me: “Wow. You’re really heavy on the sodium, aren’t you?”
ramen: “You’re right, I’m sorry. Should I give you back your fucking dime, Mr. Rockefeller?”
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I find that if you add barbecue sauce to ramen, and very slightly undercook it, that it almost tastes like chicken. Try it, let me know how it goes.
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If you ever need salt for a burger or a steak, just smack that wimpy little raw package of ramen with a meat mallet and sprinkle the remains on your real food.
Heh. I remember those. I lived on them freshman and sophomore year.
Only way to eat for $10/week and still have beer money left over.
You can make a pretty yummy salad with one of those ramen packs.
Screw the ramen. Order out. Hot and sour soup, extra hot, will cure what ails you.
Trader Joe’s makes a pretty decent frozen orange chicken, all you have to do is dump it in a hot skillet with some oil and stir it about for approximately 9 minutes.
Once done you can serve it over a bed of the ramen noodles, with or without the seasoning, and it makes a pretty good quick and cheap meal.
(And that completes my community service)
Is this the recipe page?
Here’s mine: Quick And Dirty Tom Yam Gong.
Someday maybe I’ll be able to afford Little Juan Burritos or Totino’s Party Pizzas. Someday.
Great, a 19th Century reference. That should cement your conservative bona fides.
Heh. Spamword, “company,” as in Standard Oil.
Unrelated amusement:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Can’t you just hear the collective “Awwwwwwwwwwwww….”?
Ramen, *snort!*
Nothing sillier than junk food with a bad conscience. Order some triple-bacon pepperoni pizzas with pepperjack cheese, and get yer innards greased properly.
Turing = matter, as in Oh, wait; I guess the Jewish thing may matter, here…
Curiouser and curiouser foodstuffs…
tw: Left. Overs.
I assume that’s an Awwwwwwwwww of disappointment, rather than of cuteness…?
But yes, the libs must be getting very frustrated at GWB’s failure to spontaneously combust under the deathray of their hatred for him.
Oh, for crying out loud. Do I have to tell you everything?
The correct way to eat ramen:
1) skip the gringo brands; get whatever they have in the Asian food section;
2) get “regular” or “original” flavored; chicken and beef are icky;
3) make the ramen according to package directions, and then add:
a) a few drops of sesame oil;
b) a little quasi-Korean chili-garlic paste (not the sweet stuff–the savory type from the little jar);
c) a little cut-up green onion, if you have it.
Some fermented black beans and rice wine (no salt) will also do wonders. My Vietnamese neighbor, though, used to make his with sliced hot dog. Me, my favorite additive is chargrilled chicken and Green Giant frozen shoepeg corn. I egest you not.
As the years roll by, I have bigger and bigger problems with the salt added to processed food. I keep wondering if they really have to add that much salt.
If they want to keep getting kickbacks from the beer companies, yes. And you wondered why ramen was only a dime?
Sodium? So what am I, chopped liver?
You brute!
uh, yeah, Attila Girl, I don’t think it’s about “correctness”. at least for me, it’s about very cheap, quick and, well, i like fake chicken flavoring. mmmmmmmm. salty.
TallDave,
Ramen got me through college, too. Must be the universal starving student food.
Can’t even look at the stuff now.
Please tell me that’s a wiener and not…Fido.
You have to love the fact that humanity’s favorite seasoning is partially composed of deadly poison.
Because if you don’t love the fact, you’ll be hunted down like a dog and brutally killed.
OH, shut up the whole lot of you! I can’t get cheap ramen here. Seriously, it’s 1.20 euro a pack!!!! But its still in the international aisle near the tortillas, peanut butter, and pancake syrup.
They did have an “Asian Festival” last month at Auchan (think French Super Wal-Mart), and we got some off brand stuff in packs of 10 for 5.00 euro; it will sustain us for awhile.
Say what you will about ramen only for cheap students, if its not for substanance, but as a good quick hot lunch, I can handle it. I especially reccomend a good healthy dose of hot pepper oil mixed in just before eating.
Nonetheless, I miss buying them by the case.
TW: I will not surrender until I have eaten my last pack of ramen.
Robert,
Which part do you find non-poisonous, the sodium or the chlorine?
What I like is correct. What I dislike is incorrect.
What’s so difficult, here?
I dream of opening a real ramen restaurant when I return to the US. Of course, I don’t know how to make the real stuff, so I’ll have to hire someone who could actually probably open his own restaurant without me. But trust me, if I do open a ramen restaurant, you are *all* invited, I’ll give you a free meal, and it will be sooooo good.
MJH –
D’oh! I didn’t know sodium was poisonous.
Hi again…
Just found you via a post about the whole “Buford T.” thing…
(Buford Pusser is “Hayes”, “Buford T.” is Buford T. Justice, Jackie Gleason’s character from Smokey & the Bandit… just in case you don’t get the other comment. The post was nearly two years old.)
Just wanted to letcha know I blogrolled you…
And, I have ramen in my pantry… *grin*
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Jaysus!!
I had to power crunch 5 Altoids after reading all this about ramen. I can only imagine what your collective Mentos bill is.
If there’s ever a vote for “Blog with the Worst Breath”, I think this one might finally break through.
–“It’s the fresh maker.”
Ramen: So, you gonna hook me up with some of that flavoring?
Me: No, it’ll make you too salty.
Ramen: Aw, c’mon. At least let me see the packet.
Me: Alright, but just a quick glance.
Ramen:
Me: No! Don’t stare, dammit!
Ramen: What? Don’t be such a wuss!
Me: Ugh! Too salty!
Ramen: Heh.
TW: I think, therefore I spam.
I remember Top Ramen. I don’t even want to imagine bottom ramen.
Well, on that occasion I actually witnessed it coming out of a freshly-opened packet. Although…our schnauzer went mysteriously missing somewhere around then.
Awful mouthy for a pack of cheap noodles, isn’t it?
Ramen makes my Tag Heuer tight.
T/W fist
My fingers are so swollen, I can’t make a fist.
You know how in German there are long compound words and all? When my husband and I were first married, we inexplicably decided that having a teenage exchange student would be a good idea. We got a sixteen-year-old kid from former East Germany who, being a growing boy, would come home from high school and make himself a giant hamburger as a snack. When we discovered our stockpile of frozen burger patties dwindling and our grocery bill skyrocketing, we pointed him to the Top Ramen and said, “Here, you can have as much of THIS as you want. It only costs a quarter a package.” He dubbed it “quartersoup,” and so it remains in our house, thirteen years later.
It’s true! Like, if you jumpin the ocean and try to drink it all, it will bloody well kill you!
It’s a shame that Ramen stuff has so much salt. It tastes great.
Personally I can’t eat the stuff without taking a double-dose of my BP medication.
What’s worse? Soy sauce. That stuff is a great condiment; works on a lot of things, not just chink food.
But the salt content! 2.453 X 10 to 23 power MGs of sodium.
Wait a second… since when can soup talk?
The first time I ever smoked week my friend ate three packs of Maruchan ramen and got mudbutt and missed out on going to see Mrs. Doubtfire all high and shit.
What? No mention of Mac and Cheese? That was the food that kept me going in school. That and Gin……
Todd,
Gin, my staple food in graduate school…
Ramen is usually haraam for Jaujau. What I do is this. Go to the Asian store and buy Kikkoman’s bottle of cold noodle sauce, and add the udon noodles you can buy in the refridgerated section, sprinkle fried onions, and mushrooms and sesame oil. It is even better with the prepackaged unagi on top, or a hard cooked egg and seaweed.
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