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Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by gaadd33 »

grogenaut wrote: post #14
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.

Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by SatvikBeri »

nox101 wrote: post #20
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

"What are chopsticks? What are bowls?" was in the subtitles I saw. I'm guessing it was a translation error, but the idea that Momofuku Ando introduced bowls to the US was pretty amusing.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by hombre_fatal »

grogenaut wrote: post #14
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.

How many of those do better than a package of instant ramen noodles on a nutrient tracker like Cronometer? One pack gives you 20% of the day’s nutrients. You think pickles, honey, beer, and wine come close to that? You need to recalibrate your intuitions: cronometer.com

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

#25

Post by sdrothrock »

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).

The best part of the museum is the chicken ramen factory, which you need to make a reservation for in advance. It is NOT the cup noodle factory.

Cup noodle factory: no reservations, draw on your cup, specify what toppings to put in

Chicken ramen factory: make ramen noodles from SCRATCH, send them off to be fried in front of you, draw the packaging

It's really worth the price of admission (1000 yen, maybe $6 USD) for the experience of making ramen noodles from scratch

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by inhumantsar »

gaadd33 wrote: post #21
grogenaut wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.

unless you're eating a jar of nut butter in one sitting, I'm pretty sure it's going to be cheaper by far on a per serving basis.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

#27

Post by grogenaut »

gaadd33 wrote: post #21
grogenaut wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.

I wasn't really going on price. Also note that you're at 48% daily sodium for 1 thing of nissan instant noodles which is 290 calories (1/6th daily intake of 1800) and 20% of nutritional value. I can get my own cider down to about $0.28/12 oz bottle. My point was more that there are many storable foods and have been for a long time that provide nutrition and variation. And other than the salt pork aren't loaded with salt.

As spike said "man cannot live on carbohydrates alone" :)

Also I personally feel like shit after eating cup o noodles even if they are good tasty and cheap.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

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Post by grogenaut »

inhumantsar wrote: post #26
gaadd33 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.

unless you're eating a jar of nut butter in one sitting, I'm pretty sure it's going to be cheaper by far on a per serving basis.

I'm not personally going for the cheapest most shelf stable food every as the core of my diet.

Also nut butter does looks similar on micro nutrients, about an oz is very similar to a cup of noodles. maybe not as filling. I don't find cup o noodles all that filling though.

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

#29

Post by nogajun »

It is a lie that Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen. The history of instant ramen as presented by Nissin must be questioned.

In Taiwan, there was Ke-shi-men (雞絲麵), in which the noodles were fried in oil and then returned to hot water.

Before the introduction of Chicken Ramen, Choju-men (長寿麺) was introduced by Cho Kokubun (張國文) and was widely known.

Momofuku Ando is a businessman who exploits these things, crushes his opponents with lawsuits, and simply advertises that he invented them.

Reference:

東明商行の張国文と「長寿麺」の立志伝: https://nobunaga-oda.com/tyou-kokubun/

NHK『まんぷく』チキンラーメンは本当に「発明」なのか | ハフポスト PROJECT: https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/nhkmanpukuchikinramenwah...

『まんぷく』安藤百福の即席麺「発明は嘘」と異論噴出 | Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌]: https://smart-flash.jp/lifemoney/63928/1/1/

Re: Our Founder – Momofuku Ando

#30

Post by SargeDebian »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #24
grogenaut wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How many of those do better than a package of instant ramen noodles on a nutrient tracker like Cronometer? One pack gives you 20% of the day’s nutrients. You think pickles, honey, beer, and wine come close to that? You need to recalibrate your intuitions: cronometer.com

I don't want to sign up to the product you're advertising, but without doing that I can say that while some packets of ramen may give you 20% of your required daily calory intake, there are more required nutrients than calories. Probably none of the other listed foods can give you everything on their own.
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