Current obsession

Mangoes are long gone…esp. my love hapoos but new obsessions come and go. With medu vada making me sick this week, making me regret of not eating veg/vegetable cheese sandwich instead, I finally turned to chutney sandwich today. Having lovely fluffy soft idlis and Sāmbhar with bobbling tomato bits but at 7.30 am in the morning and with the “chotu giant” in my stomach, I managed to get famished by 10.30 am. Our office has a completely forgettable canteen (which incidentally had only one good item which was medu vada…that monster which made me sick for two days) and an OK lovely sandwich corner. The reason for this compliment is that since this sandwich corner came to existence, my remaining ties with the dreaded canteen got severed. If no lunch, there is veg/vegetable cheese club sandwich, and breakfast usually is a veg/vegetable cheese toast or sandwich (cheese n veg/vegetable constant ha-ha). Evening again sandwiches of above kind. But today I was not that in a mood for a toast or a heavy veg/vegetable cheese (strange but true) and I thought of chutney sandwich (not existing in menu) “chutney sandwich milel kai?” (my love for ma langue maternelle crops up at moments when I see that the person serving is Marathi speaking, be it the lovely lady who is assisting in the rest room, or the gentle security guard who greets me good morning every time I give my bag for scrutiny in the office or the BEST bus conductor or driver or a rickshaw driver a shopkeeper in vile Parle, I feel really encouraged to use Marathi…and in this case the sandwich maker…now this is the height of digressing ) after paying a real modest 10 rs, I caught hold of the plate having a simple yet amazing fare. What it would do to my taste buds was yet to be experienced.
The bread was brown (real brown bread since this one crisps when toasted/grilled and not turn to be chewy, which a white bread slice does) and there were three slices of bread ,quartered, neatly arranged one upon the other. Non toasting had kept the bread moist and soft. The edges removed (a waste). A bite sent me to fluffy cloud 7. The slices abundantly buttered…diet may be damned (and currently not required), with a thinner but adequate layer of fiery green chutney. Each bite was fragrant and soft as cotton, flavored with garlic, ginger, coriander leaves and green chilly chutney, salty with addition of a bit of salt and pepper for taste, and of course the slippery, smooth saltiness of yellow amul butter. The quarters got over just a bit soon, leaving me satiated only physically but mentally I wanted to have just one more bite of chutney sandwich