Me and my friend have been sitting in this café tucked into a corner of nowhere somewhere in this city that for all practical reasons, I refuse to name. This is probably the last thing we’re going to eat here, the unwelcome end to a rather uneventful trip nonetheless.
After a while, you figure out that every major city in India offers exactly the same things. A mall, KFC, McDonalds, Barrista, Café coffee day, Pizza hut, that just being the food, coupled with shopping malls that make you go ”Oh that’s nice” and then walk in the opposite direction when you see the price tag, and not to forget all the superficial people…
Pack all of this together and you get a major metropolitan city in India.
So we thought, let us do what we actually came here to do, which is what we’ve been doing for the past two days, which is what most college students do, when you let them loose in the midst of a city like this. We eat.
And so it arrived, our chocolate brownie fudge something sizzler.
You felt like you were crammed into a bakery and denied departure.
Heads turned and mouths watered and you felt like it was judgment day and you had passed with flying colours.
Chocolate sauce dripped over a perfect piece of chocolate brownie that was drowned in sizzling hot chocolate. It was an explosion of chocolate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top that gave the unique sensation of having something that is simultaneously both hot and cold.
Alluring to all five senses, the mixture of watching it arrive on that perfect wooden base, with the sound of it sizzling in hot chocolate to the hot cooked chocolate smell, with the taste of it melting in your mouth and the feeling of a burning tongue subdued by the refreshing cold of vanilla ice cream is TO-DIE-FOR..
And there you sat, feeling fat but not caring, slightly sleepy and you begin to hear “Hello…is there anybody out there…………..IIIII have become…….comfortably numb…” and you think right! So this is what the guy was actually talking about.
