The conversation in a canteen of a 10 billion dollar IT
company during lunch time between two fat women goes on like this:
1st fat women: (Seeing the ultra-thin tiffin box
of the other woman) Are you on diet?
2nd fat woman: No. Are you on fast?
1st fat woman: No.
A tasteless lunch to the tongue complemented by sarcastic words
heard to the ear.
South India:
A place where people eat rice with their hands.
But in a 10 billion dollar IT Company, where mannerism
creeps in, two hands are substituted with two spoons. In spite of being written
in the hall that please take one spoon, South Indians take two spoons to eat
rice. After being constantly mocked for their eating habits, they have progressed
a bit further to eating rice with two spoons. What has this caused in our
canteen?
Shortage of spoons in lunch hour. People don’t even let the
spoons reach the serving table. Spoons have now become a priced commodity.
The office canteen is a place where people went out their
anger among their friends which they can’t do it in office cubicle. Back
bitching is so common that one person does all the back bitching among the
group while the other people listen to that person as if he is giving them
enlightenment in life.
The less said about rotis, the more it is better. The extent
to which you get rotis made one random guy comment that at least prisoners in
jail might be getting a good deal.
One fine day, an employee discovers a hair in the dal. He
shouts at the top of voice and the whole canteen stops eating. The catering
head guy tries to apologize and tries to make a modest face in front of
employee. The same employee had got screwed by a client last night and now the
roles have only got reversed.
The big advantage that a catering staff have with them while
preparing food for some 10000 odd people is that you don’t require efforts even
to chop vegetables like onion and tomatoes. The small tomatoes are just put in
the curry water. What if the small tomato has a worm? Wouldn’t it give a
distinctive taste to our tongue?
Biryani festivals in the office canteen cause a mad scramble
at the serving table. Everyone tries to go early resulting in long line that
stretches the whole hall. Friday is the day when everyone tries to imbibe
everything is good feeling by eating chicken biryani resulting again in longer
queues compared to all other four days.
When you see an empty place in the crowded office canteen
hall, it means that is directly below the AC vents. Who wants to eat food stone
cold!
The story ends with a sweet. A high calorie sweet satisfies
your tongue at the end of a tasteless lunch.
