Pot Noodles - tobacco for youngsters

CherryAA · May 25, 2018

Following my trip to Japan I just posted a blog about pot noodles - please read and see if you can encourage your friends to destock instant pot noodles !

Guzzler · May 25, 2018

In my opinion the only things that will survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches, some grasses and Ramen noodles.

Deleted member 308541 · May 25, 2018

Guzzler said:
In my opinion the only things that will survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches, some grasses and Ramen noodles.

They reckon that rabbits and drop bears will out live us as well here in Australia.

I used to like noodles, they made a quick meal at work.

DavidGrahamJones · May 26, 2018

CherryAA said:
see if you can encourage your friends to destock instant pot noodles !

Us over 65s destocked our noodle supplies many years ago LOL. I was trying to work out why my group of friends have never gone near them (to my knowledge) and I think it's something to do with several friends, being chemists, working for the same company that used to be called PPP that made the flavourings for companies like Batchelors.

hankjam · May 26, 2018

I shock the young things at work when I tell them.... "I've never had a pot noodle"!.

hankjam · May 26, 2018

Tipetoo said:
They reckon that rabbits and drop bears will out live us as well here in Australia.

I used to like noodles, they made a quick meal at work.

Re: Rabbits.
UK population is not in good health. We used to have bundles outside my place of work and now I hardly ever see them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease

Deleted member 308541 · May 26, 2018

hankjam said:
Re: Rabbits.
UK population is not in good health. We used to have bundles outside my place of work and now I hardly ever see them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease

The rabbit calicivirus was released here years ago deliberately. It was being control tested in a particular area, but was released elsewhere.

It put the skids into the feral rabbit population here, more so than mixo.

Mr_Pot · May 26, 2018

As we are already off topic, here is something that might interest @Tipetoo
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Homebase sold for £1 as DIY disaster ends for Wesfarmers - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44248409

Deleted member 308541 · May 26, 2018

Mr_Pot said:
As we are already off topic, here is something that might interest @Tipetoo
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Homebase sold for £1 as DIY disaster ends for Wesfarmers - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44248409

It was on our new this week as well.

We have a big Bunning's store here in Bundaberg that you can get lost in.

phdiabetic · May 27, 2018

I used to love 2 min noodles (before being diabetic)! But their nutrition info is enough to put anyone off.

Deleted member 308541 · May 27, 2018

phdiabetic said:
I used to love 2 min noodles (before being diabetic)! But their nutrition info is enough to put anyone off.

We used get Suimin noodles, but stopped buying them after a health warning recall of the product in the 1980's.

AloeSvea · May 27, 2018

Yes, in the 2000s sooooo many young people I knew subsisted on pot noodles (my own kids included - cringe! argh! bang head!) (I knew not what I did when I bought them in bulk for the pantry). Since my diagnosis my daughter keeps them to a bare minimum, but hard to cut them out completely. (Unless one's health has been/was rooted of course! With toxic food like pot noodles!)

CherryAA · May 28, 2018

Contralto said:
Dear Cherry,

Really interested in your trip to Japan but did not see your post on pot noodles. If you are talking about those dried instant things with a lot of artificial flavorings including MSG (headaches and sodium!), high carbs and other nasty stuff, I gave them up long ago.

I do, however, succumb to the rare treat of Japanese dried buckwheat noodles, and the rare bean threads, but I do not make them a normal feature of my diet.

The pot noodles post is in my blog, alongside another rant about the poor unfortunate populace of Camberwell!

AdamJames · May 28, 2018

Packets of noodles, along with flapjacks and porridge oats, used to be the the main things I'd pack when going walking for more than a day.

I'm sorry to say I'll be going back to them next time I'm out walking, too, to see what effect they have. It's just an experiment and probably a one-off, but there is reasoning behind it, and I can certainly avoid big spikes if I eat carbs just before / during big walks.

Anyway, to support the notion of this thread, I was having a conversation with someone at work about Pot Noodles, and he said he'd never consider eating them because they remind him of the contents of a hoover bag.

JohnEGreen · May 28, 2018

Your average hoover bag would probably have less rubbish in it than a pot noodle.

SueJB · May 28, 2018

Contralto said:
Dear Cherry,

Really interested in your trip to Japan but did not see your post on pot noodles. If you are talking about those dried instant things with a lot of artificial flavorings including MSG (headaches and sodium!), high carbs and other nasty stuff, I gave them up long ago.

I do, however, succumb to the rare treat of Japanese dried buckwheat noodles, and the rare bean threads, but I do not make them a normal feature of my diet.

I agree @Contralto I use konjac noodles instead................... 0 carbs

Deleted member 308541 · May 28, 2018

JohnEGreen said:
Your average hoover bag would probably have less rubbish in it than a pot noodle.

Surprising how much protein gets into our vacuum cleaner, spiders, gecko's etc...

SueJB · May 30, 2018

Contralto said:
I gotta admit, I like those,especially fried in oil

Oooooooh, now there's a novel idea @Contralto . I suppose they'd come out a bit like chow mein/Hong Kong noodles

Tony337 · May 30, 2018

Hi
My wife, son and I were looking at universities earlier this year and one of the universities were giving them away FREE to students!
I kid you not.

Being of the coeliac flavour I examined the carb content of a new GF version of pot noodles in asda.......
65g of carbs!
65g!

I had to sit down.

Tony

Robinredbreast · May 30, 2018

Tony337 said:
Hi
My wife, son and I were looking at universities earlier this year and one of the universities were giving them away FREE to students!
I kid you not.

Being of the coeliac flavour I examined the carb content of a new GF version of pot noodles in asda.......
65g of carbs!
65g!

I had to sit down.

Tony

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