Scroll Eating!!

                                                

Remember two years back when you were sitting all alone, getting cosy in your room, and you wanted little kebabs to put together a scrumptious evening. The food that would make you sing ‘cloud number nine’, by Bryan Adams. Yes, you do!! What would be the first step to the kingdom of heaven? First, you would take a long stride towards the fridge or probably the cupboard where you would find The Folder. It would contain all the precious pamphlets who have found the way into the presentation. The folder helped you to get a job, so that you could enjoy the delicacies of a wonderful life. The documents represented you. The interviewer would judge you on the basis of how you scored in your matrix examination. The questions would be raised doubting the authenticity of the information given to the chair in valid proofs. But now the roles have reversed!!

You would first select a candidate among the various applications that have been able to reach your door. Also note, some of the good and able candidates failed to reach your door because of external circumstances. They did not believe in advertising and just wanted to make the tummies of their customers happy. Or, they were not lucky enough to reach your footsteps. Second, you would deselect the ones who are either above or below your budget. Then after minutes of discussion with your brain and stomach of what you want to eat and how much you want to eat, you will reach to the final two or three prospects. Next is the most difficult part of the planning- Decision making. You do not want something that would ruin your night and along with that makes you proud of the decision you made. Then after spending almost hour of the bantering and asking yourself stupid questions like what I would like to eat if it were my last meal, you would decide to go to kitchen and boil yourself a two minute maggi noodles.

Now get out of the bubble you had created above you!! The future is here. Thanks to Zomato and similar apps, at least my life is a little better. Women go out for window shopping and I have invented a similar new hobby SCROLL EATING. I would scroll down thousands of restaurants and visit each and every one of them virtually. Looking at the photos shared, I would make future plans of visiting all the places one by one. I have literally thousands of restaurants bookmarked. Life was never this easy and comfortable. Oh, for the food delivery part, it’s the same. I end up eating the two minute maggi noodles. Now the options have increased and dishes are innumerous. Things have changed from informational shortage to informational overload. But I do think about all the food I would eat whilst standing next to stove!!!