Nostalgia is overrated. As youngsters, we often write off our elders for it and tend to forget that age will catch up with us, too. All the romanticising of old cafes, out-of-fashion organza sarees, and yesteryear hunks sounds like a whole lot of jargon. Until, we take a step back and think of the endless nights we spend talking about audio cassettes, Winamp and Limewire in a room full of millennials. Perhaps we don't realise that tagging each other on memes around '90s paraphernalia is also subconscious romanticising. It's really a classic case of to each his own.

So, recently, when someone pointed out to us a palaver between city-based foodies online, reminiscing the classic mutton sandwich, a legacy that fit characteristically into the Irani café and colonial-era club repertoire, we hurriedly said to them, "So, what's the big deal?"