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Fast Food - Fast World

Posted on Dec 27th, 2006 by Sharma : Namaste Sharma
[Originally Written by me on Wednesday 18 October 2006]
 
Home cooked food is best for health.  Thousands of column centimeters are written every year telling us the perils of fast food. In India we have a tradition of home foods, eating out only sometimes. Eating out may be considered unhealthy but it is delicious & appetizing. How hygienically cooked food can be unhealthy, I could never understand it. Last evening I was in the market for some shopping. As it was still a couple of hours to dinner and I was already feeling hungry, munching on a burger was a good option. Food carts are a specialty of India, especially food carts in our city offer the taste which is unparallel in adjoining 50 kilometer area. Burgers cost between Rupees 3 to 12 in the city and no doubt Rupees 12 burger available on food cart is better in taste and content than the burger starting from Rupees 30 available at McDonald food point situated some 35 kilometer away. What's in a burger - potato, tomato, onion, cauliflower, sauce, salt and spices put into two round pieces of bread, heated on a hot iron plate in little cooking oil, that's all. There's a variety of food available on carts. Tikki, dahi-bhale, samose, pakode, golgape, noodles, manchurian, spring rolls, idli, dosa, pau-bhaji, fried foods and so on.

I stopped on a cart and ordered a burger and wow! The guy was already out of stock. A moderate guess tells me he sells 500+ burgers on his little cart daily. I don't know how many a vendor in New York sells. Surely it's a good business and I am not going to do it. Not even planning to start a franchisee of food carts. Tiny businesses add variety to life and good for developing entrepreneurial skills. I'd better grace my office chair and try to sell my stuff to people all over the world.


There's marvelous progress in every sphere of life. Big shopping malls are coming up and the owners of neighborhood grocery and daily needs stores have good option to close down their shutters and join honorable jobs in these malls. There's a big jump in retail sector, it is being organized. After a few years I will start buying my match sticks from billion dollar companies. Businesses are being talked in millions and billions; common man manages to get his salary. I read business newspapers because they give me news of deals ranging from a few hundred million to a few billion!! I may not be a party to those deals but the talks of them is there on my table J and it gives me a fellow feeling. I am trying to think which is not good for me. I'd better lay back and silently munch on another burger, the world has its own ways and I should not bother anyone by trying to think too much.

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Nivrutti said

I don't know about the burgers but the other stuff sounds awesome.  I'm the type of guy who lives to eat instead of eats to live.  I tried some fast food, I think it was some sort of pakoras or something we ate at a truck stop and promptly got stuck with disentery.  We were travelling around Rajesthan with Gurunath and were on a lake in a motor boat.  We ran out of petrol and G. told me to power the boat with my own gas.  Aie, (GuruMataji) started laughing out loud and the boat suddenly sprung a leak right between my legs.  As Aie can't swim at all she start yelling ” It's my seven year of Saturn!! Hurry someone get help!!!”   We all bursted out laughing. G. says,”If the boat sinks, we won't be able to find you in you're green sari! (the lake was green)  After a while a guy in a huge swan shaped peddle boat came to the rescue.

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