A typical day's Hostel Mess Menu:
- Sambar that tastes like water
- Rice that's as dry as uncooked White Oats
- A Vegetable turned into an incomprehensible blob of green/ red/ yellow
- a dead Spider or two
The hostel kitchen defied every rule of a Health Inspector. My hostel kicked it up a notch by hanging a sign that read "Things That Taste Bad Are Good For Health." Everyone dreaded the Mess food. Within a month of joining college we all found solace in the private run mess outside the campus. On days where the hostel served nothing but rice and cabbage, business thrived in "Andhra Mess" and "Suguna Mess".
We later started to break rules. We bought small Induction Stoves and began experimenting with our Cooking skills! I learnt to prepare a perfect Cup-O-Noodles! For lack of anything to eat it with, Puttu (a Keralite dish) was prepared and eaten with mutton pickle, Cornflakes with Maggie taste-makers and mutton pickle. Chappatis with mutton pickle, "Instant Ghee Rice" with mutton pickle and Sandwich spreads consisted of well, more mutton pickle. This trend continued...till the day one of our friends brought Fish pickle and another cycle ensued!
I heard that the girls who never left the hostel have now bettered their culinary skills. As for me and cooking, I'm still the Cup-O-Noodle connoisseur!
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