Member-only story
When The Veg Variant Is Added As The Default Option
Are vegetarians treated better in India? Depends on where you live and whom you ask.
Introduction
I had gone on a long drive to the outskirts of my city last weekend to unwind and relax after a long week at home. Anyone living with their parents in their late 30’s and performs all the tasks at home as their primary caregiver along with their own day jobs knows exactly what “a long week at home” feels like. I was yearning for this drive particularly since I hadn’t done a highway drive in a very long time, a few months to be exact. Nothing hectic. The drive is just about 90 minutes or so one way, but soothing and therapeutic nonetheless.
There’s a Mc Donalds right by the highway located inside what’s known as a highway mall here. The mall has all kinds of facilities one would require during an interstate drive on a highway such as rest rooms, changing rooms, refreshment points with restaurants, cafes, and ice cream parlours, expansive seating within a large courtyard; fountains, landscaping, dim lighting, the works, rooms for lodging, and even a petting zoo. Well, if you consider a bunch of rabbits rounded up into a play pen to be a petting zoo that is!
I wasn’t returning from another city. I just wanted to do a small drive to this highway mall, get a Mc meal for the road…
