total was something like $8 combined (I don't remember exactly). But next thing I see, he's pulling out $4 from his wallet and he's looking at me, like, "Well, come on, it's $4!" Not that I really cared, but thought it was kinda funny, as I just automatically assumed he'd pay for my $4 buffet.

Anyway, the buffet was completely awful.


I'm usually pretty good with food, I can eat just about anything (except that weird nasty oriental sh**, like chicken paws or sea urchin eggs or whatever else the hell is wonky on the menu).
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:25:36 PM permalink
+1 for the terribles buffet.

In their defense the name implies what it is.

My food was free and still I felt I paid too much for it.
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:35:34 PM permalink
Quote: AxelWolf

You are just mad that you lost some prop bets.

Not a big fan myself. They make some strange salty gluttonous stuff. Why not just glop some bacon grease on some buttered bread?



When I have guys like Wizard and yourself as my opponents, I'm pretty much guaranteed to be getting my money in bad! Usually I get it in good, but you guys are slick!

That's exactly my problem with it, much like many of the restaurants in my area. It's just pointless crap with a bunch of salt and gelatinous fat poured all over it. Flavor is great, obviously, but I prefer getting my flavor from spices, not pure lard...lol
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:35:53 PM permalink
Stay far far away from the Palace Station buffet. All Stations buffet meat is subpar. I have often wondered if it is a quality issue or that they just don't know how to cook a piece of meat.

What's with having to ask for "country scrambled" in order to get a real egg in Vegas?
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:37:02 PM permalink
Quote: djatc

+1 for the terribles buffet.

In their defense the name implies what it is.

My food was free and still I felt I paid too much for it.



Well, yeah, how much is a day of your life worth? Now, multiply that amount by three and then by how many times you've eaten there.
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:38:45 PM permalink
Quote: MaxPen

Stay far far away from the Palace Station buffet. All Stations buffet meat is subpar. I have often wondered if it is a quality issue or that they just don't know how to cook a piece of meat.

What's with having to ask for "country scrambled" in order to get a real egg in Vegas?



The only real egg is over easy, though I can excuse Eggs Benedict as passable. I thought the buffet at Main Street Station was okay, remembered liking the Kielbasa, peppery and smoky, maybe just a good day?
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:43:52 PM permalink
Quote: MaxPen

Stay far far away from the Palace Station buffet. All Stations buffet meat is subpar. I have often wondered if it is a quality issue or that they just don't know how to cook a piece of meat.

What's with having to ask for "country scrambled" in order to get a real egg in Vegas?



This sounds like a conspiracy.
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February 17th, 2017 at 10:57:51 PM permalink
Quote: AxelWolf

Interesting. Lots downtowners went there just for the chili. I have had it many times and I thought it was always fairly good. Their snack bar and deli always seemed good and reasonably priced. The burgers were always good too.



Plus one on binions chili and the snack bar in general. Good stuff.

Worst I've had was boulder station buffet. Once for dinner. I couldn't make the 10 minute drive home.

Once for breakfast because how bad can you screw up breakfast? The answer is, real bad.
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February 17th, 2017 at 11:28:08 PM permalink
Wildfire, someplace up north of downtown.
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February 18th, 2017 at 5:23:11 AM permalink
We have all had disappointing experiences but its always a balance between results and expectations. I knew Terribles was "lower tier" but I didn't know how bad until I stayed there one night and felt uncomfortable with the players as well as the dealers.

It never occured to me that the buffet could be as bad as it was. I mean Thursdays at a homeless shelter are always bad news but at least its edible or almost edible. Terribles was worse. I felt cheated and it was free.
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February 18th, 2017 at 8:14:09 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

That's easy for me to answer. The Guatamalan food joint by UNLV that nearly killed me with food poisoning. Read my blog entry JUST RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL for the whole story.



Maybe you should be more open minded, doesn't every restaurant deserve a second chance? j/k
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February 18th, 2017 at 8:22:44 AM permalink
I am a very simple eater and I can say that I have never had a buffet where I couldn't find at least one average item. I would put Westgate buffet on the lower end of my scale but at least they usually have turkey and ham at the carving station. For me that would be a meal. I don't require any side items.
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February 18th, 2017 at 8:29:33 AM permalink
The dinner buffet at Planet Hollywood - some of the meat was undercooked to the point of inedible.

A close second is Samba at Mirage; I felt sick after 15 minutes - I think it was something in the salad.
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February 18th, 2017 at 9:11:10 AM permalink
My worst buffet experience was at a Chinese buffet located on the second level in a building between PH and MGM; flavorless, totally uninspiring (no food poisoning, knock on wood).

The worst experience was at a Hash House a Go Go off strip.

I like corned beef hash, and had looked forward to trying their home made variety.

The amount served was copious, but the corned beef was not finely chopped, it was in long strands and quite stringy.

Tasted OK, but a chunk got lodged in my throat and I choked badly for at least five seconds.

My poor long-suffering wife was about to give me the Heimlich maneuver before the offending morsel leaped out of my mouth and onto the table.
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February 18th, 2017 at 9:51:55 AM permalink
Quote: Mission146

. I thought the buffet at Main Street Station was okay . . .

I second the motion. In our last trip Oct 2016, the main breakfast feature for us was to watch "Mainstreet Manny" (don't know if that's his moniker, but it's fitting) taking as many as 6 a la carte orders at the same time. This may be one of the few buffets in Las Vegas offering live entertainment - even a 15-min wait seems like 2 minutes, with Manny's entertaining non-stop bantering - he can talk to 6 different people and remember the ingredients for 6 different omelets!

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February 18th, 2017 at 10:23:01 AM permalink
Replenishing the Chinese buffet:

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February 18th, 2017 at 12:58:59 PM permalink
Quote: MaxPen

…All Stations buffet meat is subpar…


Note that Main Street Station is a Boyd property, and not part of the Stations family of casinos. Probably why it is good.

Many moons ago (Slots-a-Fun still had craps) I ate at tbe Circus Circus buffet, and they had this "meat" that I assume was supposed to be "beef", but it was a shade of grey, and tough as a 4-ply radial. How do you make meat grey?
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February 18th, 2017 at 1:15:40 PM permalink
Quote: LostWages

I second the motion. In our last trip Oct 2016, the main breakfast feature for us was to watch "Mainstreet Manny" (don't know if that's his moniker, but it's fitting) taking as many as 6 a la carte orders at the same time. This may be one of the few buffets in Las Vegas offering live entertainment - even a 15-min wait seems like 2 minutes, with Manny's entertaining non-stop bantering - he can talk to 6 different people and remember the ingredients for 6 different omelets!



In college, the pasta & omelette station had a guy like that. Pretty sure he was on meth most of the time.
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February 18th, 2017 at 1:27:14 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Many moons ago (Slots-a-Fun still had craps) I ate at tbe Circus Circus buffet, and they had this "meat" that I assume was supposed to be "beef", but it was a shade of grey, and tough as a 4-ply radial. How do you make meat grey?

Well, you mentioned Slots-a-Fun and then complained about the food at the associated property. It reminded me that when I posted my Slots-a-Fun chip in the Casino Chip of the Day thread, I got a reply post from DJTeddyBear that seems relevant to this thread. In describing his visit to Slots-a-Fun, he said:

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I also crossed something off my bucket list that day. I had a 99¢ foot-long hot dog. Word to the wise: It was overpriced.

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February 18th, 2017 at 4:18:16 PM permalink
When you are "on your uppers" you do that 99 cent hot dog with all the onions you can to kill the taste and it carries you the rest of the day until your ship comes in or you realize it ain't gonna come in and you hitch your way home.

That post must have been some time ago, though.
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February 18th, 2017 at 4:34:55 PM permalink
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That post must have been some time ago, though.


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February 18th, 2017 at 8:14:13 PM permalink
The worst buffet in Vegas is Arizona Charlie's (Decatur) and about that there can be no debate.
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February 18th, 2017 at 8:28:45 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

The worst buffet in Vegas is Arizona Charlie's (Decatur) and about that there can be no debate.

Is you comment based upon visits to that buffet that were PRIOR to the Dec 10, 2016 heavily touted complete overhaul??? If so, you might want to revisit and see if your opinion has changed. I do realize that physical remodeling and name changes do not necessarilly change the food quality but I also believe that new personnel and a new emphasis are also involved.

So I would suggest a few of our members who find themselves conveniently located to Arizona Charlies Decatur plan a visit and report back to us if the much touted changes are factual or imaginary.

On Edit: Er, uh... Dec 10, 2016 2015. (Never trust FleaStiff).
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February 18th, 2017 at 9:32:54 PM permalink
Worst buffet in LV IMO was the old IP buffet, and it was kinda expensive. Why would anyone pay for that when Harrahs is right next door for same price? The Palace buffet was bad, but it's cheap. It's not at all on the same level at Red Rock's or GVR.

To people bashing White Castle: it's an acquired taste apparently. Those burgers aren't supposed to be gourmet. If you like the WC from your grocer's freezer, the live version on the Strip is fantastic fresh WC burgers for a change. I love 'em! You can't compare them to steakhouse burgers, or even McDonalds. White Castle is it's own category, and there's a good reason they've been in business continuously since 1921, that's more than 30 years longer than McDonalds.
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February 19th, 2017 at 12:17:46 AM permalink
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Worst buffet in LV IMO was the old IP buffet, and it was kinda expensive. Why would anyone pay for that when Harrahs is right next door for same price? The Palace buffet was bad, but it's cheap. It's not at all on the same level at Red Rock's or GVR.

To people bashing White Castle: it's an acquired taste apparently. Those burgers aren't supposed to be gourmet. If you like the WC from your grocer's freezer, the live version on the Strip is fantastic fresh WC burgers for a change. I love 'em! You can't compare them to steakhouse burgers, or even McDonalds. White Castle is it's own category, and there's a good reason they've been in business continuously since 1921, that's more than 30 years longer than McDonalds.



The WC frozen burgers I infrequently purchase at 711 are edible.

The ones that are "fresh" at a brick & mortar WC are nasty.

Never had one at a WC.....never been to one (I might be 86'd, I'm not actually sure). Don't care if I'm ignorant or arrogant or whatever the word is. WC is bad news bears, and that's that!



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February 19th, 2017 at 3:22:23 AM permalink
I think the original White Castle burgers were steamed and the allure was the aroma particularly of onions and the salty taste of the burgers.
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February 19th, 2017 at 4:51:36 AM permalink
Quote: Rigondeaux

Plus one on binions chili and the snack bar in general. Good stuff.

Worst I've had was boulder station buffet. Once for dinner. I couldn't make the 10 minute drive home.

Once for breakfast because how bad can you screw up breakfast? The answer is, real bad.

Palace, and Boulder buffets suck and they always have.


The Broiler salad bar is great, especially the clam chowder.

Boulder & Sunset Station have a Viva Salsa Mexican stand, they have the best ground beef soft shell or corn tortilla tacos I have ever had. I get the same thing every time. A 3 taco combo with beans, rice extra cheese, side of sour cream and a drink is less than $10.
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February 19th, 2017 at 5:05:50 AM permalink
Quote: zippyboy

Worst buffet in LV IMO was the old IP buffet, and it was kinda expensive. .



+1

Had a friend staying there, and tried it a couple times over days because of that. My impression was, they had a buffet, because casinos are suppose to have a buffet. Because I couldn't think of another reason for it to exist.
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February 19th, 2017 at 6:03:14 AM permalink
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To people bashing White Castle: it's an acquired taste apparently. Those burgers aren't supposed to be gourmet. If you like the WC from your grocer's freezer, the live version on the Strip is fantastic fresh WC burgers for a change. I love 'em! You can't compare them to steakhouse burgers, or even McDonalds. White Castle is it's own category, and there's a good reason they've been in business continuously since 1921, that's more than 30 years longer than McDonalds.



The only worse thing than liking White Castle is admitting it. There is no valid reason or justification. I imagine the reason they've been open so long is at least 25% of Americans have always had awful judgment, and that is a bad reason not a good one.
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February 19th, 2017 at 7:19:51 AM permalink
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The ones that are "fresh" at a brick & mortar WC are nasty.

Never had one at a WC.....never been to one....



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February 19th, 2017 at 8:26:31 AM permalink
Worst food I've ever had was the foot-long hot dog from Slots-O-Fun. That doesn't quite classify as a dining experience, so I'll add:

1. Late night food courts - various properties. Once the lights start going out, it's a sign to move on. Sub-par quality has taken a turn, and it's not for the better...

2. 550 Pizza at Aria. I did not like their pizza, could have been the odd veggie combo that I had, but it just wasn't good, nor was the atmosphere anything I really cared for.

3. The walk from Vdara to The Cosmopolitan through Cosmo's garage. You pass right through the exhaust from the buffet. Smelling any buffet exhaust is second only to eating at a bad buffet.
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February 19th, 2017 at 1:55:48 PM permalink
Slots o fun foot long was good. I liked it the one time I had it. A couple trips to casino Royales foot long too. Not bad, got what I paid for. But I'll vote for Terribles buffet. The burgers were edible though.
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February 19th, 2017 at 3:42:12 PM permalink
Worst food I ever had in the Vegas area was the coffee shop at Railroad Pass about 12 years ago. Worst buffet was Arizona Charlie's (Decatur).
billryan
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February 19th, 2017 at 7:18:19 PM permalink
Quote: rxwine

+1

Had a friend staying there, and tried it a couple times over days because of that. My impression was, they had a buffet, because casinos are suppose to have a buffet. Because I couldn't think of another reason for it to exist.



Stayed there once and got free buffet passes. First day was horrid except for their self made tacos that actually was not bad. Returned the second day and the one item they had removed was the taco station and replaced it with a Macaroni dish they labeled baked lasagna but tasted like Mac and cheese, ketchup and roadkill.
Had salad and a bowl of ice cream.
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February 19th, 2017 at 7:45:08 PM permalink
Quote: FleaStiff

Is you comment based upon visits to that buffet that were PRIOR to the Dec 10, 2016 heavily touted complete overhaul??? .



Yes. Way before then. Okay, I promise to make a return visit before any further jabs.

BTW, Vegas comedians like to make fun of the Circus Circus buffet, but it isn't that bad. The Sahara and Riviera were both worst. However, since they no longer exist, I suppose the Circus Circus is my new second to the bottom.

Have a nice day.
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February 19th, 2017 at 11:32:52 PM permalink
there was a mexican fast food joint in the food court at excalibur....I'm sure they used glue instead of cheese.
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