Let us allow The Coup to make the eulogy (speaking as JP Getti, in "Pimps [Freestylin' at the Fortune 500]") (lyrics NSFW):
making you eat top ramen
While I eat shrimp, y'all mother[BEEP]s are simps
I'm just a pimp
RIP, good sir.
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He lived to 96, even eating ramen. It mustn't be that bad for you.
Damn. Ramen got me through college. You can't go hungry when they come 5 for $1. Add in a 50 cent can of mixed veggies and you're full.
Thank you, Mr. Ando, for providing me with tasty (and damn salty) dried noodles! Your legacy will live on.
Thank you, Mr. Ando.. like CLF said, my college days would've been much worse without your delectible invention. I remember sitting in front of the TV playing Perfect Dark, eating dried bricks of Ramen. May the Flying Spaghetti Ramen Monster reward you with all the riches you deserve.
oh, and
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Oh my yes. I went through a bad scrape in college where all I could afford was Top Ramen (actually, Top Ramen was a bit more expensive than the other kind, which I called Bottom Ramen) and brussels sprouts (it was harvest time in Santa Cruz and the farmers were giving'em away). Fortunately I had already paid for my fishing license, or I would have had some odd dietary deficiencies. But still, thanks for the memories and the MSG, Ando-san.
Holy cow, that's freaky... just this morning I started wondering about Ramen noodles, so I was reading about them on Wikipedia. Man, that stuff got me through some night shifts back in my day.
Next time you read up on something on Wikipedia, rpm, let us know, so we can place bets.
Aww, if only I'd known, I'd have had ramen instead of soba noodles for lunch!
As with everyone else, instant ramen noodles got me through college. I used to make the soup in my electric percolator, along with rice. I eventually killed it that way.
I'm wondering if anyone else did this in college: Take an ordinary electrical cord with two-pronged plug. Cut the cord. Solder each of the two wires to two different forks. Stick the forks in either end of a hot dog, using the hot dog as a resistor. Plug in the cord.
20 seconds (or less) later: Macro-wave cooked hot dog.
(possibilty of electrocution: high)
I always understood ramen to mean noodles + broth + slices of beef, but it seems to be a term for instant noodles?
Anyway, thank you Mr Ando for many very fast and somewhat savoury meals.
Ummm... RTD. That's pretty ingenious sick. And no, GOD NO, would I ever consider doing that.
I'm wondering if anyone else did this in college
I totally did that on a dare.
Not because I was that hungry.
But close...
Tasted awful.
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RTD, is your real name something that rhymes with McSpyver? If you could've somehow rigged up your hot dog cooker to a potato battery, you could've had a real square meal!
Yep, ramen and store-brand hot dogs will always be to me the taste of the weeks the child support check didn't come. RIP to one of humanity's great benefactors.
Roryk, "ramen" is just one kind of Japanese noodle, not necessarily instant. In fact, this guy is the one who invented the instant ramen. There's also soba noodles, somen noodles, udon noodles, etc. The kinds of soup you make with them have their own different names from there.
thanks, i need to read up on my noodles.
I tip my hat and say amen
To this great man who made ramen.
He gave his life for the instant noodle
So that meals at mom's taste much goodle.
kittenhead is right - although lots of people say "instant ramen" here to differentiate between er instant ramen and the ramen you get in restaurants or buy fresh.
gomichild has never been fond of the instant stuff herself
The only time I have been to Japan was a week in wintry Sapporo, where (apparently) the term "ramen" was first coined. (The noodles had apparently been referred to as "willow noodles" before.)
Pretty damn tasty, the ramen.
I was hoping Times Square might resurrect the Cup Noodle steaming sign as a fitting tribute...
Ditto all of those "getting through college on ramen" stories (however I preferred the Thai or Korean variety, bought by the case).
Nissin brand ramen nourished me for two years from 1980 - 1982 while my single mother struggled to raise three children while on welfare and working full-time... and for some reason it always seemed like a good meal.
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Fry up a little egg and bits of pork and throw it in there.
Yummers.
Ramen sanwiches are the dog's bollocks.
*suddenly discards sandwich*
lol.
Dunno, man. Dogs really like licking down there, so it must be delicious.
If only there were a dog around here we could ask...
Droll. Quite droll.
Please don't feed the drolls.
Give then ramen.
I do remember as well the college ramen experience, or the life as an immigrant with nothing in the pocket. Ramen were amazing at two am, with everything that would fall in the cooking pot: meat, veggies, some tuna. Water.
There's actually a graphic novel about his invention: Nissin Cup Noodles. I haven't read it myself, but I hear it's a surprisingly engrossing read.
Always assumed noodles had been around forever. I didn't and still don't think they were a recent invention.
Is he going to be buried alongside a little foil packet?
>>Always assumed noodles had been around forever.
Ah- but cheap, mass-produceable, barely-nutritive noodlebricks(tm) did not appear until the late 20th century.
My next band is SOOOO The Noodlebricks.
BTW, quick Ramen-cooking quiz. When you ate/eat Ramen noodles, did you:
a) go according to the instructions, adding seasoning packet to broth and de-brickified noodles
OR
b) cook the noodlebrick, drain the water, and THEN add the seasoning packet?
Cuz I did the latter. I preferred them as noodle-dish to soup. Plus, the msg came through stronger that way.
Mmmmh. MSG.
c) eat the noodlebrick unboiled, like a great crunchy biscuit.
Wow. Didn't that leave you feeling...bloated, goetter?
*slaps head for all those lost minutes waiting for water to boil*
SpaghettiRamen Monster reward you with all the riches you deserve. oh, and .ingenioussick. And no, GOD NO, would I ever consider doing that.