So this January I had the pleasure of attending three weddings in Lahore, one as a guest, and the other two as a family member. Before I left, everyone told me I would have a blast at the weddings, paki weddings are the best, etc etc. I was very optimistic and I still am, even though i didn’t have quite the time I thought I would. I could look past the ants crawling out of the cracks in the ceiling or from the floor, the lack of toilets/tissues/tables etc. But one incident really made me mad.
At one of the valimas I attended, they decided to serve shorba on a plate. Plus there were no tables, so while it was frustrating enough balancing a plate where the food might spill over onto my lengha, some mental midgets (I seriously hope thy weren’t from our side of the family) decided to throw entire plates of perfectly good salan on the FLOOR. It wasn’t just bones or nan that fell on teh floor and they decided to leave there, it was full botees. We saw this when the valima ended and we were on our way out. Needless to say a lot of us were angry.
People, including myself before this incident, complained about how the government was being stupid by banning food at weddings and then some idiots decided to do this? I don’t know about other parts of lahore, but where I’m from, there’s women and children constantly coming to the gullies, begging for food or a rupee. There’s little 6 year olds who should be in school are instead cleaning other ppls homes. Whether the beggars are faking or not, is another story. We look past them all the time, pretending they don’t exist and then some selfish ass.holes decide to throw their food on the ground like that? I wish I could have taken pictures to illustrate my point, or better yet have caught them in the act and said something.
Incidents like these show the ass-backward mentality of these jahil paindus. To paraphrase what a Gup said in another thread: You hold your religion, your God, your Prophets in the highest regard and yet you don’t even follow 1/10th of what your God has asked you to do or emulate the life of the Prophet (SAW), and you still consider yourself to be a part of that religion?
I have seen people throw away food at numerous parties. It makes me really really angry and half the time I tell them something to make them stop - of course it doesn’t work!
Giving a whole chicken tikka to a 3 year old kid so he/she can eat it is just SO BEYOND ME
it is sad yes. you know how much food PC/Marriot throws out every day after they're done with their all you can eat buffets? but they dont give it to the poor/hungry because phir line lag jaye gi.
Sara, all hassi mazaq aside, its a very common scene in Lahore even if you are attending at some five star hotel. People will waste food like crazy especially on weddings, why would they do it? Its very hard to find out why people do that, but I agree ignorance plays a big role in that.
Some times I think that our media and press should start educating the people about the very basic stuff rather than the garama garam news & nangay nangay daramy they provide every day. I wish they tell people that you are suppose to throw water after you use the toilet, or like don’t spit on the side walks or like kabhi Nakhun kat lya karain. Ahhh I wish…
You talkin bout Lahore or NY? I tink these are universally disgusting habits of not flushing, and spitting, esp among the disgusting ppl here (bronx) :yukh:
Sarah I hear you but you also got to factor in the population, population density. Pakistan is the size of Texas and it has the population nearing U.S. As far as the kids going to school, and basic hygene etc, they are used as bread winners. It is sad and government does take notice but needs to engage more aggressively, plus unfortunately the govt is to busy capturing the "best of Ummah" the heros. So give it some time Allah Acha Karsi.
Did you see people filling up plate with all they could and then leaving it half filled, that is really bad too because spilled food is an “accident” but leaving a food half plate is not an accident.
Govt banning food from wedding parties was really a great decision, I know a lots of food is wasted. I wish they could do it again!
hopefullly ur langha didnt got dirty in the festivity.. wasting of food at weddings is a very sickening phenomena.. people gulping down and throwing food worth few hundred thousand rupees in few hours.. but there are few other things to watch at a Pakistani weddings happening in open grounds... i have always observed there are few kids age between 3-12 without shoes, scarcely clothes asking people who are happlily throwing food at floor to give remains of their bones to them.. they greedily catch all they can in their plastic bags.. until they are kickedbeaten out of the place - why cant these few kids have some of the food that is being wasted.. and how happily they take half eaten bones and meat.. do we have time to take eyes of our lenghas and suits to see if they can be fed with some dignity..
^ I highly doubt this is exclusive to Lahore. Desis are way too extravagant when it comes to food, especially Pakistanis. Whatever happened to simplicity, and sticking to 2-3 main dishes instead of 6 different items. And really, they shouldn't do the buffets anymore. They should have a strict headcount for weddings guests and serve each person at the table a decent portion of food. I mean come on, noone pigs out at weddings and who needs more than one plate of food anyway?
I have a friend who says that for his walima he'll just feed 200 poor people. Sounds like a much better deal to me.
