A grand “Sadhya“, golden brown roasted “chapathis“, saravana bhavan dosa and fresh cut salads. These are now regular scenes in my dream. In fact eating tasty food has moved up from my to-do list to life-time ambition list. The reason – Our college canteen.

Still clueless ?? Ok, Imagine a big steel plate (which may or may not be clean). Now imagine half baked chapatis, 3 varieties of dal (which all taste the same), and a liquid which is “christened” as rasam. This has been my staple diet for about 2 weeks and everything else palatable comes with an extra cost. I already feel I have not eaten good food for centuries.

So now the big question ? Even though there are numerous case studies on bad food in airline industry, why is there not even a single case study on bad food in college and school canteen ? So does this mean that these two cases have no relation at all. I feel otherwise. In fact I think all the airline CEOs were psychologically affected by bad food in their college canteen and now they are taking revenge on the public. And the gullible economists , without knowing the actual reason are trying hard to relate microeconomics and monopolization with bad food in airline industry. 

So who is finally benefiting from all these ?

After much analysis (mentally – with no data whatsoever) , I think I have found the answer. Its none other than “Maggi“.  Otherwise , what else can possibly explain the ever increasing sale of maggi noodles, even though they have been cheating us for ages and everybody knows that its not practically possible to make maggi in 2 minutes flat. Still forgiving the “time factor” right now maggi is my saviour. The guardian angel of all student souls in manipal.

So as I contemplate the factors affecting maggi sales in manipal and airline food industry, I finally realised that its 5:00 PM , ie tea time – canteen time.