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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Kids
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Community / Home
- Published: 08/09/2016
Rico's Fast Food
Born 1982, M, from Rafha, Saudi Arabia“Hey guys –checks this out!” Naveed, a young 17 year old Sixth former at Queen Mary School in Manchester called his friends, Richard, Linda and Luke over to his table in the canteen
“Oh hi, Naveed! I see you’ve got some interesting lunch today!” Linda said cheerfully
“Yeah, my grandad just got from India and got me these snacks! Here try some!” Naveed explained as he invited them to join him
“What’s that?!” Luke asked
“It’s dhokla…sort of like a steamed basin cake that you eat with mint chutney!”
“…and that?” Richard asked again
“This? This is…oh my God! You’ve gotta try this! It’s my favourite –pani puri!”
“What’s that?!” Luke asked
“Pani puri! What you do is you poke holes into it like this, put some chickpeas inside, dip it this watery stuff and *crunch* mmm!” Naveed said as he demonstrated how to eat it, eating one pani puri in one bite and shutting his eyes to fully concentrate on the taste. Finally he opened his eyes and noticed them staring at him with disgust.
“What? Here, have some jalebi!” Naveed said as he looked at them and wanted to give Richard a round, stringy but very sticky orange syrupy sweet
“Eww! That’s gross!” Richard said, leaning back and putting his hands in the way
“Why don’t you try this? It’s from Rico’s –they’ve got the best sandwiches and fresh juice in town!” Linda said as she tried to give him a sandwich instead
“Thanks, but I don’t really like fast food much”
“Why not? Everybody’s going crazy over it!” Linda asked
“That’s exactly the problem - it causes all sorts of problems!”
“Like what?” Luke asked
“Like…I don’t know. How does someone end up with a RAT in their cheese sandwich?!”
“And what about Indian food? They flood the food with oil and serve it in newspaper!”
“Not always -some places are really clean. That’s why I try to stick to natural food and why my Nan’s teaching my sister, Nazia, how to cook. It’s not so much the oil that’s a problem but all the artificial stuff that really kills you, like 10% juice with 90% water and artificial oil. Artificial this, artificial that -I’ve even heard that drinking out of plastic cups causes cancer!” Naveed explained
“…ok, ok. We’re running out of time –let’s eat before the break finishes! You go your way and we’ll go ours!” Linda interrupted, noticing the time. After eating, they all headed back to class
That evening as Richard, Linda and Luke were returning home, they walked past a Rico’s take away and decided to stop.
“Just for fun, how about we go inside the kitchen and show Naveed just how clean it really is?” Richard suggested
“What if we get caught?”
“Oh, don’t worry about it! People do all sorts of undercover filming. Besides, I’ve got an idea!”
Richard told Linda and Luke his idea and they went inside to put it into practice. Linda went to the sales assistant and started placing an order while taking her time looking up at the menu and deciding what to order in order to distract the sales assistant. Suddenly, there was a loud crash as Luke knocked over some glass onto the floor, causing it to shatter and spilt Pepsi and 7up all over the floor, table and counter, causing further distractions.
While the sales assistant was distracted, Richard quickly ran inside the staff room behind the counter and immediately hid himself but rushing into the small toilet and locking it behind him. As he caught his breath, he looked around and noticed some small bottles on the shelf near the toilet, which he noticed were labelled “Lemon Juice”. A horrible idea crossed his mind but he quickly dismissed it and simply took a photo of the bottles then went out.
Hiding behind a wall, he starting filming and watching the staff working in the perfectly normal looking kitchen. That was until he saw a sales assistant speaking to another working in the kitchen:
“Hey, where’s the special “saucy sandwich” order 315?”
“Here you go –and here’s the “saucy sandwich” special!” a kitchen staff member said as opened the sandwich, spat inside it, put it in a bag and gave it to the sales assistant to serve to the customer
“…now take it to that %”&@ customer!” Richard felt disgusted as he watched what was happening and thought about how much he loved the saucy sandwich
“Oi! What do you think you’re doing?!” Richard jumped as the sales assistant noticed him
Richard ran out the back door as fast as he could, hiding his mobile phone in his pocket as the angry sales assistant chased after him. Richard ran much further ahead and reached a dark alleyway, wondering what to do. Panting, he opened the lid of a blue lid recycle bin and found it to be empty. As he felt the sales assistant might be nearby, he jumped inside and shut the lid…
One week later…
“Three students from Queen Mary’s School in Manchester uncover unhygienic practices at one of the main branches of Rico’s…” Naveed read a Facebook post
“…they found small bottles in the toilets labelled “Lemon juice” and filmed a kitchen staff member spit inside their famous “saucy sandwich” instead of using real sauce before giving it to a sales assistant to serve to a customer. Police have called Rico’s Fast Food CEO, Mr Enrico Rico for questioning and are currently investigating the malpractices”.
“So I guess you won’t be eating out at Rico’s any time soon! What are you guys having for lunch today?”
“I don’t know –we’ll think of something.” Richard said, shrugging his shoulders
“Here, have some dabeli!” Naveed said as he quickly put some spices and potatoes inside a bread that looked a bun and then tried to hand it to Richard
“Delhi Belly?!”
“Dabeli! Here try some –you’ll like it!” Richard hesitantly took it and tried it
“Hey that’s pretty good! Got any more?”
“Sure, help yourself!”
And so the friends ate together and shared their food, thinking twice before they went out for any fast food
The End
Read other books by the author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mahir-Gazdar/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AMahir%20Gazdar
www.storystar.com/php/read_story.php?story_id=11500
Watch videos by the author: https://www.youtube.com/user/worldofarabic/videos
Rico's Fast Food(Mahir Gazdar)
“Hey guys –checks this out!” Naveed, a young 17 year old Sixth former at Queen Mary School in Manchester called his friends, Richard, Linda and Luke over to his table in the canteen
“Oh hi, Naveed! I see you’ve got some interesting lunch today!” Linda said cheerfully
“Yeah, my grandad just got from India and got me these snacks! Here try some!” Naveed explained as he invited them to join him
“What’s that?!” Luke asked
“It’s dhokla…sort of like a steamed basin cake that you eat with mint chutney!”
“…and that?” Richard asked again
“This? This is…oh my God! You’ve gotta try this! It’s my favourite –pani puri!”
“What’s that?!” Luke asked
“Pani puri! What you do is you poke holes into it like this, put some chickpeas inside, dip it this watery stuff and *crunch* mmm!” Naveed said as he demonstrated how to eat it, eating one pani puri in one bite and shutting his eyes to fully concentrate on the taste. Finally he opened his eyes and noticed them staring at him with disgust.
“What? Here, have some jalebi!” Naveed said as he looked at them and wanted to give Richard a round, stringy but very sticky orange syrupy sweet
“Eww! That’s gross!” Richard said, leaning back and putting his hands in the way
“Why don’t you try this? It’s from Rico’s –they’ve got the best sandwiches and fresh juice in town!” Linda said as she tried to give him a sandwich instead
“Thanks, but I don’t really like fast food much”
“Why not? Everybody’s going crazy over it!” Linda asked
“That’s exactly the problem - it causes all sorts of problems!”
“Like what?” Luke asked
“Like…I don’t know. How does someone end up with a RAT in their cheese sandwich?!”
“And what about Indian food? They flood the food with oil and serve it in newspaper!”
“Not always -some places are really clean. That’s why I try to stick to natural food and why my Nan’s teaching my sister, Nazia, how to cook. It’s not so much the oil that’s a problem but all the artificial stuff that really kills you, like 10% juice with 90% water and artificial oil. Artificial this, artificial that -I’ve even heard that drinking out of plastic cups causes cancer!” Naveed explained
“…ok, ok. We’re running out of time –let’s eat before the break finishes! You go your way and we’ll go ours!” Linda interrupted, noticing the time. After eating, they all headed back to class
That evening as Richard, Linda and Luke were returning home, they walked past a Rico’s take away and decided to stop.
“Just for fun, how about we go inside the kitchen and show Naveed just how clean it really is?” Richard suggested
“What if we get caught?”
“Oh, don’t worry about it! People do all sorts of undercover filming. Besides, I’ve got an idea!”
Richard told Linda and Luke his idea and they went inside to put it into practice. Linda went to the sales assistant and started placing an order while taking her time looking up at the menu and deciding what to order in order to distract the sales assistant. Suddenly, there was a loud crash as Luke knocked over some glass onto the floor, causing it to shatter and spilt Pepsi and 7up all over the floor, table and counter, causing further distractions.
While the sales assistant was distracted, Richard quickly ran inside the staff room behind the counter and immediately hid himself but rushing into the small toilet and locking it behind him. As he caught his breath, he looked around and noticed some small bottles on the shelf near the toilet, which he noticed were labelled “Lemon Juice”. A horrible idea crossed his mind but he quickly dismissed it and simply took a photo of the bottles then went out.
Hiding behind a wall, he starting filming and watching the staff working in the perfectly normal looking kitchen. That was until he saw a sales assistant speaking to another working in the kitchen:
“Hey, where’s the special “saucy sandwich” order 315?”
“Here you go –and here’s the “saucy sandwich” special!” a kitchen staff member said as opened the sandwich, spat inside it, put it in a bag and gave it to the sales assistant to serve to the customer
“…now take it to that %”&@ customer!” Richard felt disgusted as he watched what was happening and thought about how much he loved the saucy sandwich
“Oi! What do you think you’re doing?!” Richard jumped as the sales assistant noticed him
Richard ran out the back door as fast as he could, hiding his mobile phone in his pocket as the angry sales assistant chased after him. Richard ran much further ahead and reached a dark alleyway, wondering what to do. Panting, he opened the lid of a blue lid recycle bin and found it to be empty. As he felt the sales assistant might be nearby, he jumped inside and shut the lid…
One week later…
“Three students from Queen Mary’s School in Manchester uncover unhygienic practices at one of the main branches of Rico’s…” Naveed read a Facebook post
“…they found small bottles in the toilets labelled “Lemon juice” and filmed a kitchen staff member spit inside their famous “saucy sandwich” instead of using real sauce before giving it to a sales assistant to serve to a customer. Police have called Rico’s Fast Food CEO, Mr Enrico Rico for questioning and are currently investigating the malpractices”.
“So I guess you won’t be eating out at Rico’s any time soon! What are you guys having for lunch today?”
“I don’t know –we’ll think of something.” Richard said, shrugging his shoulders
“Here, have some dabeli!” Naveed said as he quickly put some spices and potatoes inside a bread that looked a bun and then tried to hand it to Richard
“Delhi Belly?!”
“Dabeli! Here try some –you’ll like it!” Richard hesitantly took it and tried it
“Hey that’s pretty good! Got any more?”
“Sure, help yourself!”
And so the friends ate together and shared their food, thinking twice before they went out for any fast food
The End
Read other books by the author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mahir-Gazdar/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AMahir%20Gazdar
www.storystar.com/php/read_story.php?story_id=11500
Watch videos by the author: https://www.youtube.com/user/worldofarabic/videos
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