What has more nutritional value? cardboard? or a pot noodle?!
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Answers:
Goodness knows I have done everything in my power to despise this ‘suspect’ snack product but I have to admit they are pretty good on the whole and deserve a place in everyone’s kitchen cupboard (just behind that box of iffy smelling stock cubes that have turned white and went off in 1987) and I cannot explain why!.
What you get when you buy a Pot Noodle:
- A plastic cup with a foil lid containing a quarter of an inch of what at first appears to be the scrapings from inside your budgie’s cage mixed with a tramp’s toenail clippings!. This is what the pack claims to be a tasty snack once you add the magic ingredient (hot water!)
- A sachet of gloop loosely termed as pot noodle sauce
- Erm… …That’s it!
How to make the Pot Noodle:
You will need:
A kettle
Hot Water
A Fork
Scissors (probably)
Nerves of Steel
The Patience of Jobe
No more than one functioning taste bud
Absolutely no respect for your body whatsoever
1!.Fill kettle with water and boil
2!.Peel off the foil lid, it’s amazing how much tension this can cause – will you manage to get the lid off in one piece without a single piece of foil remaining on the lip of the pot!? If you can you are indeed a Pot Noodle expert!.
3!.Remove plastic sachet of sauce and leave to one side!. Don’t leave it in the pot, melted plastic won’t add to the flavour that much!.
4!.Add boiling water into pot to the fill level marked on the pot!. Sadly the fill level is on the outside of the pot and you add the water to the inside, more tension as you test your hand to eye co-ordination!. Too much water and you get noodles in coloured water; too little water and you get noodles in a thick form of toxic waste!. Note: The ridged lip on the side of the pot appears to be on the fill level but is slightly higher and designed just to confuse!. Using this ridge on the pot as a guide can result in a weak noodle mixture!.
5!.Stare into pot unimpressed and try and find something to do while you wait for the recommended two minutes without stirring!. Yet more tension, it’s amazing how long two minutes can be!. Can you wait a whole 120 seconds without stirring it!? This can be equated to waiting for a Fray Bentos Pie to bake in the oven – you always get tired of waiting and eat it half-baked!. Instances like this seem to prove Einstein’s theory or relativity!.
6!.Return to noodle in two minutes and sigh, it looks no better!. Give the pot a good stir remembering to scrape right the way to the bottom other wise you get the time-bomb effect!. This is when you start eating the pot noodle without stirring thoroughly and it tastes weak but half way trough the pot you hit a pocket of unmixed noodles and sauce and the toxic waste hits your taste buds, crosses your eyes and blows three years worth of wax out of your ears – not pleasant!.
7!.Leave the pot noodle for a further two minutes!. Is it worth all of this waiting you wonder!. If only four minutes worth of sex seemed to last as long as those four minutes it takes to wait for a pot noodle my wife would be a happy woman!
8!.Return to the pot and give it a final stir (remembering the time-bomb warning in step 6)!.
9!.Try to tear open the plastic sachet of gloop (sauce) and pour onto top of pot noodle and stir it in hoping it will make a difference!. Scissors may be required for opening the sachet as it seems to have been sealed by the same people who seal Electricity and Gas meters (these weren’t designed to be opened either)
10!.Find a nice comfortable seat to enjoy your snack!.
11!.Eat the snack while attempting not to scald the lining from your mouth!. You soon discover that the four minutes of waiting were NOT worth it after all!. Vow never to eat another Pot Noodle again – but you will!.
Amazing Pot Noodle Facts I have found (but cannot substantiate):
Pot Noodles are vegetarian friendly and contain no meat (even the Beef and Tomato or chicken varieties use Textured Soya Pieces, hmmmm nice!)!.
They are based on foods designed by NASA for early astronauts (before someone discovered the dangers of boiling kettles in weightless environments)
Scientists working at the Food Standards Agency have discovered that the nutritional value of used cat litter is higher than that of Pot Noodle and other re-constituted snacks!.
Hope this answers your question!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
What you get when you buy a Pot Noodle:
- A plastic cup with a foil lid containing a quarter of an inch of what at first appears to be the scrapings from inside your budgie’s cage mixed with a tramp’s toenail clippings!. This is what the pack claims to be a tasty snack once you add the magic ingredient (hot water!)
- A sachet of gloop loosely termed as pot noodle sauce
- Erm… …That’s it!
How to make the Pot Noodle:
You will need:
A kettle
Hot Water
A Fork
Scissors (probably)
Nerves of Steel
The Patience of Jobe
No more than one functioning taste bud
Absolutely no respect for your body whatsoever
1!.Fill kettle with water and boil
2!.Peel off the foil lid, it’s amazing how much tension this can cause – will you manage to get the lid off in one piece without a single piece of foil remaining on the lip of the pot!? If you can you are indeed a Pot Noodle expert!.
3!.Remove plastic sachet of sauce and leave to one side!. Don’t leave it in the pot, melted plastic won’t add to the flavour that much!.
4!.Add boiling water into pot to the fill level marked on the pot!. Sadly the fill level is on the outside of the pot and you add the water to the inside, more tension as you test your hand to eye co-ordination!. Too much water and you get noodles in coloured water; too little water and you get noodles in a thick form of toxic waste!. Note: The ridged lip on the side of the pot appears to be on the fill level but is slightly higher and designed just to confuse!. Using this ridge on the pot as a guide can result in a weak noodle mixture!.
5!.Stare into pot unimpressed and try and find something to do while you wait for the recommended two minutes without stirring!. Yet more tension, it’s amazing how long two minutes can be!. Can you wait a whole 120 seconds without stirring it!? This can be equated to waiting for a Fray Bentos Pie to bake in the oven – you always get tired of waiting and eat it half-baked!. Instances like this seem to prove Einstein’s theory or relativity!.
6!.Return to noodle in two minutes and sigh, it looks no better!. Give the pot a good stir remembering to scrape right the way to the bottom other wise you get the time-bomb effect!. This is when you start eating the pot noodle without stirring thoroughly and it tastes weak but half way trough the pot you hit a pocket of unmixed noodles and sauce and the toxic waste hits your taste buds, crosses your eyes and blows three years worth of wax out of your ears – not pleasant!.
7!.Leave the pot noodle for a further two minutes!. Is it worth all of this waiting you wonder!. If only four minutes worth of sex seemed to last as long as those four minutes it takes to wait for a pot noodle my wife would be a happy woman!
8!.Return to the pot and give it a final stir (remembering the time-bomb warning in step 6)!.
9!.Try to tear open the plastic sachet of gloop (sauce) and pour onto top of pot noodle and stir it in hoping it will make a difference!. Scissors may be required for opening the sachet as it seems to have been sealed by the same people who seal Electricity and Gas meters (these weren’t designed to be opened either)
10!.Find a nice comfortable seat to enjoy your snack!.
11!.Eat the snack while attempting not to scald the lining from your mouth!. You soon discover that the four minutes of waiting were NOT worth it after all!. Vow never to eat another Pot Noodle again – but you will!.
Amazing Pot Noodle Facts I have found (but cannot substantiate):
Pot Noodles are vegetarian friendly and contain no meat (even the Beef and Tomato or chicken varieties use Textured Soya Pieces, hmmmm nice!)!.
They are based on foods designed by NASA for early astronauts (before someone discovered the dangers of boiling kettles in weightless environments)
Scientists working at the Food Standards Agency have discovered that the nutritional value of used cat litter is higher than that of Pot Noodle and other re-constituted snacks!.
Hope this answers your question!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
cardboard doesn't have any calories:) !.!.!.!. try styrofoam peanuts for a nice no-cal snack too! It tastes like air-popped popcorn, with no butter or salt:) !.!.!.!.!.!. Lots of fiber here!Www@FoodAQ@Com
I would say the cardboard! :-) or that there is not a lot in it! LOLWww@FoodAQ@Com