New Google Doodle Honors Instant Noodle Inventor Momofuku Ando
Kevin McSpadden

(TIME) Peel off lid. Pour boiling water. Steep for three minutes. Stir well and serve.

Thursday marks the 105th birthday of Taiwanese-Japanese inventor Momofuku Ando, whose instant noodles revolutionized the food world, and Google is honoring this king of quick cuisine with a new Google Doodle.

As TIME wrote back in 2006, “In 1958, Momofuku Ando, an unassuming entrepreneur living in Osaka, created the instant noodle — and a continent has been feasting on his invention ever since.”

Full story: http://time.com/3732916/momofuku-ando-google-doodle-instant-noodles-cup-noodles-top-ramen/

-- TIME 2015-03-05[/b]

OK TVF members...time to fess up.

How many of us have slurped instant noodles?

Be honest.

Me....hundreds...perhaps thousands of times since I first saw

a cup of "Nissin Cup Noodle" back in 1973 out here in these

parts. Not great, not bad either & with a few fresh additions it

becomes pretty darn good quick grub IMO.

I wonder...how many makers of instant noodles there are

today?

Hint...back in 2005, 85.7 billion packets of instant noodles had

been consumed worldwide......

https://web.archive.org/web/20080307055202/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/bl_ando.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando

Another interesting fact about instant noodles...many organisations doing disaster

relief give out cases upon cases of the things to victims. Light weight, easy to

prepare and...warm & a bit filling too boot.

Never in my life had these instant noodles.

And if the wife presents me with them, one day, she wouldn't know where to hide to avoid my wrath.

Otherwise, I'm a very easy going person...............................

Very, very rarely as I don't like them. But they have been coming in handy when trekking or birding.

Costas....Could honestly tell if the noodles are of the instant variety

if presented to you in a nice bowl and you didn't see any packets in

the rubbish bin or laying about? Especially if your missus included

some fresh meats & veggies & chili's.....

I figure I could because of the extremely high sodium content as well as various artificial flavor enhancers.

I make them regularly as a substitute starch from potatoes and whole grain rice. Add my own flavorings and veggies -- a good, cheap, healthy lunch.

Edited March 5, 201511 yr by FangFerang

I make them regularly as a substitute starch from potatoes and whole grain rice. Add my own flavorings and veggies -- a good, cheap, healthy lunch.

Doing it that way makes sense but most people don't...instead they just use the flavour sachet and eat them directly....consequently there is about as much real nutrition in them as there is in the plastic in which they are wrapped.

And double the daily recommended intake of Sodium....

Momofuku Ando, the inventer of Instant noodles, lived into his nineties. He said in an interview that he ate his instant noodles every day.

I knew those things will kill you--eventually.

T

I haven't had them for a long time, but only because I forgot which flavour I like.

They're pretty good if you throw in some chopped green onions, some cabbage, maybe an egg. High in sodium, but what isn't around here...

Thats a brilliant idea, NASA could use them instant noodles on that long voyage to Mars. Light weight getting it up into the air into space.....All 2200 tons of the stuff. Enough to last a life time or 36 months to Mars. Only one problem guys!........they forgot to bring along some water!.......and I know what your thinking, .....nope...can only use urine one time!