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Ramen!
- Thread starter knucklehead G
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Top(nissin) ramen tends to have better noodle texture than maruchan. There's even a brand called smack ramen sold in dollar stores that tends to have better noodles than maruchan as well. If I had to choose a flavor, it would either be chicken, oriental, or garden vegetable by nissin(top) though. I've eaten so much of the stuff that I've been sick of it for years. I'll avoid eating ramen as much as possible these days.
That's my point, it's not really, unless the price has fallen pretty drastically lately. It was typically over a buck a pound not long back, and the best I've been able to find now is still over $0.60/lb. for store brand 20# sacks on sale at Smart & Final.
Basmati was over two bucks a pound.
To put that in perspective, chicken quarters are typically $0.79/lb. on sale every few weeks.
Far cry from $3.99/50# long grain I used to get at the Arab bodegas in the Inner Mission about fifteen years ago. That's some inflation, brother!
You can get a quality 20 lb sack of rice (e.g. Cal Rose) at the Asian market (99 Ranch) for about $11 ($0.55/lb). They have cheaper but I usually stick with the Cal Rose.
With chicken, don't forget to factor out the bone weight.
If I could eat Calrose (glutenous) rice, I could beat that price at Smart & Final. Why Calrose is always a lot cheaper, I don't exactly understand, but it is, maybe because it's local.
[99 Ranch is always bloody expensive. Why, I dunno.
]Calrose is fine for sushi, but just as table rice, I pass. Too sticky.
I'm still trying to find Texmati locally as Basmati is too expensive to buy. It's about doubled in price in the past couple of years and stayed there.
Sure, but still...
I eat Ramen a lot, mix a lot of veggies/eggs/leftovers into it to help flavour it/mask the badness of the flavour. The stuff I usually get is "Mr. Noodles" 
I eat noodles made from yam right now. They're expensive at almost $4.50 a packet (yeah, but they're imported from Japan) but a packet can make three meals and they're also wheat-free, meaning I don't get ill eating them.
No joke.
My favorite after-gig place is the late night ramen/sushi place by my house. There's nothing better on a winter night after a gig.
I dont eat Ramen anymore. For 59c I can get a bag of pasta noodles, enough for two meals (for two, large portions). So, if I need a quick, cheap meal, I go with that.
Most musicians I know would have starved years ago if not for cheap ramen, so yes it does.
I lived on cheap packets of ramen when I was coming in late from various band stuff...easy, cheap and no chance of me burning the house down when drunk at 3am.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't OT specifically FOR non-bass related topics?
And I agree with knucklehead, ramen is the breakfast/lunch/dinner of the starving artist!
You haven't begun to pay your dues until you've had left over Ramen noodles for breakfast.......
The prospect of leftover ramen is more terrifying to me than whatever is making Phalex make that face in his avatar.
Maruchan Beef all the way. I just made a huge bowl of it last week after not having it for a long time. The spice actually tastes great on meat, use to use the extra spice on chicken since they put too much in the pack.
