CosmicTramp
Pot noodles first came out when I was in 6th form ( in much smaller pots than now) back in the heady punk era and were the cool trendy thing to eat in a school lunch hour, on the building site, factory or in the office, providing a genuine hot lunch.
Within less than two years they had already acquired a joke reputation as being grot nosh, "uk!", fodder for oafs and dullards who had no inclination or ability to cook or enjoy real food, even reviled by the most (ahem) 'rebellious' of the social strata: students.
...All produced by some sinister faceless Illuminati driven multinational company who intended to control us through food additives and artificial flavourings, ultimately rendering us Pot Noodle addicts as mankind's last surviving food source ; mass produced and stockpiled in the nuclear bunker when the cows and fresh veg finally died out.
I don't know the facts but I'm guessing that sales must have plummetted at some point when the 'novelty' wore off.
Two decades later, having cooked and sampled all manner of sumptious fayre and international cuisine - much of it new to Britain, I now find myself returning to The Pot Noodle as an acceptable, tasty, quick, disposable lunchtime snack. Appetising and filling - and with no washing up.
The new, upgraded, additive free, modified versions of Pot Noodle actually do taste something like. So is this a manifestaion of mid life crisis ? Or just a Crisis in a Noodle Pot - since I was was able to by four pots for a pound yesterday from my local discount shop who had a special display stacked high to the ceiling of both Spicy and Sweet & Sour. There aren't many other lunches available at 25p a time.
Have Unilever overfaced theselves with mega production of their dehydrated durum wheat ? Is there a Pot noodle Mountain ? Or is demand driving us all to dig into the delights of the ultimate Post Apocalypse food ?
Within less than two years they had already acquired a joke reputation as being grot nosh, "uk!", fodder for oafs and dullards who had no inclination or ability to cook or enjoy real food, even reviled by the most (ahem) 'rebellious' of the social strata: students.
...All produced by some sinister faceless Illuminati driven multinational company who intended to control us through food additives and artificial flavourings, ultimately rendering us Pot Noodle addicts as mankind's last surviving food source ; mass produced and stockpiled in the nuclear bunker when the cows and fresh veg finally died out.
I don't know the facts but I'm guessing that sales must have plummetted at some point when the 'novelty' wore off.
Two decades later, having cooked and sampled all manner of sumptious fayre and international cuisine - much of it new to Britain, I now find myself returning to The Pot Noodle as an acceptable, tasty, quick, disposable lunchtime snack. Appetising and filling - and with no washing up.
The new, upgraded, additive free, modified versions of Pot Noodle actually do taste something like. So is this a manifestaion of mid life crisis ? Or just a Crisis in a Noodle Pot - since I was was able to by four pots for a pound yesterday from my local discount shop who had a special display stacked high to the ceiling of both Spicy and Sweet & Sour. There aren't many other lunches available at 25p a time.
Have Unilever overfaced theselves with mega production of their dehydrated durum wheat ? Is there a Pot noodle Mountain ? Or is demand driving us all to dig into the delights of the ultimate Post Apocalypse food ?