Three things we can stop doing once Maggi is back in our lives

The announcement of the life-time has been made ladies and gentlemen and it’s brought infinite happiness into our hearts.

No, it’s not the name of the Nobel Prize winners or the release date of Shahrukh Khan’s next blockbuster, but the news that Maggi has cleared all the tests (like the kids who go on to study at IIT & IIMs) and will be back in our lives as soon as the next two weeks.

To put this eloquently in words, it almost feels like a dream come true; akin to the joy of meeting your favourite celebrity in person or the comfort of being back to the familiarity of your own room after a strenuous night out.

Maggi is not just an instant noodle brand. It’s a way of life. Think about it, Maggi has been our silent companion through late studying nights in school and college. It’s never left our side during assignments or during afternoons when we’ve been hungry but have had nothing to eat. It made us believe that if we had Maggi packets in our possession, we would never starve ourselves to death. And, for people who have been rendered unequipped to function in the kitchen without burning things, that’s an incredible gift.

Hence, Maggi’s absence from our lives for what seemed like an eternity was a trying period for us, one that was even worse than Uday Chopra’s career in movie. (Yes, that bad).

But, like they say, all’s well that ends well. Now that we’ll have Maggi back into our lives, we can finally stop doing these three annoying things.


1. Pretend that we’re okay without Maggi: Look, I know we’ve kept on with this for months, but it’s time we stop hiding behind the walls and tell Maggi the magic three words- Don’t leave us. We mean it. Without a bowl of your goodness, our lives make no sense. We’re not okay, and won’t be until we have you, again.

2. Learning how to cook: There are two types of people in this world. One, who can cook delicious things and go on to become the winners/runners-up of Masterchef and the other who sit in front of their television screens and devour all the episodes with a packet of nacho chips in their hands.

Most of us fall in the second category and we don’t need to mould ourselves to be included in the first category now that we have Maggi.
Plus, our parents wouldn’t be too happy with a burnt up kitchen, would they now?

3. Telling ourselves Maggi can be replaced: When we had Maggi in our life, it was the only thing that mattered. But, due to its absence we’ve been forced to pay attention to, and even worse remember the names of other instant noodle brands and after a careful discussion with our taste-buds, we’ve come to this conclusion. No noodle brand can substitute the warm, fuzzy feeling that Maggi’s deliciousness gives us.

Take that, Wai wai.

And, Ching’s, you need to try harder.

Because this time, we’re going to hoard on... err hold on to you forever, Maggi.

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