Congratulations to Pirate on Achieving Godhood!

[_moksha]

Is anybody else strangely craving a pot noodle? I sure am...

With a little Marmite, lip gloss and big and small fish? Quantum!

[_Ren]

P.s. Ren, marmite is only good in the making of gravy. Although I haven't actually tried it on toast.

Thou shalt spread the Marmite onto thine toast.
And thou shalt taste of it's exceeding goodness.

Thus saith Ren. And so shall it be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eean1pNV ... re=related

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Ren- I remember that advert. I might try it sometime.

Moska- These things don't go well together, only seperately. Bombay Bad Boy Potnoodle is by far the best. When I worked back home I ate them al the time and my work were asking me how I was going to afford life and things, Pam said "never mind, you can affort a pot noodle a day". Only problem is, I'd eat them all day everyday if the nearest shop wasn't so far away. That was my thing.

JG- Thanks. The bananas are loopy. I see the pattern, but my mind wants me to believe they are all random and doing different things. Banana's before one's feet might cause a bad accident XD. Thank you.

[_Blixa]

I've been looking online for a place I can order the Bombay Bad Boy---I know several websites that specialize in mailorder of popular British snacks (I bought a huge lot of Roundtree Gums and Cadbury Flake for my husband for xmas---he grew up in East Anglia). But no luck so far.

However, I did find the website of the advertising firm that Unilever used to relaunch and revitalize their Pot Noodles. What a revelation! This is what I should be doing, lord knows I'd probably be making more money working for Greg Rowland Semiotics than teaching semiotics and cultural theory.

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Greg Rowland Semiotics is a global consultancy that uses cultural theory to analyse and develop brands

Pot Noodle
UK
Greg Rowland Semiotics was asked to make Pot Noodle a more iconic brand. By looking at the codes of the brand, sector and product offer we devised a surprising positioning statement for Pot Noodle: ‘Food Porn.’ This directly inspired the legendary ‘Slag of All Snacks’ communications that raised sales by 29% when on air. We also devised Pot Noodle’s ‘Posh Noodle’ and ‘Bombay Bad Boy’ variants.

Semiotics is about understanding how the world of culture works. By analysing symbolism across brands, products, design, communications and popular culture we can uncover amazing new insights. It’s a desk-based process - no consumer interaction is involved. We then manipulate the codes of culture to offer fresh opportunities for brands and product to explore.

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Food porn. Genius. "The Slag of All Snacks." Again, genius. And even better, this is an advertising and marketing company that relies solely on theory and not the horror of "focus groups" and other crap research. Clearly I've been wasting my expertise in academica.

One does wonder though, just a teeny bit, if "food porn" has made it onto the radar of the first presidency yet. When will a Proclamation to The World go forth on Pot Noodles? Will the Word of Wisdom be reworked to include them under "hot drinks?"

[_Imwashingmypirate]

So that's why pot noodles excite me too much XD.

See I am unconsciously being manipulated into falling in love with Book of Mormon bay bad boy pot noodles. I even got my collegues addicted because I ate them all the time and they thought they would try it.

One actually literally craves pot noodles. They should make them with out the peas and sweetcorn thought. I spend a lot of time taking them out. I hate them. Also they should put more noodles in. And have the option of going even spicier, because lets be honest, the satchet of chilli sauce only works the first few times. Then you get used to it and it becomes easy to eat.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

The church banning pot noodles! I'd die. People drink hot chocolate in church and pot noodles are just genius. They couldn't possibly. If they did, many pot noodle lovers out there just might come to realise church is all about control and not well being.

[_harmony]

What exactly is a pot noodle?

I was thinking it was something like ramen, but that's obviously not the case.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

http://www.potnoodle.co.uk/xfactor/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle

[_Blixa]

What exactly is a pot noodle?

I was thinking it was something like ramen, but that's obviously not the case.

It is but I think the noodles of the brand pirate favors are thicker and wider. Plus the flavors are more varied than the standard ramen cup o' noodles in the U.S. They are more like the wide variety of British crisp (potato chip) flavors.

You can probably find cup noodles similar to the Bombay Bad Boy in asian food markets: Indian and Korean ones are especially hot and flavorful. But some of the pot noodle flavors strike me as distinctly british. Which is why I want them!

*sigh* I can see I'm going to have to get a chip dinner with mushy peas and a shandy for dinner tonight.

[_moksha]

What exactly is a pot noodle?

I was thinking it was something like ramen, but that's obviously not the case.

Like ramen. We Yanks might call this a cup of noodles. It would be unfortunate if the Church extended its ban to hot noodles that warm the belly, not realizing there is no caffeine to be found in these noodles. Still, too few Americans have developed an appreciation for curried foods, so they might be confused with caffeinated items.