Panera Bread

The fortress did not have any guards, but certainly was well guarded by its thick walls on all sides. Completely. 360 degree. Thatz Panera Bread (a local chain of restaurants) sour dough for you (featured in the picture below). The lump of bread has an impermeable crust, which appears like a well cooked pork, and is a feast.... for the eyes. The plastic spoons which accompany the meal are no match against the defence of the crust. The plastic spoons gave away, and had their spinal cords broken when we used them as soldiers against the fortress of the bread.
Subbu, Sarvesh, Reggie, and Shilpa had accompanied me on the friday meal to give a send off party to Kanna, the IIM grad, working for Infy, moving to Seattle in the weekend. The most interesting part was.... Kanna was not there in the party. ;-)
He had to take care of all the women.
Ahem!!! Doesn't that make the story juicy??? ;-)
But, the juice is more sour ;-)
The women who were cruel BAs of his office, who were not letting him free even in the last few hours that he was at office, before eloping to Seattle.......... with two boys, Gowda and Sarvesh....heh heh.... what did you think???
Coming back to the bread fortress, we mused about how to attack it, and cut it open. Just then, Subbu came up with this wonderful idea to remove its lid (the thick crusted bread, had a thick crust lid???!!! ) and pour all the soup (veggie soup, which resembled 'Tomato Sambar', but was charged more than twenty five times than in India) into the dead bread.
We did that, and managed to soften the dehydrated lump.
Few vain attempts, and a lot of jokes later, we decided to call it quits, and beat the retreat in our war against the (almost metallic tough) sour dough.
Out came Subbu's 'housemade Bisibele baath', from his lunch box, which he had prepared for later use. We rampaged on it like the hungry lads of the Mumbai slums. ;-)
The unknown female, who was to be impressed by Subbu's culinary skills had to excuse him that day, I guess ;-)

The picture below stars tragically puzzled Sarvesh, trying to use his engineering skills to find the point of weakness of the material. He definitely would have scored a great deal in his Engineering 'Strength of Materials', but miserably failed to make his way through the monstrous mould.