• dektep@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    took me a long time to realise what Americans meant by ramen. Especially when they considered it low budget food. Instant noodles are not really ramen

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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      4 hours ago

      I assume it’s a regional thing. “Instant ramen” are noodles or 2 minute noodles here. It’s rarely labelled as ramen and never called it.

      From childhood I knew about ramen from anime and I knew about instant ramen from American media but I didn’t learn until later that they aren’t the same thing and instant reman is just 2 minute noodles.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Isn’t this meme the wrong way round?

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character is the philistine who would be on the instant noodle pot

    Unless OP is saying instant noodle pots are the superior form, which I can’t agree with, but I guess someone out there is gonna

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      9 hours ago

      Depends on my mood. 95% of the time the ramen on the left is superior, but once in a while you get a hunger which only instant ramen can satisfy.

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      7 hours ago

      You’re right, but at first I thought the OP was trying to pull a fast one on us and the right was a picture of that super expensive restaurant ramen that serves in a shitty ramen cup.