Reading 10 The College Canteen A canteen is not just the place where you go to eat. Especially in colleges this place is an open area for debating, passing love-letters, cracking gossips, kidding and having fun. It is the force of double “ f ” that drives you to come to a canteen as often as you can. Food and friends — both start with “ f ”— and canteen is the union zone for the two. College canteens build up an atmosphere of rendezvous where you would love to spend all day with pals. After the class gets over, you rush to the canteen, not to have a healthy meal. Rather you would love to take a bite of some snacks. You eat here firstly because it ’ s where you can have loads of chips, countless cups of tea and coffee that your mamma will scold of. Moreover, the whole canteen session is fun because it ’ s much related with sharing and caring. In most cases, it has been seen that a collective fund is raised for tea and snacks where each one has a weekly or monthly contribution. Therefore, canteen is something that brings you close. You can get rid of your worries and unhappiness when you are around the college canteen, because it ’ s a land of charm and joy. And it is always in motion. The mos No wonder the college canteen around the globe has given birth to music bands. The compositions and the lyrics all come from banging the canteen tables and creating instant jingles, sometimes to tease a newcomer, sometimes proposing a girl and sometimes after being refused for a proposal and many more like that. People who just crowd for fun also have something to learn here. When thoughts are raised, you, too, are made to think about them. In short, the college canteen is more than a simple hangout which adds different flavors to