Wednesday, February 23, 2005

A Good afternoon lunch

This is what everyone in Software industry yearns for but rarely gets. The usual office menu looks something like:

0) Yesterdays Chapathis or day before yesterdays pooris, or Parathas from 1876 AD
1) A special rice - Either some lukewarm basmati rice,pulav, or some puliyodharai rice, or some coloured rice which God knows what it is
2) Some papads/vadams which are either over burnt or under cooked
3) 2 Dry curries and 2 Wet curries (that is what they call them)
4) Sambhar cum rasam - This is the latest invention , wherein if u dont dip ur tablespoon too deep then u get rasam, and if u mix well it becomes sambhar
5) Yesterdays curd
6) The one thing that cannot go wrong - Salad
7) Some sugar (??? why do they keep this)
8) Pickle
9) A sweet - which tastes sweet (nothing more to add here)
10) Friday special - Vanilla Ice cream (since they give ice cream, they cancel item number 9)

And for offering this kinda crap they charge anywhere between 20-40 rupees depending upon different companies.

How I wish I make these people eat their own shit that they make for us :(.

Anyways, why I wanted to write this was today was different. Got a chance to have a great lunch in one of my friends house. His mom had come from Trichy. Had bangalore kathrikai koottu, paruppu usli, arachu utta sambhar, proper appalam, gumm rasam and curd rice and to top it all Gulab Jamuns in the end. Phew!!!

Guess what happens when u get such a good lunch after eating those dried up chappathis for a few weeks? You become sleepy :(

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