Unhygienic street food! Public caught “Fuchka” sold using rotten potatoes near Holy Cross School

way2barak, Sept.15: Street foods are always a crowd puller in all parts of India. Especially, such street food carts could be noticed outside almost every school and college. A variety of food items are sold by those street foods vendors, which are primarily eaten by all sections of the populace. We hardly go for any quality check while we indulge in eating the so-called “tasty” street food.

Out of all such street foods, the spicy water balls, popularly known as “Golgappa” or “Fuchka” has got a special demand. Atleast one such cart of spicy water balls can be seen outside every educational institution in Silchar. On Thursday, one such “Golgappa wala” was caught red-handed by a person at Sonai Road, outside Holy Cross HS School, who was using black coloured rotten potatoes in preparing the mixture used inside the water balls.

A youth, Chingambam Ashish Singha too was eating the “delicious” Fuchka from the vendor who sets his cart just outside Holy Cross School. Initially, Ashish ate Fuchka worth Rs,20. He then again asked to give him Fuchka for another Rs.10. At that time, the potato mixture used inside the Fuchka was finished. So the vendor took out a boiled potato from a cartoon kept inside his cart. Ashish at once noticed that all the potatoes in the cartoon of the “Fuchka wala” were rotten and had become black. He started to record the same in his mobile phone, which he later shared in his Facebook.

Meanwhile, Ashish raised a hue and cry. People of the area soon came to the spot and also witnessed how the Fuchka-wala was using rotten potatoes. This angered the public. Ashish in his video was heard to tell the vendor that by eating such water balls prepared with rotten potatoes, the school students will fall ill. Initially, though the Fuchka-wala tried to argue, but finally, when many people accumulated there, he assured not to do so in the future.

In this case, thanks to the youth, Chingambam Ashish Singha, due to his keen observation, such unhygienic acts came to light and the vendor became bound to throw the rotten potatoes in the drain. But there are vendors all throughout the town selling such unhygienic food stuff resulting in illness among the consumers. Parents and guardians should make their children sensitive to such issues and debar them from eating street foods which are made using rotten materials. Even the school authorities needs to be strict and disallow such vendors to set up their carts just outside their campus.