Eating Fast Food Out

I know most of you don't eat fast food.

Who doesn't know that eating fast food is not good for health? Some people refer to these foods as "junk food." Those are food items available in restaurants.

The most notorious junk foods are available with temporary roadside vendors.

• Sometimes, these junk food sellers move around the suburbs on a hand-pulled (or pushed) four-wheeled van. We may often see them on cute vending stylist motorized vans with easy vending windows on one side of the van. These are common in the towns of most Asian countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc.

• Temporary fast-food sellers are not uncommon in developed nations. I had seen these types of vendors even on the lanes of Tokyo. The difference between the junk food vendors in Tokyo and India is in cleanliness and politeness. I found the sellers in Tokyo are more polite than those in India.

In April 2016, I had eaten Mexican fast foods on the roadside of Baltimore, MD, USA. I also had eaten some Iranian-style fast food outside a railway station in Ukraine in October 2016.

The purpose of the article is not to encourage you to eat fast food.

• The small purpose is described below. Will you read further?

I can't say I like to eat junk foods out

• I can't say I like eating out, not even in a posh restaurant. I generally don't buy such foods unless circumstances compel me. These foods are not tasteless yet not very tasty. Still, I buy fast foods once in a while.

You may ask me "Why do you buy those fast or junk foods once in a while?"

• Everybody would agree that the quality of food can't be maintained in a temporary food vending stall or van. Thus, one can't expect high quality and tasty fast food from them. They are somehow managing the food preparation in a minimal facility available in a make-shift vending stall/van.

Suppose most people reject fast foods, and then what would happen to the business of these people? How can they survive and earn their livelihood?

I buy fast food from roadside vendors once in a while to support their business

There are large numbers of temporary food sellers on the roadsides of third-world countries. Most fast-food sellers are young. and a few are older.

• Most of these roadside vendors have come into the fast-food business because they haven't found any other way to earn their livelihood.

• Selling fast food is not their choice. They don't have other career choices. Their nations' governments haven't done anything to create enough employment opportunities.

Sometimes, I go to these roadside vendors and buy their hurriedly prepared egg rolls, noodles, fried rice, momo, etc. Maybe once in two weeks, I buy fast foods from them.

See how they prepare a typical fast food item

During the early days of December 2021, I went to buy egg rolls at a roadside roll counter in Kolkata, India. It is a small stall put up beside the footpath of the main road.

These shops generally open in the evening and remain operational till 11 pm. The shops are adjacent to the crowded marketplace. Thus, these shops get enough customers.

When I expressed to snap a video of the preparation process. the shop owner gladly agreed. Making an egg roll is not difficult. We need proper utensils.

• First, the big iron pan is heated and wiped with oil. Then, the flour preform is put on the heated pan. Next, one egg is broken and poured on it. The item is then vigorously rotated on the pan with a spoon.

Graphics 01: Preparation of egg roll - GIF created from a video captured by me.

When the item is appropriately fried, it is then placed on a table and is stuffed with salad and tomato as well as chili sauces. Finally, the item is rolled and covered with tissue-like papers.

Graphics 02: Stuffing salad and sauce - GIF created from a video captured by me.

The final product is covered with a special variety of tissue-like papers. I am not fond of fast food. Despite I must admit that the taste of these egg rolls is good. I have known the shop owner for about five years. He makes a decent earning, somehow enough to run his daily livelihood.

Selling fast food is a bread-earning business for many

I am not fond of buying and eating fast food from roadside vendors.

Although my partner and I regularly cook, once or twice a month, we buy fast food items from roadside food sellers

It seems that our family doesn't dislike eating egg rolls, momo, etc., purchased from the temporary fast-food sellers.

I consider it as a contribution to my fellow citizens in earning a livelihood from their fast food selling business.

I hope some of these vendors may be able to save enough money or take an entrepreneurial bank loan and create a traditional restaurant.

Conclusion

I have written why we buy fast food from the temporary roadside vendors.

I have tried to give a glimpse of how they prepare and serve their customers.

I consider it my small contribution to support the businesses of the fast-food sellers. It is their career they made out of necessity.

May I ask my ReadCash VIP connections to offer their opinions about buying fast food from roadside vendors? Do they support these small business holders?

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Postscript

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Text Copyright: Unity

Lead Image: GIF image created using the text from the title and a photo I snapped in a fast food shop in December 2021.

All other graphics and videos (if any) are credited just below it.

Disclaimer: All texts are mine and original. Any similarity and resemblance to any other content are purely accidental. The article is not advice for life, career, business, or investment. Do your research before adopting any options.

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March 26, 2022.