Are we in our own canteen ?

Probably the first time in our company canteen. The long lines outside it were testimony to this fact.

What I'm talking about is the menu for lunch. A chinese spread consisting of fried-rice, corn soup, chicken munchurion and bread. Never before. We have been forever used to the staple recycled hash of vegetables and broth and mashed-rice which passes of as lunch. But this was something that I hadn't expected.

But once you get over this bolt and slowly desecnd back to earth - you will realise - When you eat this kind of stuff - you are not going to be in the "fill it up" mode - I mean you wont stack up 10 slices of bread on your plate, the way you do with the pooris and rotis. You also wont make a small model of the Sahyadris (with the rice) on your plate. People are going to consume less. This works to around the same as far as the company is concerned. (But,at least the menu got changed for a change).

Infact this has been a week of surprises at the canteen. Yesterday we had chole-bature and tomato-rice. Another of the firsts in the history of our canteen. There was a notice saying that one should take only 02 batures. (In any case more than 2 would anyway keep you busy at the toilets for the rest of the day).

A strange notice also was seen today - Either take Veg. or Non Veg. Not Both. Looks like some of our newly recruited IIMA types are going overboard lately.