Shikanji VS Ice-Tea

For all those ignorant snob out there, a shikanji is a khatta meetha nimboo-pani.

Sometimes if you are lucky its got jal jeera in it too! And let me tell you it tastes absolutely heavenly when you have been running around the town doing countless things and you don’t even have any time for a quick bite.

Generally it can be found under a tree shade or a small decrypt gully on a thela.

Bhaiya, the vendor keeps a earthen-ware, ghada, filled with ice cool water without ice(and its harmful effects).

Invariably people who drink it are down to earth, street smart and money smart too.

They don’t pay outrageous sum of money to buy water in designer bottles, when they can get it for free from they tap. Its not about money for these people, just the funda .

Why should they pay for designer water when tap water is perfectly fine, sometimes even better than bottled water. Most of the bottled water is just refined filter water that tastes yuk! What with all the minerals gone out of them.

These people are perfectly content to eat 5Rs wada pav on the corner shop or the local station, than spend absurd amount of money in Mc Donald's to eat a burger that’s not even tasty! (Actually whats with the Mc Donald people don’t they know that this is India, you’ve got to put some salt and spice in that thing and cook it. We aren’t at cro magnon stage any more that we eat raw uncooked no spiced food. Sheesh.)

They do this not because they cant afford it but because they’d rather spend there hard earned money for better use than Mc Donald's.

These people do not go to the new “in” bistro to have a tinsy weensy cup of coffee for outrageous amounts of green cash, sit politely on the soft couch and talk non sense on non sense topics. Like how much does a car cost! Mahn a vehicle is a vehicle it takes you from point A to point B. Its eggactly like those duffer Americans inventing a million dollar pen to use in space when a pencil would have done. Duh!

No wonder they love shikanji.

Now for all those nose on the grind stone people ( hey! hey! hey! don’t take offense, I am on your side.)that get tired of the HI-FY’s flashing there platinum (plastic) cards walking past them.

Ice-Tea is a concussion of green tea in water with a dash of honey and lime. It comes in all size’s and flavors, varying from blackcurrant to strawberry.

Personally I can understand why in the world would someone want to drink strawberry flavored “chai”. Maybe its just me.

Oh yeah I forgot to tell you an important warning- ice tea often contains a tannin a diuretic! The good news is the places where you find Ice-Tea usually have these state of art ( why would anyone need art in a bathroom is beyond the capabilities of my mind) bathroom.

People usually frequenting places like barista and CCD are the rich kids. Bratz is more like it. Yup I called them bratz. With good reason because they sit there in their 800 rs tee’s n 1000 rs jeans with an apple i-pod and a qwerty pad mobile, drinking a 100 ml of bitter tasting thing for which they pay hundreds of rupees!

Oh the waste.

Whats pathetic is that not a single rupee from that 1900Rs ensemble draped on a worthless hide is their. nope they’ve never even lifted a single finger in there life for a single coin.

Wanna know something more hilarious, these kids body system go haywire if they even drink tap water by mistake. BAM! And they are sick. Such shitty immune system.

Oh no no no. but they still want the perfectly purified bottled water. Just a bunch of psychotics I tell ya.

If you put even one of this bratz on the road and tell them to go home with less than 50 rs in there pocket. I bet that they’ll hyperventilate at the though of riding the local bus with the lowly common people. on top of that they’ll panic when so many people brush against them in the post working hour rush.

It wont take a genius to know by now that this article has nothing to do with a couple of harmless drinks but about the mind set and mentality of youngsters.

Not to say that I ain’t one myself.

I have friend from both side of the tracks and I like everyone of them.

In either case guess who I’d choose. Ooh I like Ice-Tea just fine, I even love it some times. But its just that standing beside the thela and drinking shikanji after a days works with my so inclined friends would win hands down any time.

So go on have a drink on me.

Cheers!