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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

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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