My Maggie Experience

A very queer topic to write something about? Well, this stuff was going on a long time in my mind and finally i thot of writing this down. "Mummy bhook lagi hai..."... "Bas 2 minute?" and then Maggie ... thus would go the Maggie noodle Ad on TV a couple of years back. Maggie is presumably the oldest and the tastiest easy to cook snack.

Ok so what made me write this blog about Maggie? A couple of months back, Maggie came up with an Ad asking people to send their "Maggie Experience" to them. The Maggie experience of people and their photos would be printed on the Maggie packet. It sounded a bit interesting to me, since i always found Maggie to be close to my heart, rather to my stomach.

I have so many such experiences with Maggie. I just find it so handy when my stomach growls, and i need something tasty to satiate my taste buds at the same time. My first experience with Maggie was i guess when i was about 8 years old, when Maggie had come advertising the noodles in our school. I remember each one of us getting one packet and immediately after going home, me asking my mom to cook it for me... Though i dont remember having liked it very much that time. I guess after that till my college , i had Maggie only ocassionally.

My stint with Maggie started when i attended my Engineering College: Goa Engineering College(GEC) and had to stay as a hostelite. My college and hostel were situated on a hillock away from commercial shops. The only link to commercial world to us was Ponda... And travel was equally difficult for all of us. We had to either have our own bikes, walk up and down the hill or stay dependent on the College busses which ran on certain timing. One such bus for the hostelites used to start at 7 in the evening and it used to ferry up the hill at 8.30 back. So we had to rely on tht bus itself.

There used to be a dearth of Water in the hostel sometimes. No water meant no Mess.. and hence no food cooked for us... we hostelites had to either make arrangements going to Ponda(Cafe Bhosle or Hotel Sanman) or hav nominal biscuits in the hostel itself. And when it was Semester time, it used to be difficult to go to Ponda, since the bus would be crowded and we couldn't afford to walk up the hill and waste our time. My mom came to my rescue .. She bought a hot plate for me and there i was, started cooking Maggie..rather Maggie to the rescue...

Eating Maggie in the Final year hostel was fun. Me, Rowee and Shilpa cooked Maggie whenever there was a water problem. Thank God we used to store ample water. Chatting with each other during Maggie break(Dinner break) and then studing.. burning the midnight oil :). It was so much fun to have Maggie with friends... We used to pile a stock of Maggie and keep!

My maggie stint continued when i reached Pune. We at I2IT used to stay awake late in the night completing Assignments and projects. Me and My group used to always go down to the Cafetaria at 1.30 in the night to find something to Eat. and that something used to be always Maggie... Rajesh Bhaiyya (The Cafetaria manager) had got so acquainted with our group and our timing... I used to always ask for a Tikhi(Pungent) Maggie. And the moment i used to go to order one, Rajesh Bhaiyya used to say.. "One extra tikhi Maggie"... I wonder how i used to eat it.. it used to be laced with chilli powder... and then my friends used to order banana milk shake for me... I used to hav 2 glasses... The Maggie we got in our Cafe was the best... so many different types... Plain Maggie, Chicken Maggie, Egg Maggie, Omellette Maggie, Cheese Maggie and so many others...

My best Maggie experience was high up in the Himalayas... how?? Well after Marriage, me and sriman had gone for a trip to Manali. High up in the snowclad mountains, there are shops selling Maggie. That is the best maggie i ever had in my life. Its so chilling high up there, and the hot and tasty maggie makes your day. I remember that Maggie everytime i remember Manali. The plain normal Maggie is priced at 80Rs per plate there, but it is all worth the cost.

And Last but not the least, my final Maggie experience in Pune. My Brother told me that one of his friends makes very tasty Maggie, and he just tosses it in Butter immediately before taking off the stove... I tried it and yippie... I made another Maggie recipe... "Butter Tossed Maggie" a delicious one...During my deputation in Pune, thanks to my hectic work , i used to wrap up my work at odd hours when there wouldnt be any restaurants open. And when my Lead asked me about dinner plans, i would meekly say with a giggle.. "Maggie"...

So Friends... here are all my Maggie experiences. I know all of us love Maggie and will have so many such tales to tell.. This is a tribute from me to one of the tastiest and wonderful snack i'd love to have... Thanks Maggie for being there whenever i feel hungry and therz nothing sensible to eat... you make my day...