Dine with the Dead

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Have you ever had the feeling that your dinnertimes were too shallow? That having a cup of tea with people that are alive is far too mainstream? That restaurants buzzing with life are too boring? Well, you must not worry, because apparently, you are not alone.

Meet 'Lucky' from India, a busy restaurant which despite the fact that it was built on a graveyard and still contains coffins of the deceased, is bustling with life. Attendees of the restaurant have no idea that the zombies apocalypse is nearing and that at any waking moment they will join the deceased without having the ability to retain their brains - or perhaps in dining with the dead they are attempting to make allies for when the apocalypse comes - in which case, they would be cleverly enjoying a cup of tea with some zombies while the rest of us run for our lives, literally. 

It is just bizarre that such a thing exists. People cannot fathom the reasoning behind it, and when people from Melbourne, Australia hear about it I am sure that they too will freak out. Little do we Melbournians know, though, that we have been doing so all along as well. Yes, when I say this I am referring to the Queen Victoria Market, a market heavily attended by tourists and locals alike on a daily basis that was built on a graveyard and that still has bodies of the deceased resting below it. In this instance, visitors trod all over the unmarked graves without acknowledging their presence. There is no room for ally making here, because all you will find is bargain hunting and profit making continuously happening. There is no attention paid to the fact that beneath our feet are zombies in the making, eavesdropping on our conversations of how good the Spanish donuts there are, on how damn cheap that shirt was, and on how clueless we are of their presence. 

Visitors of 'Lucky' claim that they feel refreshed and indeed lucky after dining there. A corpse after being interviewed said "I like being here more than I did when it was just us lying here. Now I have more people to listen to and delicious food to smell. I have never felt so alive!" Similarly, another corpse stated that he was "lucky to be here." All other corpses simply nodded with agreement.  This just may be where the name of the restaurant derived from. "Once you dine with us," he continued, "we give you both a blessing and our company. We may not smell that good or look that good but we communicate from within our coffins so as not to interrupt your enjoyment too."

I would personally never consume anything in that restaurant, nor would I even breathe nor be anywhere in its proximity in the first place. I have nothing against corpses, I really do not. I just prefer to eat food in a place that does not remind me of my inevitable demise.