Dead bug in my ramen noodles

[Jackmannii]

“Dead bug in the middle of my ramen noodles
Stinkin’ to high heaven…”
Nah, the original’s better.

[Cerri]

@caligynephobia

BTW, once you’ve tried good ramen, you won’t go back to the $0.15 grocery store stuff. Usually costs about $2/package at an Asian food store. Same amount of sodium, but much better flavor and higher quality noodles.

Even better, if you’re ever in Japan hit a ramen bar (also recommend the Ramen Museum in Tokyo) and you can pay around $10 for a heavenly bowl - freshly cut noodles, fresh veggies and meat . . . worth the $10. In Yen, of course.

Well, yes, but then that defeats the purpose of why broke-assed people dine on them the country over…namely, how damned cheap it is. Hell, if it wasn’t for cheap-ass ramen, I’d have starved to death during a couple bad years of my life.

[ouryL]

@KJ

Ah, the little things in life that give me the heebie jeebies.

I’m getting ready to heat up a bowl of ramen noodles this morning, and I get a pleasant surprise. Along with the noodles, I see some strange foreign object fall into the pot. I examine it for a few seconds and come to the conclusion that it’s a ( :eek: !!!) dead insect in my noodles! Ewww! And there were two of them!

At least, I’m 99% sure it’s a dead bug. (Does this look like a dead bug to you? 1, 2, 3, 4.) I’m pretty sure this is how the little fuckers got in there.

Realistically I probably could’ve eaten the entire batch of noodles, insects and all, and it wouldn’t have killed me, but still…ewwwww! I threw out the whole batch of noodles and made another one, after an obligatory paranoid visual scan of the entire bag of noodles before I dumped them into the pot.

That dead bug is just an authentic flavoring ingredient!!

[Skywatcher]

@caligynephobia

BTW, once you’ve tried good ramen, you won’t go back to the $0.15 grocery store stuff. Usually costs about $2/package at an Asian food store. Same amount of sodium, but much better flavor and higher quality noodles.

Check the “ethnic” section of your local grocery store, you might find the real stuff there, too.

[ralph124c]

Here here! Dried insects are quite nutitious! The chinese eat stir-fried silkworms, and the ancient mexicans at all kinds of bugs. Think about it: insects are full of protein, and no cholesterol!
It is even theorized that the weevils that the japanese consumed along with their polished rice, saved them from beri-beri (the bugs conributed vitamin A).
So, don’t worry about a few dead bugs in your ramen-I’d worry more about the bacteria in your oysters or hamburger!

[Amazon_Floozy_Goddess]

Hoo boy. This calls for my story about the “KD Cocoon”…

A few years back, I was making Kraft Dinner. I had the water boiling and I opened the pack and tipped it over the pot. Instead of the usual cascade of noodles, though, a solid mass of noodles fused together with webbing slid out of the box and plopped into the water, whereupon it instantly broke open and spilled out hundreds of maggots, boiling to death.

I haven’t eaten KD since. :eek: