Age 5--An apple, a sandesh and a boiled egg on weekdays. Normal rice and associated Bengali delicacies on weekends and holidays.
Age 10--Varied homemade non-conventional lunches consumed as lunch on weekdays: such as upma, chire'r polao, luchi-tarkari, Maggi or Licia noodles, Farinni Cake, french toast, et al. Normal rice and associated Bengali delicacies on weekends and holidays.
Age 15--Fuchka, and alukabli on weekdays. Homemade lunch were given away regularly to enthusiastic friendly patrons. Normal rice and associated Bengali delicacies on weekends and holidays.
Age 20--Wide-ranging options on weekdays: Varied homemade lunches sometimes, half-plate chicken fried rice from 'Tasty', 'Gunjan', 'Rinky', (all in College Street), Pan fried Momo-s from Momo plaza et al (Esplanade) or in 'Food Station' (in College Street too), Singara and Mishti doi from 'Pnutiram', Jhalmuri and Fuchka and Alukabli wherever available....and many other sensational options.
Anger and Normal rice and associated Bengali delicacies on weekends and holidays.
Age 25--Whatever's available in Grad House: absolute boring and cheesy (in a literal sense) soups, Sub-s, and sometimes Vietnamese food on weekdays.
Nothing on weekends. Nothing consumed. Nothing consumed as lunch. Nothing consumed in lunchtime.
Age 28 (now)--Salad with Greek and Italian Dressing, yogurt and some "garden fresh" soup, normally on weekdays.
Rich, Dark, French Roasted Coffee on Weekends.
Looks like....by 30...I had it all without any chance of having them all yet again.
Could the sign of degeneration be any more explicit?
And what's the reason to live???????
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4 comments:
he..he..he...why do you call it degeneration?...very nice...i like the transition, i like the topic...'lunch through life'...'the lost lives of our lived lunches'.....very nice...right now i've just come back from lunch/dinner/bunner/dinch???...the eve meal - too late for lunch too early for dinner...but i've become a complete foodie in the last 2 years...all the things that i never would dream of eating - lots of dal, lots of tarka, lots of vegetables, large quantities of yoghurt...rice and rooti...and it feels good...every now and then i'll have four gigantic shingaras for dinner and suffer badly and gladly...who knows what that meal is...i have not the faintest idea...meals get scrunched up....sometimes breakfast is an elaborate affair....extending into an 'exotic' brunch....and some other days we'll eat one hearty meal - the linner/the lunner/the dunch....hmm....what i wanted to say was - lovely entry - brings back memories...'anger and normal rice'...heheheheh....funny, funny - i'll be calling you today post 9. adda mara jaabe...take care.
but - the main question - why the pessimism....i know, i know....but no...no pessimism allowed...none...why live? to eat dinches of course!
Ok...no pessimism, IF you cook or arrange to feed me those appetizing dinches as you mentioned!
Would you?
aaj aar adda maara gelo na. toke mail korao gelo na...tore phone message-ta shunechhi - ekhane oboshyo baaje bokaar kono karon nei - kintu bishaal henshechhilum tore message shune 'ghabre jeona'...
majhe modhye upma khaoa hoy brunch-e (eta oboshyo maar dept noy) ...majhe modhe elaborate omlette - spinach, spanish, ba eispecial (eta majhe modhye amar dept), ba fritata...ekhon gormoe aar deem khaoa hochhe na...paneer-ta mondo korina - kintu boroi daam...ekta phulkopi baaniye chhilaam besh kichudin age sheta khub interesting hoyechhilo...aar sambaar khaoa hoy, korma, tarka, daal (amar dept noy)...tobe shob khhai...bhindi-o khhai idaning...bhaba jaay?...tobe hyahn - salad khaoa thik poshaay na- kichudin khub salad bananor hujog uthlo - kintu aar hochhe na...arekta heavy jinish holo asparagus...khub-i interesting vegetable eta....rebecca ekdin brunch-e baaniye chhilo...darun - ektu olive oil-e lightly satueed (taar age ek chamoch jole microwave slightly steamed) with lemon juice, garlic, mint leaves...aar kichhu green, red, yellow peppers...khub-i bhalo...
ta khaobokhon...shei 2004-e amar canada ghure ashar uchit chilo....tobe tokhon gele toke ranna korte hoto - ami onek onek deem banate partum tokhon...aar ek dekchi pasta....
...heavy laglo post-ta - abaar porlum...ami school-e ekbaar dahi vada niye giyechhilum (ma heavy banae eta) - ta tiffin box khule duto jinish meshaanor age baksho khali hoye giyechhilo...baba banato cake aar rossogolla aar pantua....prochur experiment hoyechhilo ei niye...choli ekhon boss. ooops - I didn't realise that i was talking in banlish...sorry, sorry - I've spoilt the post with my banlish...ekhuni ekta mint chocolate cookie khelum...
kichudin dhore heavy theke extra-heavy khaoaar khachhi...aha...aachha, aachha aar bolbo na...bhalo thakish - pore golpo hobe...tata
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