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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Ramen noodles
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:10:58 -0400

James, I can't top that!

B

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

It is a very cheap, single serving(despite what the package says),
convenient source of pasta. You don't have to use the seasoning packet.

Calling the instant ramen noodles of cheap cuisine fare 'pasta' is like calling spam just another cut of meat. It is like putting instant tea in the same category as estate Darjeeling.
There is such a thing as real ramen noodles. They are made of wheat or buckwheat flour, eggs, and are moistend with a special type of mineral water (called 'kansui') so that carbon dioxide is driven off when they are cooked and they fluff up.

What you are eating in the cheapie packages is no such thing. It is industrial waste and slag starch that is partially gelatinized and pressed through dies to give something that limps instantly in water and sort of vaguely resembles pasta so long as you aren't looking too closely. Chemially they are the same thing as those packing peanuts.

It's not a convenient source of pasta, it's a convenient source of gelatainized industrial starch waste products. And it tastes like it too.

Bon apetite!


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