A Special Christmas Greetings Card

the link International December 1997One of the delights of Indianmenus is the amazing Englishnames you see! You can start offyour morning with a bowl ofCorn Flaks (useful if you’regoing to shoot down planes). Orperhaps you’re an electrician andwould like some Corn Flex!Even before your Corn-whatever,you should take some tea. NowIndia has a large variety of typesof teas to offer. You can try bedtea, milk tea, light tea, readytea, mixed tea, tray tea, plaintea, cutting tea, half set teaand even (of course) full settea.Eggs offer other possibilities:half fried eggs, pouch eggs, (oreggs poach), bolid eggs, scrimbledeggs, skamai eggs and eggtost, sliced omelette, skeremboil eggs, bread omelt or simplyeggs.Finally you could finish off withthat popular Scottish dish, pordge,or maybe you would likeporch with hunney.Soup before a meal? How aboutFrench onion soap or that oldfavourite - crap soup?Or Scotch brath, and maybe somemuhhutoni, or perhaps start witha parn cocktail?Follow that up with some amazinginterpretations of Western disheslike the restaurant that not onlyhad Naèpoleon sapaghetti butalso some Stalin spaghetti. Perhapsa seezling plator or vegetableaugrotten sounds more likeit? Or simply a light meal ? Well,why not have a sandwich or avegetable pup? Feeling strong?Then you want a carate salad or avegetabl cutlass.If you want a drink then howIndian Menuesabout orange quish or that popularIndian drink Thumps Up?Chinese dishes offer a whole newrange of possibilities, includingmashroms and bambu sooghts,spring rolos, American chopsy,vege chapsey, Chines snakesvegetable chop off, vigitiablenuddles, plane park fried rice.Finally for dessert, you could tryapple pai, apple filter, sweetpannking with hanni or bananpanecake, or treat yourself toleeches and cream, or even semenolinapudding!Travellers have sent in lots moremenu suggestions like tired fruitjuice (tinned you know!) planetost (the stuff they serve on IndianAirlines), omelet and gegan, twoeggs any shape, loose curds,curds bath, tomatoe stuff,scrambled eggs, chicken poodlesoup, screambled eggs, painapplecream and chocolat padding.The real treat would be to trysomething Colonel Saundershasn’t even thought about yet -fried children!!Ed. Thanks for this humorouscontribution. Perhaps you’ve seensome bad spealing missteaks too.You can scent them to us!The 3 R’sRajinder, Rakesh & RaviBrazilRajinder and Mr. SherryRespected Sir,It was indeed a great pleasure tomeet you again in Bluche after aninterval of four years.I was too busy after my sojourn inBluche to write before now. Businesscommitments took me to Switzerland,Germany, then on to the States(New Jersey - Seattle - Las Vegas -New York) - and back to Zurich!I hope the Indian students arekeeping up our name and excellingin whatever they do in school.News about the 3R’s.... Well asyou can see my business affairskeep me on the go world wide.Rakeesh is married. He and hiswife Meena have a little daughter- Preesha. Rakeesh has taken overthe franchise for Ranch 1 (FastRakesh, Rajinder, and RaviFood Chicken Chain based inN.Y. and opened recently in Manhatten.)He has another one in oneof the busier and fancier malls,“Galleria”, in NY. Ravi is alsomarried and works with Rakeeshas the Operations Manager.Best regards to you and all formerclassmates of the 3 R’s. RajinderSaigal (Sum ’83).Marcelo Politti has every reasonto be showing how happyhe is. He recently published atwo-page article on the secretsof successful restaurant managementin the well-known Brazilian“Revista dos Bares &Restaurantes”.He is seen here celebrating hisnew position as General Managerof Playcenter, Sao Paulo.7