does anyone like ramen noodles? i'm just curious. =DDDD I love them to death.

if you do like them, what flavor? what brand? cooked or non?

i'm being random yes, but ramen noodles rock period. =)

--The Pink Muffin of DOOM!

umm., every day!
And I don't care what flavor, but I like them in the styrofoam cup.

huzzah!! =D

Chicken flavour is my favorite. I like breaking them into bite size pieces while they are still in the bag. Then open the seasoning pouch and dump a little in the bag and shake it up. Then just eat-em raw yum. Then drink lots of hot something and your instantly full for some reason.

yup the cup is the best kind.

Red Soup

my kids love them like that
Red Soup

No seasoning, no soup, BUTTER AND GRATED CHEESE with shrimp sometimes (cheap shrimp scampi)! Yummy!

I eat them like that as well!! I also eat them cooked. but I will only eat the chicken flavor. =DDD

Ramen noodles helped me, and many others of my friends and family, survive college. Great study snack in a dorm room late at night. Nice, cheap food substance. Although I do suspect that they are made from shredded twinkies or something equally as bad for you.

Pied Piper

yes. i've been told many times that I'm preparing myself for college. but if left alone I would eat nothing but ramen noodles, pizza rolls and easy mac. Ramen. so cheap. and so good.

Ramen noodles are magic food. They stay forever on the shelf at camp surviving freezes and thaws until you arrive one day in February frozen to the core, fire up the stove, add a little more kindling, and then some dry hardwood until you can warm your tush and boil some water. First, mix hot water into the hotchoc powder in the mug, then pour some onto broken noodles and 1/2 packet of seasoning in bowl. Warms you up by the fourth trip to the woodshed and the third ? helping of noodles. Now, you are ready to go out to fish, or groom trails, ski, build a snowfamily, or play with dogs or (yawn) settle in for that long winter's nap--my that sleeping bag looks cozy!

Eaglewatcher who is not at camp and there's no snow and the grass is green and all the water is still open. Man, is this Maine? Are Ramen Noodles good for depression? (getting up to check the very baaack of the highest cupboard for the noodle stash) If the dogs are lucky, I will share. They have a special way of slurpping that is very cute.

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yes. i've been told many times that I'm preparing myself for college. but if left alone I would eat nothing but ramen noodles, pizza rolls and easy mac. Ramen. so cheap. and so good.

This makes me think of a great quote from "So I Married an Axe Murderer." A hilarious movie starring Mike Meyers of Saturday Night Live fame in dual roles as a very Scottish father and non-accented son. I highly recommend this movie if you haven't seen it, it's hilarious.

Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.

Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?

Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"

Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?

Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!

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Are Ramen Noodles good for depression?

Oh, definitely.

Terra Kacher, I had to look twice, because I was so certain that your favorite flavor of Ramen was "cricket."

ramen noodle soup is not particularly good for you.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c224h.html

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ramen noodle soup is not particularly good for you.

Speaking for myself, I never doubted that--hence my twinkie reference. But when you're a starving college student and it is the middle of the night, ramen looks pretty good.

I love them raw I love them cooked
I will eat them anytime with anyone
I will eat them Sam I am

Let hear it for Death by MSG, Gehtto soup, the ASIAN MAC N CHEESE.....so many names for a wonderfully simple dish.....ever add eggs??? YUMM

teekasue

Great. You added the big about eggs, and now I want some Pad Thai, which, while I like ramen, is EVER so much better.

but Lisa, it is a great source of Thiamine!

DEF

My kids crush them up, add the season, shake them up and call them 'ghetto chips'. Is that a bad reference? Anyway, they love them, and they can take them anywhere. When I insist they cook them, they boil the noodles, drain the water, add the season and a piece of cheese. Kinda like mac and cheese only fun. :)
-the happy gemini

We will cook them and to cool them faster and add more flavor we pour in some teriyaki sauce...YUMMY!!!! I have also had them in cole slaw (uncooked) sounds kinda gross but it really is good.



LUNA crew

my kids love them and I always have them in the house.
they like the chicken and the beef
I also use them to make broccoli slaw. (awesome recipe)
....but thats another post!
-CCL

I hate, hate, hate the smug usage of the word "ghetto" by middle class white people.

I didn't mean it like that. My neighbor called it that and it stuck. I live in a housing complex where most people here aren't white, and i consider it a priviledge to live here cuz i was extremely ignorant when i moved here 9 years ago. If you saw my hometown, you'd understand. I didn't mean to cause offense. And p.s. i didn't start calling it that, my friend told my kids and it stuck. So i'm sorry if you got offended.
-the happy gemini

The language we choose to use, reveals more about us sometimes, than what we realize.

I was a moderator on a board many years ago, and had to ask an individual to either change his user name (it had a slang label in it) or be banned. He replied that he "was one" and if he didnt mind it why should I. He wound up changing the username after a lengthy discussion on word associations and the sociology of labels.

Don't get me wrong, I believe people can say what that want to say, call theirselves what they want to call theirselves or sing what they want to sing, BUT I dont have to respect or hold anything else they say with any regard after that. And for censoring others from using offensive or potentially offensive language, it might be helpful to say "Your right to swing your arm ends at my nose" (or others' noses as the case may be). If you question your own use of the term, as mild as it may be, then that may indicate you do indeed feel it was a "bad reference".

It is one of the milder words i've seen people get offended by, but still, there are way too many noses on this website to be swinging an arm so casually.

There have been several phrases lately used on the AQ forums that are potentially offensive, yet no one else has questioned (at least in public) their use. I have several friends that go into complete meltdown if the word Nazi or Hitler is used in any other connotation that to refer to the real things. They feel anyone who uses those words in a joking manner or as a term to describe someone as being "bad" deminishes the truely horrific evil that Hitler and the Nazis were. Yes, they had grandparents that were sent to concentration camps, so to them... you can see how the word "soup nazi" would make them just cringe. We are so far removed from that generation, that it's easy to make slang usage out of a name or a group of people..... or a place.

Which brings me to another interesting fact... you may have been concerned about offending one group of people with the word ghetto, when in fact, you may want to look the word up and see exactly where the word comes from.

But, someone will be offended by anything that someone else says/types. That is human nature. The best we can do, is to try to be a little more aware and considerate and at the same time, a little more forgiving when others tread without malice on our sensitivities.

cam

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There have been several phrases lately used on the AQ forums that are potentially offensive, yet no one else has questioned (at least in public) their use. I have several friends that go into complete meltdown if the word Nazi or Hitler is used in any other connotation that to refer to the real things. They feel anyone who uses those words in a joking manner or as a term to describe someone as being "bad" deminishes the truely horrific evil that Hitler and the Nazis were. Yes, they had grandparents that were sent to concentration camps, so to them... you can see how the word "soup nazi" would make them just cringe. We are so far removed from that generation, that it's easy to make slang usage out of a name or a group of people..... or a place.

Actually, the Nazi reference is not viewed that way by everyone who has been harmed by them. My sister and I use the term "body Nazis" about people who are so concerned about fitness that they have called us names because we are fat. It seems appropriate to us because there is hatred involved, which is part of what made the Nazis so terrible. We use that term advisedly--my family, alas, is not far removed from the generation that was hurt by Hitler; our father was a Polish immigrant directly affected by Nazi hatred. The Nazis perpetrated most of their horrific acts--and much of the worst of them--on the Jewish people; but they hated many other groups as well, including slavs (that would include Poles, Czechs, etc.), gays, and those with disabilities.

I very much support your idea of being sensitive. Because of not wanting to minimize the horrors of the Nazis, we use the term "body Nazis" when speaking with those who know something of our history. Just wanted to point out that sometimes, people who feel strongly on a subject may use terms that seem odd to others, but it is because they are acknowledging their own pain, not because they are being flippant about it.

Pied Piper

Hey Pink!! We haven't seen you for a while.

I like ramen noodles. anything but chicken...and maybe pork. I usually boil them then put the noodles in a bowl and THEN put the seasoning over them.

Shiloh

does anyone like ramen noodles? i'm just curious. =DDDD I love them to death.</end quote>

My whole family loves them. The favorite flavors here are shrimp and creamy chicken. I have also used them in a chinese coleslaw(very yummy). I have the recipe if anyone wants it.

I used to have a friend that would use the noodles as bread and put peanut butter on them. Not sure if I could do that, but I do like them uncooked:)

Trish;)

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have also used them in a chinese coleslaw(very yummy). I have the recipe if anyone wants it.

I want it! I want it!

Pied Piper

"Actually, the Nazi reference is not viewed that way by everyone who has been harmed by them. My sister and I use the term "body Nazis" about people who are so concerned about fitness that they have called us names because we are fat. It seems appropriate to us because there is hatred involved, which is part of what made the Nazis so terrible. We use that term advisedly--my family, alas, is not far removed from the generation that was hurt by Hitler; our father was a Polish immigrant directly affected by Nazi hatred. The Nazis perpetrated most of their horrific acts--and much of the worst of them--on the Jewish people; but they hated many other groups as well, including slavs (that would include Poles, Czechs, etc.), gays, and those with disabilities."

My grandparents were in a concentration camp and my mother was born in a war refugee camp. Yet I call myself a "camera nazi" all the time due to my own camera habits, and do not take offense at other's usage of the term nazi, or camp, or holocaust or whatever.

In terms of the refernece to ghetto -- sometimes it is "white guilt" as I have heard it called. I grew up in the 'hood and that is what I call it. the 'hood. My mother still lives there. That is home to me. It's the ghetto. I am ghetto-fabulous. When I say "playa please!" to my African American friends and acquaintances, they laugh, they don't take offense. But I have had middle class suburban white people who have never seen the 'hood in their lives get all offended. Supposedly because I am insensitive or ignorant? Playa, please, you don't know me!

I appreciate the intent behind the original post was to say "gee maybe we should be careful to not hurt peoples' feelings." In general, I agree. But if someone cries to me "don't say nazi, my grandparents were in a camp!" I am gonna say, "yes so were mine. nazi, nazi, nazi." We won the war and now I live here, I am educated, middle class and have the ability and knowledge to post on an internet message board. Who won that? Me.

Anyway that is how I feel about it. YMMV.

Thank you Freelance.

I'm from Arkansas. Sometime back...the '30's maybe? there was a radion show with Bob Burns. He portrayed the people of Ar as a bunch of backwoods inbred illiterate hicks. To this day the whole world still thinks of us this way. It doesn't bother me when people joke about it...I do that myself but when it's used an insult I take it that way.

Shiloh