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Hotstuff was a copy of a copy - of Delhi's Nirulas, which itself was a copy of McDonald's. <br>Young boys and girls went to Hotstuff not so much for the food as for the ambiance: colourful balloons, loud pop music and a touch of glitz and glamour, if one can call it that. <br>Fast food has always been expensive in India.<br><br>The thing to do was to buy one milk shake and sit over it for two hours. <br>You'd saved for it for a whole month. 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The shop selling tandoori chicken and rumali rotis survived KFC. <br>Some feared that they'd be eaten up by the American chains but that didn't happen. <br>Price-conscious India got bang for its buck not in KFC but at the tandoori chicken joint.<br>American junk food always seemed overpriced in comparison. <br>It's worth thinking if the trend of levying a sin tax has to do with our tendency to blame self-inflicted ills on a foreign hand. <br>Middle-class India's dependence on servants means that the sedentary lifestyle is widespread and a major cause of diabetes. <br>In July, Kerala went ahead with its plans of levying a 14.5 per cent fat tax on fast food. <br>The state only has about seven McDonald's and nine Domino's outlets. American fast food is not even popular there. <br>Changes <br>North Indian food, on the other hand, is far unhealthier than a patty in a bun. Nitish Kumar, who has made it his life's mission to go after food and drink, has clamped down on the samosa in Bihar.<br>The samosa now attracts a 13.5 per cent luxury tax, as well as sweets priced at over Rs 500 a kg. <br>But why just stop at the samosa or expensive sweets? <br>Indian food is unhealthy, whether it is the bread pakora, the bhatura, pieces of chicken, mutton or paneer floating in oil. <br>Indian sweets are too sweet.<br><br>The working class eating dhaba food is eating badly. <br>To go after only Western junk food is a selective approach that doesn't really go too far in having a healthier society. <br> RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share We need to make fundamental changes in our diet, a diet we've taken for granted for decades.<br>Similarly, instead of banning alcohol, state governments need to make beer and wine cheaper. <br>At present, hard liquor costs far less than anything else, rather than the other way round, as it is in other parts of the world. <br>You fix this illogical pricing and the health benefits will follow automatically. <br>Finally, the government has to take the issue of hygiene in local eateries more seriously. <br>As a nation we pop far too much Norflox and Zenflox OZ.<br><br>If anything, McDonald's never gave you a stomach upset. <br>The writer is the editor of 'House Spirit: Drinking in India  <br>