If you ask today’s young generation what food they take most of the time, the maximum answers are likely to be 'Maggie'. Yes that very two minute noodle! Kids love it. Bachelors swear by it. Seniors admire it. We all love it. I have virtually grownup eating that. Different types of prepared Maggie – the essence remained the same. In the eighties it was Parle G. And in the nineties it was Maggie. In today’s highly competitive ready to cook market, Maggie still holds it position. Long live the Maggie!I have a friend who says that Maggie is American shit. Shit? Yes, the advertising that happens is extremely persuasive. But shit?? No I disagree. He compares Maggie to cornflakes. In America loads of corn is grown and somebody has to eat it. So they have made something called cornflakes and have made so much advertising, which is backed by this and that nutritional data that corn is now a regular breakfast in the entire US and even parts of UK. I have also heard lot of people say that having too much Maggie is bad…its made of maida, has artificial flavours this and that. Boss few weeks back a reputed TV channel was showing how our Indian farmers use chemicals in vegetables. One guy was injecting some chemical inside the brinjal…and in minutes the brinjal turned deep purple!! What kind of Houdini act that was? The PC Sarkar farmers are too busy raking in profits and are least concerned about our health. And we have no FDA in india! At least Maggie do not have such harmful chemicals. And anyway our entire Indian life is a complete screwed up thing. The more you think on these stupid things the more closer you go to utter madness. So let’s not blame Maggie. For those who complain that Maggie cannot be eaten twice….well you got to improvise, invent, innovate. Fry some onions, tomatoes, capsicum, chilies and carrots. Put those into your Maggie…you have a delicious dish ready. You can experiment with eggs and chicken also.
And if you are fed up with Maggie you can try the ready to cook pasta. And if you are more adventurous you can cook pasta fresh. Hundreds of recipes are available online…just search a bit in google “pasta recipe”. My favorite is fry onions, capsicums, tomato and put boiled pasta in it. Stir is for few minutes and the put tomato sauce and Pasta sauce (I use the mushroom flavor). Add little water and dhaniya…and in few minutes you have pasta ready. Try this. But honestly it’s complicated. Better add some vegetables in Maggie and enjoy it. And do not worry about health. Health is not wealth but wealth is health. I mean if you donot have food to eat how can you be rich?
Please excuse me for this mumbo jumbo…actually I needed to write something because my head was well…it was itching inside. Now it’s gone. And you cannot expect anything better from me..I have gone back in the 90s…I was litening to the song “Gutur Gutur…Char gaya upar re” from Dalal before writing this. So totally in a kabutar mood! But now I am feeling good. And all the credit goes to you for your patience in reading this Gutur Gutur stuff. God bless you.
