The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet

This one started with my thinking of all the saying in English that have to do with eating.  Then I began to imagine where and how people might have to literally eat these things.

                                                    The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
                                                     or Dining in Dante’s Inferno

                                              First of all, you must swallow your pride;
                                              this is not a gourmet experience.
                                              All our dishes are mass produced for
                                              gluttons like you. For appetizers, you
                                              will find a taste of your own medicine
                                              or some thin slices of your own cooked goose.
                                              Our soup du jour is a stew of your own juices.
                                              And for the main course, you may choose to eat
                                              crow, your hat, your words, or that horse you said
                                              you were so hungry you could consume.
                                              Be careful not to spill the milk, but if you do,
                                              no crying is allowed. Then the piece de
                                              resistance: you can savor some homemade
                                              humble pie or see if the proof is in
                                              the pudding. If you are patient enough
                                              to wait for the vengeance pot to cool,
                                              you may serve some to those who follow you.
                                              It is best served cold, for then it really hurts.
                                              Here we offer only truly just desserts.

Notes to foreign readers:  This poem is stuffed with proverbial sayings in English.  I'm sure I'll miss some, but here are a few.
  A taste of  your own medicine means to be subjected to the sort of treatment you handed out to others.
 When your goose is cooked, it means you've been defeated or discredited.
 To stew in your own  juices is to be left to consider a predicament you're in.
 To eat crow is to admit defeat and/or admit you were wrong about something.
  To eat you own words is very similar.
  When someone is confident about something happening, they may say I'll eat my hat  if that event doesn't occur (or if some improbable event occuss that they laughed at as impossible.)
 When someone is really starving, they often say they are hungry enough to eat a horse.
Eating humble pie is a lot like eating crow.
The proof is in the pudding means that theoretical ideas aren't proven until they are tried out in the real world.
Shakespeare said that vengeance is a dish best served cold  (later, when people aren't expecting it and the avenger is more likely to get away with it).
Just desserts means deserved reward or punishment, but a dessert is also the final sweet dish in a meal.