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Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by Dalewyn »

Cup Noodles (and more generally instant noodles) is easily one of the most important inventions ever.

It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious.

I know of no other food that checks all these boxes and then some.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by astrange »

bobthepanda wrote: post #9
thehoff wrote: post #5

The Cup of Noodles museum in Yokohama was well worth it (get there early if plan to go though, can get very busy).

Eh, I had the opposite experience. It’s definitely very geared towards elementary school age children.

There were a lot of families there, but we did enjoy it as adults. Obviously no need to go a second time.

My favorite part is that near the end, there's an American newspaper article on the wall that says Ando was once imprisoned for tax evasion before inventing instant noodles. This is mentioned exactly nowhere else in the museum.

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Post by grogenaut »

Dalewyn wrote: post #12

Cup Noodles (and more generally instant noodles) is easily one of the most important inventions ever. It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious. I know of no other food that checks all these boxes and then some.

Cheese, Hard Tack, Jerkey, Pickles, Kimche, Beer, Salt Pork, Rum, Instant Soup, Pemican, Wine, Dried Beans, Honey, Grain, Potatoes, Tons of Canned foods lets say peaches, regular pasta, Nut butter... yeah I can think of a ton of them, and everything I listed is much more nutritious than instant noodles which basically has carbs, salt, potassium lots of fat, some protein.

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Post by genocidicbunny »

Dalewyn wrote: post #12

Cup Noodles (and more generally instant noodles) is easily one of the most important inventions ever. It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious. I know of no other food that checks all these boxes and then some.

> It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious.

To add a kind of oddball one, fried instant noodles are a great item to have a few of when camping -- not because you can eat them, but because in a pinch the noodles are pretty good firestarters, especially when you're having a hard time finding small pieces of dry wood. And you can use the seasoning packets as a source of at least some electrolytes in a pinch.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by aaron695 »

> Space Ram journeyed into space in July 2005

Nissin's Yakisoba U.F.O. (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=UFO+Nissin one of my favorites) have since have been certified for space.

Not clear if Soichi Noguchi took it with him on his recent 2020 mission - https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/life/food-in-space/japane...

You can't buy them :( Instructions on how they are made - https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30167/how-was-spac...

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Post by nox101 »

thehoff wrote: post #5

The Cup of Noodles museum in Yokohama was well worth it (get there early if plan to go though, can get very busy).

My favorite part was the video that said Cup Noodles was invented when they tried to bring noodles to the USA and people in the USA didn't know what "cup" was. "丼？なにそれ？" in a super thick USA accent (lol). And thus they added the "cup" and "Cup Noodles was born"

Note: Whether or not it's a true story, it was the movie playing at the cup noodle museum in Yokohama

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