Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Unacceptable Condiment

Yes its been some time since I have updated this blog,the only reason could be laziness just to add a touch of sophistication I use the word “acedia”,just another twisted form of the clichéd excuse.Well nothing that inspiring or unpredicatable has happened all these days and I was feeling guilty so I thought of writing about something many of us have experienced.

Eating/hogging happens to be a passion of people of all ages though there are exceptions to those who are concerned about various issues like figure,health etc..This one somewhat circles around my disappointment to attain satisfaction in this domain of expertise.

Ok here it starts,I make it a point to visit the mess 3 times a day irrespective of the fact that I eat there or not .Like many hostelites I just search for reasons to eat junk food available on the streets to fastfood centres like McDonalds and Subway,and why “search for reasons” u might ask well its because of constraining factors like money in wallet and guilt of paying four digit figures to the mess workers and many other reasons.Let me start from the beginning of the expedition it starts with a stomach growling followed by a discussion with 3 or more people the most probable dishes then the discussions of the previous weeks timestable…the conclusion is never reached.Now comes the walk to the mess at this point of time we analyze the “aromas”which our olfactory system encounters.Yes then we reach and stare at the people who are already eating,first analyzing from their expression how good it tastes and also analyzing the ingredients.

It so happened that this afternoon we were blessed with cabbage,the usual groans and curses and also evryones discussion of how cabbage is prepared at their homes.There is always a unanimous decision the food is gonna be horrible and we get prepared 4 it.So I arm myself with the required weapons a spoon and obviously the plate.

Now we settle down at the table and start “devouring” the food.We usually comes across many different additives and I always wonder why they add leaves and sticks and though I know the reason ie; they add flavor.frankly I don’t get any added flavor from it.Also the sticks and leaves I refer to as correceted by my friends are called “dal cheenie “ ,”cloves” etc.

All these spices are acceptable all the sticks the leaves the cloves the whatever but what isn’t acceptable is THE HAIR.It so happened that this fine day I was “blessed” to get a long black hair covered with oil and hiding amidst the cabbage leaves ,planning secretly to enter my foodpipe and strangulate me at some point of time maybe !!!!ok enough over reacting but the presence of that one strand of hair is enough to make me throw all the contents on my plate ,irrespective of the fact that the other contents were spared from presence of the evil ,black ,slimy strand of hair…So there goes all the contents into red wide mouthed baskets, the dustbins which definitely have more food than all our ever-growling stomachs.

Whats worse my evil mind gets to work the very fact that I couldnt satiate my hunger (not that its actually possible in our mess) and also to force those of my friends who claim that its “ just a hair”, I get into the task of forcing those who sit along with me to commit the sin of wasting food,though some of them act deaf I strive relentlessly explaining how the hair must have entered my food and how the food is mixed also explaining that the hair must have come from the head which is a host to a huge force of predators who feast on the human blood some more elaborations suggesting the bathing routine of the unknown person and am successful in stopping a majority of the people from filling their stomachs .


And yes the times ripe to strike the vada pav stall or the pani puri stall…come to think of it what would people like me do if we find hair in any of the items over here,stop going to the place?Its going to pain me a lot if am forced to stop going to my favorite pani puri stall,Strange that I prefer junk food in any form but not mess food!!

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