Whats for lunch?

'So how did it go?' I asked a A friend of mine who had just got back from an interview. 'Aaah pretty OK, lets see, I am not too excited' he replied nonchalantly. 'But isn't it your target company and best fit job?' I asked. 'Yeah well it was until this afternoon'. 'So what changed?' I asked again now irritating this guy who was focusing on his Chhole Samosa. 'Arre yaar, unka cafeteria main khaana achha nahi thha, thhoda enthu kam ho gaya' (The food wasn't good in their cafeteria, I lost some enthusiasm for it ) he replied between breaths.

So after a few more minutes of pointless banter over jobs and the relation of food with it, we decided we should send a mail to career services to include the cafeteria menu of the recruiting company along with the job description. Though at the serious thought of pissing off the career services, I chickened out.

But food in a company or organization does come up in conversations. Company feedback from seniors end conversations with 'things are good...but the food sucks'. Hey but, I am going to work there and build a career, not check into a restaurant and comment on their idly vada sambar.

An army marches on its bulging stomach. Food comes as a break from stress and rigour. Taste is one of the senses which we can pamper and something which we can control and affect. and it needs to be pampered. Health of course is of course a big outcome of what we eat, and if we don't have healthy tasty choice, we are in a soup quite literally.

And blessed are the ones who get a delicious dabba (lunch box), once in a while. Prepared by a spouse who is in the exact stage of lateness to office or a dabba delivery service which drowns their veggies in copious unrefined oil.

Beggers cant be choosers most of the times, but when the opportune moment comes and I get asked 'so do you have any questions for us?' I shall probably reply 'khaan main kya hai?' (whats for lunch?)