Dealbal Food Product Industry

Down here at 6/49 Lourd Avenue in Karamadai, things usually smell like whatever we are processing that day. Pungampalayam is a quiet enough area but the Dealbal Food Product Industry stays quite active from Monday to Saturday. We aren't some giant factory with robots. It’s mostly just us using our hands and a few machines that have been around for a while. You get used to the hum of the motors after a few minutes. We spend a lot of time checking the quality of the ingredients coming in. If the grain or the produce isn't right, the whole day feels wasted. We work out of this space because it’s close to where we live. The floor stays clean because we have to be careful with food, but the outside of the building looks like any other house on the avenue. Sometimes the neighbors pop their heads in to see what’s going on. We have a small table where we take our tea breaks and that’s where the real decisions get made, usually over a steaming cup and some biscuits. It’s a lot of repetitive work, packing things into bags and sealing them up properly. My fingers get sore from the plastic edges sometimes. We don't spend money on fancy signs or anything like that. We just focus on making sure the boxes are ready for the morning pickup. It’s just honest work in a small corner of Karamadai.