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Not anymore in english, because the second went basically completely extinct except a few location- or activity-specific exceptions like food trucks and sport c
by giraffe_lady 2y ago
Not anymore in english, because the second went basically completely extinct except a few location- or activity-specific exceptions like food trucks and sport concessions.
- puzzledobserver 2y agoNot really. Or at least not completely extinct in South India. Some of my favorite childhood memories are from these messes (short for mess hall, I assume). You go there, pay what they ask, eat what they serve. MTR, Brindavan on MG Road (though that's long gone), Iyer Mess in Malleshwaram. What they lack in choice they usually make up for in taste. You're right that they have a more traditional ambience and newer restaurants offer more choice, but they are definitely thriving in the parts of Bangalore that I grew up in.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoYeah sorry I intended there to be a more clear constraint on the claim I was making. It's mostly extinct in the anglosphere, so english doesn't really differentiate. But the concept itself is still popular globally.
- mindcrime 2y agoI think "cafeteria" as used by outfits like S&W Cafeteria, etc. would have been somewhat close to the idea of "a place where you get what is available", but they have - as you say - mostly gone away. I suppose a "buffet" would also be close, in that you get to pick your food, but you're picking from an array of pre-prepared items with no room for variation for the most-part. As opposed to "made to order".