It's Ramen time

[Steve Bildermann]

Ramen noodles - the essential foodstuff

Some folks might already be asking "Why the hell should I eat ramen noodles? I'm not poor. My meal plan is sufficient. I don't need that cheap garbage." There are a couple of reasons for wanting, nay, needing this information.

1. Convenience
Sure you can go down to the dining hall and have a meal there, but that might interrupt your study groove. The dining hall might be closed. Everything could be closed. It could be the apocalypse. Ramen noodles allow you to stay in your room and not leave for days on end without as much as stepping out the door (except for the occasional pit stop). You could order pizza but that's expensive, and you have to deal with other people. Until pizza delivery men are replaced with highly sophisticated pizza delivery robots that can get you your pie in 5 minutes or less, you are going to have this problem.



2. Cheapitude
You are a poor college student, right? I don't have a trust fund, and you sure as hell don't have one either, so quit whining and get used to being poor. While you might have heard stories that college students are so in debt that they have to sell their kidneys to purchase the noodles, those are urban myths. Illegal, black-market kidney sales are usually reserved for the purchases of term papers.



3. Preparation for the Future
Everyone knows that evey poor college student one day goes off to become a poor twentysomething. During this time, there are no meal plans or dining halls and you are forced into the wild where death could be waiting for you at any turn. And you have to purchase your own food. Ramen noodles are always a good choice. The sooner you learn how to prepare them and like them, the better off we'll all be. And after the apocalypse, when all that's left is cockroaches and telemarketers, guess what the cockroaches will eat? That's right, the only other thing that will survive the nuclear holocaust. And if you are lucky to survive, ramen is the ony thing you and your gang of post-apocalyptic biker thugs will be able to find.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkinnavy/ramen.html



How much is inside Ramen noodles?

Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum

Forum help on Ramen

[Dynamic Jointmeister]

Enjoy Ramen with ShamPoo!

[kidrock12xp]

gotta love the sonic characters endorsing ramen lol

[Failsafe]

http://mattfischer.com/ramen/recipe.html

Title: White Trash Ramen Sandwich
Submitted By: Alexia Petrakos
Submitted From: Wagner College, Staten Is, NY
Ingredients: 1 pkg of Ramen, any flavor
White Bread
Recipe Text: Slightly under cook your ramen so that it's still kind of rubbery. Drain ALL of the water out. Add flavor package. Scoop onto bread and eat. (This can be made with 2 slices of bread for sandwich style or 1 slice for open faced).

Title: MSG Cereal
Submitted By: Andrew Chin
Submitted From: Macalester College
Recipe Text: Take the ramen, and crush it to bits while it is still in the bag. Dump the crushed ramen into a bowl and add the flavor packet. Next, add COLD water to the mix and eat quickly, so that the ramen are still crunchy. remember to enjoy every bite.
Note: Ramenmaster's Note: He swears its good, just like cold pizza, but I am not sure.

[GuyJean]

A friend in the US told me about kids at his school that munch on the hard, uncooked noodle bricks, eating them like snack chips.

I've seen them in some conbinis here; 1 inch cubes of seasoned, uncooked ramen noodles.. Didn't catch the name..

GJ

[GuyJean]

Where's the bukkake, baby?

GJ

[gkanai]

There is also Babystar Ramen, which is cooked but then dried and flavored...

http://www3.alpha-net.ne.jp/users/ebitani/babystar.html

[Failsafe]

A friend in the US told me about kids at his school that munch on the hard, uncooked noodle bricks, eating them like snack chips.

I've seen them in some conbinis here]

Sounds a lot more tastey than spam ramen

[Taro Toporific]

A friend in the US told me about kids at his school that munch on the hard, uncooked noodle bricks, eating them like snack chips.

There is also Babystar Ramen, which is cooked but then dried and flavored...
http://www3.alpha-net.ne.jp/users/ebitani/babystar.html

Man, I chomp down "Baby Ramen" like Gozilla and Cookie Monster after a night on the Beer Bong.
Mo' betta than hot cup-o-pizza ramen or UFO.

[Blah Pete]

Back in the college days (early 80's) I used to buy Top Ramen for 8 cents a pack. They consisted of the basic hard noodles and a pack of dry seasoning with a lot of salt and probalby MSG. Since I never had much money I ate ramen 3-4 times a week. Not too bad if you through in some veggies and some kind of real meat.

The best use of Top Ramen was to munch on the hard noodles while drinking beer. The noodles tend to break and create a mess but who worries about meeses when they are in college and drunk.[/b]