Monday, December 03, 2007

Watch out what’s on your Greasy Spoon…

…a reality check on Delhi’s Out(Eat)aries

The pictures which are used in this ‘eye-opener’ belongs to a road side eatery namely ‘Sindhi Dhaba’, located outside a south Delhi cineplex - Sangam (the one near DPS RK Puram). It is NO hot place to eat (and neither meant to be), but for some it may act as a stopover eatery.
I went for a movie few days back and while waiting for the tickets, snapped some pictures which were….hmmm!! dunno how to describe them but all I can say is that they weren’t hygienic…

Take 1:
An innocent worker following one of the very old ‘foxing’ marketing methods i.e. “old shirt in a new packet”. Imagine sweetened royal ‘asian-paint’ inside that kerosene container served in the name tomato ketchup...yaik, vaqq thu…can’t even think of the taste!!


Take 2:
Just try to read the dejected waiter’s expressions. He looks towards the chiefs with a body language symbolizing a complain, saying – “Its all MCD’s (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) fault. They should have provided us with clean drinking water. Why should I purify it?”



Take 3:
(Disclaimer to all esp. animal rights fighters: the animal wasn’t forced for this pose, some things just come so naturally).


Hope you all got the idea of hygiene conditions of our road-side stalls/vendors/etc :P But then, our bodies are so immune now, that we can take anything…
McD, CCD, Barista and all other dhabas of foreign origin are heaven in comparison to these. And, haan hostel mess and college canteens too :)

4 comments:

Suneetinder Singh Walia said...

haha. . good funny pictures.

pasha said...

This is India dude,Its supposed to be a dirty place, simply because noboday cares!
The cow's milk in India contains PUS! yes "PUS" and in europe it is not consumed if the level of pus is high, where as in India the yellower the cow's milk the better it is !
Now consider this: Milk in India contains more pesticide than what is normally considerd "SAFE". In fact lot of hue and cry was raised about pesticide in coke and pepsi, but milk contains same if not more of pesticide!
It is these pesticides that take care of the "GREASY SPOON", the pesticides kill all the bacteria

AG said...

@ ssw
thanks for stopping by :)

@ pasha
what u say is correct but i think u r too pessimistic in ur first line
INDIA IS NOT SUPPOSE 2 B A DIRTY PLACE, unless u make it!!
and regarding the adulteration in foodstuffs is considered, its unfortunate but then its all in accordance with our immunity, explore on the topic 'the adaption to a particular habitat'!!
anyways the last line of ur reply was really cool ;)

nadeem said...

good work done buddy..