Today the first meal of day for me was a bowl, full of various fruits; banana, apple, grapes, pineapple, papaya, muskmelon, watermelon and sapota. It was not only tasty but also rich in nutrition.
By the time I started working on the assigned task it was lunch time.
I left for lunch with my colleagues. I filled my plate with chapatti, fried potato, some curry (I still don’t know the name of that curry! 
Ah! Now the time to taste it, First I tried my taste buds on fried potato and chapatti. (Please allow me to go into the details of the so called ‘Tasty food’) Chapatti was half-baked and the fry was half cooked. Curry as I have already mentioned was giving me that ‘Hide and seek’ look. What is left? Yeah! Curd!! It was sour and stale in taste.
My brain started looking for reasons of food being so ‘delicious’. There are a few I could think of:
1. Our employer does not want us to sleep in the noon. Even though, he is very much aware of the power of noon nap. Siesta is something which does not exist in his dictionary. Oh! Very clever he is! You see.
2. ‘The healthier the diet, the worse it would taste’. It sounds like a new mantra of health conscious corporate world. The only point to note down here is that only employers believe in this. Any employee?
3. If in case the office food is sumptuous and tasty (It can never happen! Let us just assume!), employees will focus more on food and less on work. It sounds preachy….uhhh!
4. Employees crave for ‘Good’ food. But employers are very well familiar with the old adage that says that ‘Good is the biggest enemy of the best’. Wait! I don’t want the ‘best’, I would happily settle down with ‘Good’.
Apart from the above raisons d’être, I can not think of more. Though the future of my office cafeteria looks bleak, I still hope for the best.
Amen!!
P.S.: If you come across any such motive of employers, please do share it with me. I will include that also in the above list.
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