I also went the mac and cheese/pot pie route instead of ramen. During the early '80s, Winn Dixie's store brand of M&C was 25 cents a box. Butter/margarine on sale would last forever, and water substituted nicely for milk.
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Fred Pete - May 17, 2007 7:38:49 am PDT #7856 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Jesse - May 17, 2007 7:39:46 am PDT #7857 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still do this! Except I call it breakfast!
Heh.
I think that might have been from the same person who passed along her father's advice to drink Chivas on dates -- it's expensive, so the guy won't get you liquored up, and you (18 year old girl "you") won't like it that much, so you won't get yourself liquored up, either...
Kat - May 17, 2007 7:42:34 am PDT #7858 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I still eat ramen. But not with anything other than draining it then stir frying the noodles so they are crunchy.
tommyrot - May 17, 2007 7:43:52 am PDT #7859 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So - ramen people: do you use those flavor packets? or toss them?
Aims - May 17, 2007 7:44:19 am PDT #7860 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Use them!!
Jesse - May 17, 2007 7:45:46 am PDT #7861 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I drain the water, and use some of the flavor packet on the noodles. Also a little sesame oil, if I was not fortunate enough to get the chicken sesame flavor. YUMMERS.
tommyrot - May 17, 2007 7:45:49 am PDT #7862 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I OD'd on ramen, my tolerance of the flavor packets was the first to go....
Daisy Jane - May 17, 2007 7:45:54 am PDT #7863 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think that might have been from the same person who passed along her father's advice to drink Chivas on dates -- it's expensive, so the guy won't get you liquored up, and you (18 year old girl "you") won't like it that much, so you won't get yourself liquored up, either...
This too! Except it's Glenlevet, and it's not so much that I don't like the taste, it's that they figure it's a waste of time because I'll drink them under the table.
Vortex - May 17, 2007 7:46:19 am PDT #7864 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I use the packets. I also boil it down until it's riiiiight before mush. so, it's less soup and more slushy noodles.
shrift - May 17, 2007 7:46:59 am PDT #7865 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I used the flavor packets. I was too poor to own a spice rack.