no meat feat
To the outsider who hasn’t bothered to find out anything about the country, it seems that India is this scary place which only eats rabbit food. To some extent, this is true. There are lots of vegetarian restaurants. In fact, in the unlikely event that I wanted to become a rabbit food eater myself; there probably isn’t a better country to live in.
But the problem is, I’m anything but a vegetarian.
The first hotel we stayed in for the night featured (as most hotels do) a comp breakfast. On heading downstairs, we were treated to a delicious repast of South Indian breakfast food. All good right? Well, the problem is that it was all vegetarian.
Although the situation has improved a tad, this is why I find Hats of Meat unbelievably funny. If you can’t look past the horrendous website design and you think this is like a domestic accident gone horribly wrong; then I’m sorry. But all I fixate on is the mound of meat.
In other news, the bombings in this here parts have compelled the hotel authorities to drag out two metal detectors and install them in the front lobby. Guests and visitors alike (there are lots of visitors to this hotel, there is a wedding reception on almost every night it seems) need to walk through the metal detector.
No one seems very concerned about monitoring the detector, or indeed, about a random beep when a metal detector wand is passed through a vehicle - but I guess it’s the thought that counts.
On 28-Jul-08 at 5:49 am,
Psy wrote:
The metal detector must be for insurance purposes.
The veg food there is amazing, I can handle it for about week and then I start slowly losing it.
On 28-Jul-08 at 6:52 pm,
drac wrote:
It must be for something, but no one is very bothered. I mean, we went for this marathon session yesterday and staggered back home on an auto (that’s a threewheeler).
The guard actually ran a metal detector wand over the back of the three wheeler. What did he expect, that the three wheeler was made of plastic?
It beeped. He didn’t blink. He waved us on.
On 31-Jul-08 at 6:56 pm,
rasti wrote:
It sounds oddly like one of those shoplifting detector device thingies that you find at malls. The stupid things always go off but no one’s really bothered by them.