Patents Blatants
Today has been a day of revelations of patent infringements for me. In the morning the daily TOI carried a report on a chinese mobike named "Gulsar" being launched in the Brazilian market. It's actually a fake clone of our very own Bajaj Pulsar and to top it all , even looks exactly like one. Will somebody teach ingenuity to China or is it just about copying , large scale manufacturing and dumping of goods ?
The second encounter was during my dinner meal at Sahara Ganj, a mall in Lucknow where we had gone to do some shopping. We had our meal at a food plaza where I bought a meal combo of a chicken 'maha' burger, a piece of fried chicken and a regular Pepsi from a stall called "Jack in the box". Only God knows what this name has to do with a restaurant? But, this is the case everywhere with these desi gone firang restaurants. Open up a supposedly multicuisine restaurant, give it a pseud yankee name and offer a brutally raped Indianised version of everything on menu. And worse still, they still have a huge target audience for that to lap up all the grub they offer.
Well coming back to where we were, all was fine....the food was yum, the quantity was filling, the Pepsi?...hmmm...well I dropped it on the floor even before tasting a drop of it. Well what struck me most was that the burger was an exact copy of a McDonald's one and the name was of a Nirula's burger!! andddd the chicken...well, I must say that after a very long time I've had a Kentucky Fried Chicken after it was forced to wind up it's operations in Delhi. It actually was a copy of the same though a bit more heavy on the palate. I guess the restaurant shud have named itself a Mc kentuckila's or a Nirulalds Fried chicken....whatever crap! But if somebody asks me, I'd go there again as for 70 flat bucks nobody can give u as much.
The second encounter was during my dinner meal at Sahara Ganj, a mall in Lucknow where we had gone to do some shopping. We had our meal at a food plaza where I bought a meal combo of a chicken 'maha' burger, a piece of fried chicken and a regular Pepsi from a stall called "Jack in the box". Only God knows what this name has to do with a restaurant? But, this is the case everywhere with these desi gone firang restaurants. Open up a supposedly multicuisine restaurant, give it a pseud yankee name and offer a brutally raped Indianised version of everything on menu. And worse still, they still have a huge target audience for that to lap up all the grub they offer.
Well coming back to where we were, all was fine....the food was yum, the quantity was filling, the Pepsi?...hmmm...well I dropped it on the floor even before tasting a drop of it. Well what struck me most was that the burger was an exact copy of a McDonald's one and the name was of a Nirula's burger!! andddd the chicken...well, I must say that after a very long time I've had a Kentucky Fried Chicken after it was forced to wind up it's operations in Delhi. It actually was a copy of the same though a bit more heavy on the palate. I guess the restaurant shud have named itself a Mc kentuckila's or a Nirulalds Fried chicken....whatever crap! But if somebody asks me, I'd go there again as for 70 flat bucks nobody can give u as much.
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