How Often Do U Eat Top Ramen/Cup of Noodles?

**barbaro** · 25-01-2009, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

What's available in the instant noodle world within Asian cultures and what passes {and is generally available} for instant noodles in the West are two different creatures.

I agree, but I can't define it.

Also, I see people eat the cup of noodles (the bigger bowls) for dinner. Literally dinner.

As a meal.

**English Noodles** · 25-01-2009, 05:03 PM

**EmperorTud** · 26-01-2009, 12:28 AM

^ Pot Noodles are the best I've tasted anywhere in the World.

**Ghandi** · 26-01-2009, 01:25 AM

I opt for the Cup of Jok over the noodles

**barbaro** · 26-01-2009, 03:48 AM

I broke down. Boiling water right now, to fill in the cup of noodles cup.

**Crunchie** · 26-01-2009, 01:33 PM

Pot Noodles used to be the business, but they have tried to make them more 'healthy' by taking out all the shit that made them taste good.

**barbaro** · 26-01-2009, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by Crunchie

Pot Noodles used to be the business, but they have tried to make them more 'healthy' by taking out all the shit that made them taste good.

What brand does this?

I assume that these fast food noodles are loaded with MSG, too.

**Crunchie** · 26-01-2009, 03:16 PM

^ The ones pictured in English Noodles post.

**filch** · 26-01-2009, 03:17 PM

Shamelessly stolen from another forum:

NO ARTIFICIAL COLOURS OR PRESERVATIVES.
SOURCE OF FIBRE.
NOODLES IN A SPICY CURRY FLAVOUR SAUCE
WITHTEXTURISED SOYA PIECES, DRIED VEGTABLES AND A SACHET OF VERY HOT SAUCE

NUTRITION INFORMATION

Typical values as prepared per 100g
ENERGY 530/kJ/126kcal 1591kJ/378kcal
PROTEIN 3.0g 9.1g
CARBOHYDRATE 16.9g 50.6g
of which SUGARS 1.3g 3.9g
FAT 5.2g 15.6g
of which SATURATES 2.4g 7.2g
FIBRE 1.1g 3.3g
SODIUM 0.5g 1.5g

90g
*Pack makes upto 300g after preparation with water.
CONTAINS DRIED INGREDIENTS

INGREDIENTS (after preperation)

Noodles (49%) [wheat flour, vegtable oil, salt], water, vegtable in variable proportions (3.1%) [sweetcorn, peas, chives, Wheat flour, milk, maltodextrin, textured soya peices, (2.5%) Garlic, Yeast Extract, flavour Enhancer (monosodium Glutamate) Salt, Ground spices, flavourings, Onion, Oat fibre, Sugar, vegtable oil, malt extract, herb. Sachet: Hot Sauce (2%) [water, Spirit vinegar, salt, spices, starch]

there you go, the nutritional information of a pot noodle, on a par with a cardboard box. it contains a hell of a lot of salt and notice that the ingredients that are mentioned only add upto 56.6% so i wonder what the rest of the ingredients are.

**Mr Earl** · 26-01-2009, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Milkman

I know that this food is crap. It's loaded with sodium. Who know knows what else is in it.

But it's so delicious that I keep eating it, especially when I come home late at night, and even when I'm not hungry.

No wonder you're having trouble sleeping. That shit is loaded with MSG which will wack you out in all sorts of ways.
Drink a glass of hot milk instead. Flavor the milk with a cardamon seed pod.

**Takeovers** · 27-01-2009, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

That shit is loaded with MSG which will wack you out in all sorts of ways.

I do wonder where the bad name of MSG comes from. It is essential for the functioning of the human body and is made by the human body in large quantities every day.

I found that mentioned in the german wikipedia. But that fact is missing on the english wikipedia.

That so called China Restaurant Syndrome was not caused by MSG but by other components of the food containing Histamine.

MSG is an important part of Soy Sauce, Fish sauce, tomatoes and lots of other foodstuff.

**barbaro** · 27-01-2009, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by Takeovers

I do wonder where the bad name of MSG comes from. It is essential for the functioning of the human body and is made by the human body in large quantities every day

I agree. The MSG scare is waaayyy over-rated.

**Jet Gorgon** · 27-01-2009, 02:50 AM

^ Sorry, MSG is the only thing to give me 2am wake-up monstrous headaches. If it's something else, let me know. Packaged MSG is way different from the natural form.

**barbaro** · 27-01-2009, 02:54 AM

^ It's b/c you are allergic.

Not everyone is.

**EmperorTud** · 27-01-2009, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

That shit is loaded with MSG which will wack you out in all sorts of ways.

So is 99% of Thai cooking including salads.

**passengers** · 27-01-2009, 04:27 AM

^Are you sure?

**Jet Gorgon** · 27-01-2009, 04:34 AM

^And Jpn and Chinese. If the food is loaded with Ajinomoto's lovely salt alternative, I can often smell it. Then, I don't eat.

**passengers** · 27-01-2009, 04:42 AM

^Well, it sounds awful to me. Must be tricky working off that kind of stuff at Boot Camp.

**Jet Gorgon** · 27-01-2009, 04:46 AM

^ Sounding like a broken boomerang there, newbie.

**passengers** · 27-01-2009, 05:23 AM

^So, I am over 8000 posts behind you. Is that some sort of TD crime?

**barbaro** · 27-01-2009, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by passengers

^So, I am over 8000 posts behind you. Is that some sort of TD crime?

Welcome to the board Passengers.

I'm wondering what your previous nik on here, was?

Oh yeah, and vote in the poll.

**Takeovers** · 27-01-2009, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Milkman

^ It's b/c you are allergic. Not everyone is.

I don't think one can be allergic to a substance the own body produces in quantities far exceeding the amounts taken in with food.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Packaged MSG is way different from the natural form.

MSG is not something very complex like some vitamins. So there would not be a difference. You must be reacting to something else that you take in with the MSG. As I mentioned many food items where MSG is used comes also with Histamines which can induce allergy like symptomes even to not allergic persons.

By the way it is produced in bio reactors using bacteria or fungi and then extracted. So it is not really a chemical product.

**S Landreth** · 27-01-2009, 03:38 PM

When I get lazy and don’t want to either prepare anything for myself, eat leftovers or I am in a rush,…..a few times a year I guess. Preparing a small salad is just as easy as heating up water and waiting for the noodles to soften up and better for me. So I will usually go for a salad on lazy days/evenings.

**Takeovers** · 27-01-2009, 05:20 PM

To add something on topic:

I don't buy those cups. I don't like eating out of those plastic containers and I believe they are way overpriced here at more than one Euro.

I sometimes eat asian noodles out of those small rectangular packs with several sachets of spices. Usually I add some tomatoes and some canned Tuna. That doesn't make them quality food but it tastes nice and makes them almost a complete meal.

So I vote one time a week even if it is not really cup noodles.

**barbaro** · 27-01-2009, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Takeovers

To add something on topic:

I don't buy those cups. I don't like eating out of those plastic containers and I believe they are way overpriced here at more than one Euro.

Wow, that's expensive.

I pay about 18 cents, USD, for one cup.

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