Queen of Chiba 0 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Anyone here actually like Pot Noodles and care to say why? Blinkin' awful the whole lot of them - that I have tried - if you ask me. So, are any of them any good? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 fast and simple food I guess. love shin noodles. add an egg to it, and some chopped leek too. Also the harusame noodle - think kimchi style - are pretty tasty too and helped me lose weight last year. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Drunk and 'nothing in the fridge' food. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Cup Noodle, curry seafood flavour and crab in miso flavour. Only have them when I have zero time to eat and I want to stink out the office. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Yuck, is all I can say! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 if you were hungry and the chemical haze came your way, I'd be you'd take a bite. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 They are grim, but I have been known to eat a few. Luckily got some great ramen shops within 5 minutes walk of my house. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Japanese people love these though. my mrs thinks they are a viable lunch option!! I try and tell her that Pot Noodles back home are for smelly students and nerdy geeks who still live with their mum!! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Just attempted an instant cup of cream of tomato pasta. It was the most disgusting I have ever come across. Threw it away. What a waste of 3 minutes of waiting hungrily. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Get some toast on. On the flights when they get the Pot Noodles going, I hate that smell. When people ask whats the food like in Japan, you mention noodles and they come back saying yeah I really like pot noodles. I don't mention noodles nowwhen people ask! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Aren't they a better quality here TB? (Wouldn't know but I can't imagine Japanese raving over pot noodles!) Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 no, there still the same shite Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 When I was in the UK, I used to like this one with added ketchup from the bottle. This pic of course is the new nancified reduced salt, reduced fat, reduced E numbers, reduced goo version. YUCK. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 This one is the curry seafood flavour from Nissin. What more can you want? curry and seafood. Two ingredients that should be as far away on the flavour spectrum as possible, yet brought to you by just adding boiling water. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 This from 2007: Quote: The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack. Mr Ando was born in Taiwan in 1910 and moved to Japan in 1933, founding Nissin Food Products Co after World War II to provide cheap food for the masses. His most famous product, Cup Noodle, was released in 1971. Its taste and ease of preparation - adding hot water to dried noodles in a waterproof polystyrene container - have made it popular around the world. Mr Ando said the inspiration for his product came when he saw people lining up to buy bowls of hot ramen noodle soup at a black market stall during the food shortages after World War II. Noodles in space He developed his first instant noodles, Chicken Ramen, in 1958. The product came out as Japan recovered from the ravages of World War II and began a long period of economic expansion. It was the masterstroke of providing a waterproof polystyrene container for the noodles that made his Cup Noodle an instant success in 1971. Nissin has led the global instant noodle industry since then, selling 85.7 billion servings every year, according to Agence France Presse. His firm also developed a version of Cup Noodle for Japanese astronauts to eat on the space shuttle Discovery in 2005. In 1999, Mr Ando opened a museum in Osaka devoted to instant noodles. He retired as Nissin's chairman in 2005. Japanese newspapers and business people have been paying tribute to Mr Ando. "He was a self-made man who developed an epoch-making instant noodle product and spread it to all corners of the world," Akio Nomura, chairman of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told Kyodo news agency. Mr Ando remained active until just days before his death, giving a New Year's speech to Nissin employees and having a lunch of Chicken Ramen with company executives. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 You are so **** right about that! Love the kimchi harusame!! Hate everything else Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Nice glasses! I don't mind them when I'm drunk. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 I heatr they seve them in Peasant Class on the flights. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 thursday, how long were you in the UK for? Was that for study or shigoto? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 oooo. Too long. School and then Uni. Too many bad habits. Like pot Noodles. Link to post Share on other sites
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