Top Ramen is my second savior

[dev553344]

I thank God for Top Ramen. The food of the Gods. 25 cents a meal guys, eat up!

 

[Pathfinder7]

Ramen is one of the best 'survival' foods.
- According to.. some survival experts.

 

[dev553344]

Ramen is one of the best 'survival' foods.
- According to.. some survival experts.

It's kept me alive and fed for a while since I'm on a low budget!

 

[amadeus]

It's kept me alive and fed for a while since I'm on a low budget!

Give God the glory!

 

[dev553344]

Give God the glory!

Yeah, God and the Chinese working class poor people that make it! I just don't understand why they don't pack fortune cookies in there?

 

[amadeus]

Yeah, God and the Chinese working class poor people that make it! I just don't understand why they don't pack fortune cookies in there?

Years ago when we were young and finances were tight my wife and I ate a whole lot of that Top Ramen. I haven't had it myself for a long time, but my wife still fixes some it herself for a quick meal.

 

[dev553344]

It only takes 3 minutes to prepare guys:

 

[dev553344]

Years ago when we were young and finances were tight my wife and I ate a whole lot of that Top Ramen. I haven't had it myself for a long time, but my wife still fixes some it herself for a quick meal.

I actually like the pork ramen on cold days!

 

[amadeus]

I actually like the pork ramen on cold days!

I am out of the Ramen picture these days, but we still both partake once in a while in old fashioned spam. I learned to like spam when I was in the US Army as part of our canned rations. In Viet Nam I was in a barracks with a mess hall most of the time, but in the Dominican Republic we lived in a tent several miles away from the mess hall. We made a chow and shower run once a day, but the rest of our meals it was spam or ham & eggs or any of several other canned choices which did not require refrigeration or cooking.

When we have spam, my wife fries it up in a skillet and makes up hot spam sandwiches for us. With a touch of mustard it makes a good simple meal. Of course in the army I had no mustard, no skillet, no fire and no bread, but we made do.

 

[dev553344]

I am out of the Ramen picture these days, but we still both partake once in a while in old fashioned spam. I learned to like spam when I was in the US Army as part of our canned rations. In Viet Nam I was in a barracks with a mess hall most of the time, but in the Dominican Republic we lived in a tent several miles away from the mess hall. We made a chow and shower run once a day, but the rest of our meals it was spam or ham & eggs or any of several other canned choices which did not require refrigeration or cooking.

When we have spam, my wife fries it up in a skillet and makes up hot spam sandwiches for us. With a touch of mustard it makes a good simple meal. Of course in the army I had no mustard, no skillet, no fire and no bread, but we made do.

Got me thinking, I wonder if you can add spam to top ramen, pork ramen of course. We had MRE's in the military when I was in in the 90's. Missed out on spam

 

[Nancy]

I love Top Ramen but the salt content has me holding the water of Lake Erie the next day :O

 

[amadeus]

Got me thinking, I wonder if you can add spam to top ramen, pork ramen of course. We had MRE's in the military when I was in in the 90's. Missed out on spam

I suppose that you could. When it was available, my wife would add some kind of bits of meat to it. When I was in the army we ate left over C-rations and K-rations from WWII and the Korean War. It was old but still quite edible. I was on active duty from Aug 1963 until Aug 1966.

 

[dev553344]

I suppose that you could. When it was available, my wife would add some kind of bits of meat to it. When I was in the army we ate left over C-rations and K-rations from WWII and the Korean War. It was old but still quite edible. I was on active duty from Aug 1963 until Aug 1966.

Wow, the stories you could tell regarding your service, mine was reservist years. We almost went to war, but the Iraq war ended short.

 

[Nancy]

I suppose that you could. When it was available, my wife would add some kind of bits of meat to it. When I was in the army we ate left over C-rations and K-rations from WWII and the Korean War. It was old but still quite edible. I was on active duty from Aug 1963 until Aug 1966.

Funny, it was Feb. of 1981 that I signed up for 4 years in the A.F. We began with the C-rats but quickly switched over to the newly introduced (to us, anyhow) MRI's. They weren't too bad and they were packed with tons of calories...needed of course, in times of war and simulations.
Those old c and k rations were well preserved!! lol. I came home with several of the MRI's and gave them to my brother for when he went hunting.

 

[Prayer Warrior]

It only takes 3 minutes to prepare guys:

This brand is made in the USA.

 

[amadeus]

Wow, the stories you could tell regarding your service, mine was reservist years. We almost went to war, but the Iraq war ended short.

Yes, I can tell a few, but I was not serving God in those days, so some of them I will never tell.

I was stationed at a small separated compound on the Danang U.S. Air Force Base operating a Microwave Radio station. We were Army Signal Corps but the Army had no combat troops in the country [other than a few Special Forces serving as advisors to the South Vietnamese troops (ARVN)] at that time so the Air Force were our defenders. The combat troops around us consisted of the ARVN and two companies of US Marine a few miles from us. We operated and repaired our Microwave Radios using what was called Tropospheric Scatter because our signal literally bounced off the Troposphere and scattered toward the receiving station. This gave us a connection which allowed our stations to be slightly father apart than line of sight.

On our compound we operated three radios stations and we also had a radio repair group that only repaired all kinds of radio equipment for the military. We had own little mess hall that served the worst chow I ever ate. When I was on the night shift our mess hall was closed so I was allowed to go over the large wonderful Air Force Mess Hall. They prepared food like a restaurant back home. We were on the air 24/7 with rotating shifts so those Air Force mess meals happened every once in while. My Radio station had 24 voice channels and 38 teletype channel between us in Danang and the city of Hue to our north close the border with North Viet Nam.

Our equipment on our stations provided at the time main line telephone communications for the whole country of South Viet Nam as it was better than anything the local people had. Of course, since we for the most part did not speak Vietnamese we were sure the Viet Cong used our phone lines as well.

 

[dev553344]

This brand is made in the USA.

OK so I read about it, and yes they have a US company but it is originally from Japan. They also have a Japan based op. Strange that it only cost 25 cents if it's US based.

 

[amadeus]

Funny, it was Feb. of 1981 that I signed up for 4 years in the A.F. We began with the C-rats but quickly switched over to the newly introduced (to us, anyhow) MRI's. They weren't too bad and they were packed with tons of calories...needed of course, in times of war and simulations.
Those old c and k rations were well preserved!! lol. I came home with several of the MRI's and gave them to my brother for when he went hunting.

Good to the last bite! Waste not, want not! LOL

 

[Prayer Warrior]

OK so I read about it, and yes they have a US company but it is originally from Japan. They also have a Japan based op. Strange that it only cost 25 cents if it's US based.

My family eats this brand. I was pleasantly surprised to see “made in USA” on the package. I figured they were made in China.

 

[dev553344]

Yes, I can tell a few, but I was not serving God in those days, so some of them I will never tell.

I was stationed at a small separated compound on the Danang U.S. Air Force Base operating a Microwave Radio station. We were Army Signal Corps but the Army had no combat troops in the country [other than a few Special Forces serving as advisors to the South Vietnamese troops (ARVN)] at that time so the Air Force were our defenders. The combat troops around us consisted of the ARVN and two companies of US Marine a few miles from us. We operated and repaired our Microwave Radios using what was called Tropospheric Scatter because our signal literally bounced off the Troposphere and scattered toward the receiving station. This gave us a connection which allowed our stations to be slightly father apart than line of sight.

On our compound we operated three radios stations and we also had a radio repair group that only repaired all kinds of radio equipment for the military. We had own little mess hall that served the worst chow I ever ate. When I was on the night shift our mess hall was closed so I was allowed to go over the large wonderful Air Force Mess Hall. They prepared food like a restaurant back home. We were on the air 24/7 with rotating shifts so those Air Force mess meals happened every once in while. My Radio station had 24 voice channels and 38 teletype channel between us in Danang and the city of Hue to our north close the border with North Viet Nam.

Our equipment on our stations provided at the time main line telephone communications for the whole country of South Viet Nam as it was better than anything the local people had. Of course, since we for the most part did not speak Vietnamese we were sure the Viet Cong used our phone lines as well.

Wow, I was a heavy equipment mechanic and a long-shoreman in the USMCR. We tied supplies to helicopters for troop supplies for the most part. I was in the landing support battalion.