The Samosa Sandwich Story

 The Samosa Sandwich Story :

Lisieux Higher Secondary School was an all boys school in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. This was quite a mouthful to expalin to the Delhi co-education school mates in Delhi in the bitter winter of 1979. 

I arrived in the cold winter and yet ill equipped to battle the Delhi Winter, its rough rude and abusive folks. I found warmth in the Hot Samosa Sandwich at The School Canteen during the Short Break.

It was basically a Hot Samosa dipped into a pumpkin tomato sauce and slipped between two  large slices of Modern or Brittania Bread. It was  heaven and blissful few minutes when the crunch of the samosa met the mush of the filling with the gooey sauce and the dry soft  white bread. The Duo Dayal and  his son Satish owned the Canteen and a staionery store in the school. They also ran a stationery store at The M Block Gk-1 Market after the School hours.They would do brisk busines by briskly and brusquely chirning out a few hundred in afew minutes of the break. For us the world could wait

The Canteen had Samosa Sandwich, four days a week and an option of a Bun Samosa two days a week, which was the oder cousin of the bread sandwich and was a tad more expensive. The Trendy beverage to go along was Campa- Cola, the Nerds had tea, they all became Doctors or went to IIT. We the Outlaws were happy with Samosa Sandwich and Campa Cola which in all cost a rupee and a half.

The Canteen was the Social hub where the who's who of South Delhi would meet and delicately nibble on the Samosa Sandwich and Stylishly Swig on the bottle of Campa Cola. Remniscing this on a rainy Day.