# Great piece about Ramen, but...

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 13, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-piece-about-ramen-but/68695 "2001-06-13T17:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-piece-about-ramen-but/68695/41 "2001-07-04T19:34:46Z")

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Yes, the salt, dear GOD the salt!

Here in China they seem to put a pound of salt into every recipe, not to mention all the oil.  
It takes a while, but eventually one gets hooked on the excessive amounts.

I still cringe at the thought of the saltcheese they have here, though _shudder_

— G. Raven

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-piece-about-ramen-but/68695/42 "2001-07-04T22:52:08Z")

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[[I also have my doubts about it’s Japanese origins, almost everything (especially noodle related) was invented in China in 3000 B.C.]]

Well yeah, Morrison. Read the staff report. I said that noodles came from China originally, and that Japan borrowed the idea. “Ramen” is the Japanese pronunciation of “Lo Mein.”

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