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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veho" data-source="post: 7670285" data-attributes="member: 38180">With FAST's blessing, look, it has the logo and everything: <img src="https://gbatemp.net/attachments/gbachef-png.3459/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Ramen! (The instant kind.)Convenient quick and easy meal for the culinary deprived, horrible salt-laden grease-filled MSG-infested heart attack in a bowl, or salvation to the starving (drunken) college student and bachelor masses, there are few who at some point in time haven't tried the ubiquitous 3-minute miracle meal (or 5 minute, for the fancy stuff). <img src="https://i.imgur.com/rMW8z0A.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Oh suck it up, you big baby, just remember to drink a gallon of water with each bowl and you'll be fine.So a few cents* will give you a bowl of warm broth packed chock full of delicious flavor enhancers and a handful of noodles for the carbs and fat content, making the trifecta of salty greasy carby goodness that hits all the right spots and makes you happy... for about half an hour, and then you're hungry again. *(Cut-throat competition in the instant noodle world has kept them at ridiculously low prices (by replacing anything remotely resembling actual food with MSG) that make them (seem like) a viable meal or cooking ingredient.)But one can (and often does) get sick of the plain ramen pack, and countless ways to upgrade, boost, enhance, spruce, spice and ramp up, and dare I say "hack", your noodle ( <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite40" alt=":creep:" title="creep    :creep:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":creep:" /> ) are a thing, ranging from adding a few more bottled sauces and spices, via simple fats and acids, boiled eggs and spring onions and leftover meats, assorted vegetation, cheese and nuts, to elaborate meals where the original brick of ramen is just a long distant inspiration, to the point where people say "take instant ramen and throw away the flavor packet-" and that's where it gets a little bit silly because a) <a href="https://i.imgur.com/aIWXPW3.jpg" target="_blank">they make plain instant noodles</a> if you don't intend to use the flavor packet, and b) if you have access to the range of ingredients and cooking space and apparatus (not to mention budget), and the skill to chop and cook, why not just make a noodle soup from the get-go and avoid instant ramen in the first place? I appreciate that "spicing up" instant ramen is, for some, a stepping stone towards learning how to cook, but when you reach the point where you're replacing the flavor packet with actual flavor, and instant noodles with regular noodles because they are cheaper and better, then the dish has become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup" target="_blank">stone soup</a> and you realize you didn't need the instant noodles at all, the soup was inside you all along. (Ew.) <img src="https://i.imgur.com/8emoQ3j.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Holy Grail; alt caption: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/cPxpS19.jpg" target="_blank">You</a> VS the guy she told you not to worry aboutSo, Temp: do you ramen? If so, do you hack, boost or upgrade the ramen? And if so, how?</blockquote>

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