{"id":26367,"date":"2016-05-18T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=26367"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:43:37","slug":"duronto-express-used-toilet-water-to-make-tomato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/duronto-express-used-toilet-water-to-make-tomato-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Water Used To Make &#8216;Tomato Soup&#8217; On Ernakulam-Mumbai Duronto Express!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, passengers of the Mumbai-bound Duronto Express protested for 15 minutes in Kozhikode after they found pantry staff using toilet water to make tomato soup.<\/p>\n<p>The train was travelling from Ernakulum to Mumbai when the passengers submitted the complaint to the station master of Kozhikode after a few of them saw a kitchen boy using water from the toilet tap to prepare tomato soup.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the passengers saw a kitchen boy using water from the toilet tap to prepare tomato soup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Angry passengers forced the train to halt at Kozhikode railway station for almost 15 minutes to protest the incident. They embarked on the train only after the Kozhikode station-master assured action regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26370 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/soup.jpg\" alt=\"soup\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/soup.jpg 700w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/soup-684x513.jpg 684w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/soup-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time that serving of poor quality food in trains have come to notice. Earlier, in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha had said that the blankets in A\/C coaches were washed only every two months. After the minister\u2019s confession, the Indian Railway decided to wash blankets after every use.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Angry passengers forced the train to halt at Kozhikode railway station for almost 15 minutes to protest the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During this year\u2019s railway budget, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had promised better quality food for the commuters, including baby food, hot milk, and hot water. But it seems like even if these promises become reality, the commuters will have to personally oversee the cooking as there is no guarantee of hygiene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, passengers of the Mumbai-bound Duronto Express protested for 15 minutes in Kozhikode after they found pantry staff using toilet water to make tomato soup. The train was travelling from Ernakulum to Mumbai when the passengers submitted the complaint to the station master of Kozhikode after a few of them saw a kitchen boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26373,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions\/26373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}