Students and artists despair · 22 January 07
The inventor of Ramen Noodles, Momofuku Ando, died last week in Japan at the age of 96.
According to his company’s website, Nissin Foods, Ando wanted to provide cheap food to the working class of post-war Japan, so created the noodles in 1958.
The preparation instructions were meant to be the selling point: “Remove the ramen from its package and place it in a bowl. Add boiling water, cover, and wait three minutes.”
The Nissin Foods website claims that that Japanese consumers eat roughly 45 portions of ramen, bags and cups combined, each year, while U.S. consumers are estimated to eat 9 portions of ramen each year. This number is an average influenced, no doubt, by the high number of students and artists everywhere who virtually live on teh stuff. It’s a meal for about 30 cents… that gives you more than a full day’s worth of sodium and as much fat as a Quarter Pounder with cheese. How can you beat that?
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