Watch what you eat
Other day we were in a very expensive restaurant for dinner. I just
ate a piece of mutton chops, and when I just bit in to it I felt I am eating
chicken. And I immediately told my colleague sitting next to me that it was not
mutton and tasted like chicken. Then I continued for some time and realized it
was not mutton. Both of us tried to investigate, looked at the meat by itself
which was not typical of red meat. It was white meat and it was not chicken.
Spine was distinctive, easily breakable
with soft cartilage. This made us stop eating and since then I stopped eating mutton
in restaurants.
What can possibly be that meat on that day? I will present my
speculation and what happens in the meat market and the restaurants.
Meat is sold in different ways. Most of us are used to buy meat in
the nearby shops where meat is chopped in front of our eyes. There are markets
within the deeper pockets of a city which is not accessible by many. Basically
let’s assume them as difficult terrain. Meat is sold in bulk. And there are many
who genuinely sell the meat in bulk. Of course there are bad elements who do
not sell meat in genuine way. There is some amount of mixing of meat with
animals of not your choice. If a KG of mutton costs around Rs 700 and in bulk
of 30 to 50 kg, if you can mix meat of other animals to at least up to 10 kgs
and you will not notice the mix. You can make a big profit out of this. Mutton
can be mixed with dog, monkey, donkey and cat.
When the supplier has adulterated with these and has supplied to a
restaurant. There may be many who will be obliging for a small commission from
the particular supplier. When these meats are served in a restaurant, none will
be able to differentiate the meat. So choosing your meat in a restaurant is
still your luck.
What about the road side eateries that sell biriyanis for Rs 40 and
push carts who sell kebabs for such small price, how do they make their big profit?
If you have to use oil, the options are you buy company ones, loose
in the shops or buy from wholesalers. There is always someone who is selling at
a very cheap price which attracts these roadside vendors to buy. What oil are
they supplying to these vendors? Most of the cheap oil sold in these markets in
bulk or loose are the ones, which are recycled and refined oils. There is
evidence that motor oil is refined and sold.
Anything you eat these days is planned for your satisfaction with
artificial flavors, excessive oil, ghee or cheese. And they can dump so much,
because they can afford it and you know where they would be getting those from.
We are getting corporatized in our food habits. Indians have a varied
taste and is different even for fifty to hundred kilometers. Western food is uniform
across and will find the same taste in any corner of those countries. Breakfast
to lunch we cook literally from the scratch. We are losing our taste following
the west.
Now if your kids are used to fast food and lose the habit of liking
Indian food, chances are that they will be cooking less in future when they are
adults. All they need is processed foods and bread. It’s easy to take two
slices of bread and spread jam and cheese. You are done. That is what they are
going to give their kids when they have kids. When you lose touch of your taste
and depend on restaurants and fast food which are addictive, you lose one families
taste.
And every family has a unique taste. Mostly the taste of a family is
mixture of both parents and wife’s side if nuclear family and husbands side if
joint family. Now all these are lost because slowly we are turning in to
western way of living which is typical robotic corporatized human lives. And
they are being dictated by the market and the corporations.
This is the toilet tissue moment of the world. If you can see that
people go on riots in the western world for toilet tissues. Don’t you find this
really odd and silly? This is what a robotic corporatized human will be like.
Excretion is natural process which has happened across the world from the time
humans are in existence and nobody had control over that. But now the western
world is held by the toilet tissue companies by a sword. It’s like that
challenge of all the body organs claiming who is the greatest in the body and
you know who the last one to say was.
Like normal labor (Child birth) has disappeared and has become a tik
tok delivery. What could have happened with few thousands rupees now many are
spending on lavish suites worth lakhs, and that used to happen as a normal process
all these millennia.
Indians can cook a meal anywhere with simple ingredients. While same cannot be done by westerners. They are dependent on company made food and they are the slaves of the corporate indirectly.
If you lose touch with your way of food and de
pend on restaurants and
fast food. Over time you and your kids lose touch with family taste and try to
imitate the same at home. Like cooking fast foods at home and using too much
processed foods and ready mix. Family taste is lost and art of cooking will be
lost. And you will depend on processed foods and fast foods
So at the end of the day if we don’t appreciate the way of living
what India has we will end of like processed humans with degenerate values, and dependent on corporate and their prices.