Raman Noodles...

...Beef or Chicken?

This is possibly the one subject in life that I am absolutely neutral on.

Discuss.

Spicy chicken flavor. Prefer the Nong Shim variety myself. Nice and hot.

aircooled wrote:

DANG! That's BAD

Salt flavored ^

Chicken for me.

But I'm not gonna go and get all worked up if someone else prefers beef.

The nutritional info looks like that of heavily salted lard.

chicken for me but i only use about half a packet of the seasoning with two bags of noodles...i'm on a diet.

I don't use the spices at all, so it doesn't matter. The noodles are bad enough for you as it is!

Beef. All day, every day. But really, they suck.

I prefer the "more real" variants that come with noodles that are already soft. Way better.

Pork.

I prefer the "roast beef" Maruchan to the "beef", but both are fine.

The chicken, inexplicably, leaves me feeling like my mouth's all slickery-fatty. Just me, I guess.

I tend not to drink the broth. Just eating the noodles is hardly health food, but I think that probably cuts things down a bit. If I have broccoli or mushrooms around, I'll toss those in for the boil as well...

I am haunted by a bowl of real ramen I had in Akihabara in Tokyo a couple of years ago. It was wonderful.

How can you get that much fat in noodles?

Conversation with a young and silly co-worker a few years back.

Jeff: "Guess what! I have eaten nothing but ramen noodles for months and now I'm rich!

Me: "Seriously?"

Jeff: "Yeah! I've got a thousand dollars in the bank. I only eat like 4 packets a day and that's only a like a dollar or something"

Me: "But......how do you feel? You don't look so hot man"

Jeff: "I pass out sometimes.......I get lots of stomach cramps too."

He paused, tore open a seasoning packet, sprinkled it on the dry uncooked noodle cake in his hand and took a cruchy bite, smiled and said something about buying a new guitar.

About an hour later the medexpress ambulance was out front of the plant loading him up after he passed out and someone saw him. He spent 4 days in the hospital and when he returned to work he always had a huge lunch packed with him.

spitfirebill wrote: How can you get that much fat in noodles?

By making them extra-tasty.

In reply to ditchdigger:

He probably should have added a multivitamin.

Otto Maddox wrote: In reply to ditchdigger: He probably should have added a multivitamin.

And meat. And vegetables. And fruit. And whole-grain bread. And milk.

Chicken for me. I prefer the Nissin cups. Just add water and nuke them.

Chicken or Beef, though with a type 1 diabetic in the house it's not a staple.

What you guys talking about? That's 300 calories for like six for a dollar or something. On a calories per dollar basis, you just can't beat it. And the MSG induced migraine is just bonus.

I like then with an egg and a slice of cheese. Only a bit of the spice (salt) packet. Ummm

Throw the seasoning packet away. Add a bit of butter and a bit of sour cream.

It's a lot like our cars- make your own recipe!!

After having a real bowl of ramen at few different places, I dont care for the packets. I will eat one in desperation, but it's not a common thing.

Oh and for the record, chicken.

If we are talking the run-of-the-mill variety, then beef.

You guys realize the noodles are deep fryed before they are dried, right? That is how you get that much goodness into a dry noodle brick.

I prefer some of the fancier varieties, but it is hard to beat the cheap stuff at times.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I will eat one in desperation, but it's not a common thing.

That's the only reason that anyone has ever eaten them.