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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST Date: 26 Dec 03 - 09:18 AM maybe... probably... most people with any sense would prefer some sort of food... with some sort of taste...curry maybe... however John I find it hard to believe you considered this a relevant topic for discussion only one week after posting this:- dunno, don't know nothing about it, don;t really give a shit either.john ... ps, fed up of hearing about it, tjis is music sight, not iraq sight.john. also... 'Qoute "the posting by pdc asks some serious questions" sure it does, but is a folk music discussion forum the right place to ask those questions? I have no problem with the questions been asked, but is this website the best place to ask them? You may feel that I am trivialising the matter, that is your perogative, |
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Subject: Lyr Add: Pot Noodles Can't Be Beat From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 26 Dec 03 - 03:35 AM Ok, Joe - NOW it's a Music thread? ;-) ~~~~~~~~ Hello John! Look on this as a Christmas Present from Hell, er Hull, whatever... :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pot Noodles Can't Be Beat. © Robin Hayes 2003 Tune: "Willy And The Poor Boys" - or "Down On The Corner" Note: 'A brisk joyful tempo' Chorus: Down on the corner, Out in the street. John from Hull is singing, "Pot Noodles can't be beat". You don't need to cook 'em Don't need to hang around. You can let 'em simmer, Will you hear that magic sound: Ain't got no nutrition, But he don't give a damn. Cause they're ready in a trice, And he's a busy man. Chorus: No peelin' o' potatoes, No slicing up o' ham. No cryin' over onions, Taste better, than Spam. They come in lots o' flavours, In a little packet neat. They got lots o' flavour, Taste just like smelly feet. Chorus: Just boil up some water, In the pack it goes. A quick stir, then in you dip, It warms you to your toes. You don't need to cook 'em, Don't need to hang around. You can let 'em simmer, Will you hear that magic sound: Down on the corner, Out in the street. John from Hull is singing, "Pot Noodles can't be beat". ~~~~~~~~~ Ahhh, I feel better now that's out of me... :-) Now back to the Accordion Thread... :-) Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Sorcha Date: 26 Dec 03 - 01:11 AM Oh,Seamus, nooooooooo! Get your crunchies from fried cockroaches...don't ruin good pot noodles!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 26 Dec 03 - 01:08 AM The Cambodian Pol Pot noodles which killed millions of people were buggers. All seriousness aside, on greaseproof paper, break the noodles, sort them into little piles about an inch in diameter and half and inch tall, pour some melted marshmallow over them, then pour some melted chocolate over that mess, let cool and eat. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Dec 03 - 12:33 AM Joe, I took a look at that thread when it was posted--it is one of the stranger ones I've seen! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 26 Dec 03 - 12:12 AM Copycat threads? I just put "rip off", in the searcher thing, and no threads showed up, [not even this one! maybe i spelled it rong? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Dec 03 - 12:05 AM Well, in general I hate copycat threads, and I hope I don't see any more Rip Off threads for a while, However, this thread was worth it. If it hadn't been for this thread, I might never have been made aware of the Pot Noodles Website that somebody linked to above. You have to see it to believe it. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Dec 03 - 05:46 PM I used to get Lipton Dinners to take mountain climbing because they were a lot more affordable than the freeze-dried Mountain House (I think was the brand) food that one found at REI and other outdoors stores. I haven't been backpacking for a long time but I still remember fondly how good those things tasted when you were perched outside your tent on the side of a mountain. They're horrible if you try to eat them when you're in town. Other foods that taste much better when you're miles up in the mountains are canned chicken (it's great to boost the meat content of the Lipton dinners), boullion (though I have been known to drink that on rare occasion at home), canned pudding, and Vienna sausages, though I won't even eat those in the mountains. But I have friends who will. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Peace Date: 20 Dec 03 - 04:24 PM Bush would have dropped the Pork flavoured noodles, and then the sh#t would have hit the fan, LH. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Dec 03 - 12:12 PM The USA (and coalition) should obviously have dropped massive amounts of Pot Noodles to the starving masses in Afghanistan and Iraq after the recent wars there. Had this been done, so many hearts and minds would have been won that there would be nothing but peace and prosperity as far as the eye can see, and Islamic fundamentalism would have withered and died. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave Hanson Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:03 AM I live too far away from the Andes so I guess I'll never eat one. [ thankfully ] rice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: BanjoRay Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:15 AM Actually - Pot Noodles are excellent for climbing mountains in the Andes. They weigh very little, just need hot water to turn them into something edible, and when you've climbed a few thousand feet to get to your bivouac, you're hungry enough for them to be delicious. There's even enough calories in to get you up the rest of the mountain. I would however never put them near my mouth in any other circumstance! Cheers Ray |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Cluin Date: 19 Dec 03 - 06:30 PM Nope. Just a little rip off the old crock. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: TIA Date: 19 Dec 03 - 02:13 PM I thought the question was "Are Not Poodles a Big Ripoff". Of course they are. Stick with the pound mongrel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Skipjack K8 Date: 19 Dec 03 - 10:54 AM Incidentally, jOhn, apropos the Funniest Thread, where you are basking in three nominations, a smidgeon behind the Drumcree threads, I note that you extol the virtues of Pot Noodles, and how they'd fit in perfectly with the diet of the Buddhist monk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: EBarnacle Date: 19 Dec 03 - 10:44 AM I just went to the site Ed blickified. It is beyond bizarre. One more good reason not to eat Pot Noodles, Cup of Noodles and all of that ilk is the amount of waste the product leaves behind after it is consumed. The content is close to nil compared to the package. There are enough styofoam and other non-degradeable products out there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave Hanson Date: 19 Dec 03 - 10:23 AM Save time, pour hot water on the pot noodle and throw it straight in the Khazi, cut out the middle man. eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:11 AM I had a friend whose little Schnauser dogs ate the plastic beans from a bean bag - they nearly died - their droppings had littke white foam bits for ages... Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST,Davetnova Date: 19 Dec 03 - 03:49 AM Are there any good reasons why the spunwheat packing peanuts thrown out in such vast quantities can't be eaten? I've tasted them and they have a remarkablly similar taste to Quaker's Puffed Wheat, perhaps slightly sweeter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Ebbie Date: 19 Dec 03 - 02:30 AM Oaklet: "a mysterious tall Brazilian man once told me on a stormy night at sea on a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat during the early '70s." Foolstroupe said: I've never seen a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat! brucie: I've too have never seen an onion in a felt hat in the old Baltic. Gentlemen and lady, I too have been parsing the sentence. Talk about mysterious! But there is a grand cadence to it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Dec 03 - 12:04 AM Actually, brucie, at the moment, Aussie dollars are no longer Monopoly Money! Robin P.S. My pofile is up! er, that should be PROFILE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:57 PM GRAND THREAD TOPIC...John
Tell us more....
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:45 PM Any sort of "convenience pre-pak" food is a rip-off financially. The Supermarket chains only sell it because there is a higher profit margin than on scratch ingredients. Even worse, The Govt assumes that any person on any sort of "assistance" is always going to cook everything from scratch ingredients - so they don't factor in the extra cost of "convenience foods" - even a pie with peas at the corner shop... I admit that at times, one is not very capable of spending much time preparing pasta from scratch, then at thit time, one has probably already spent a considerable portion of one's finances on liquid nourishment, the digestion of which incidentally inhibits the digestion of all other nutrients untill one is sober. But there are other times when one is not in the best of health, and preparing food from scratch is a pain. The only solution is to prepare some stuff in small bulk and freeze it - but then you need the luxury of a decent freezer... and the time to prepare it. Robin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:44 PM I've too have never seen an onion in a felt hat in the old Baltic. Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember when Kraft Dinner was a buck a case (that's $1.00 American for 12 boxes). One dollar American today is like enough to pays the bills from the Marminator thread. It's about $87,326.41 Canadian or something. In British pounds, it's like lots, right? Anyway, there are easier ways to get noodles, and making them is one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:28 PM Oaklet I've never seen a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:10 PM I think I knew this was gonna be another BS, drunken JfH thread before I even opened it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: mg Date: 18 Dec 03 - 10:57 PM Oh you didn't say they were like Kraft dinners...that is the very food of the gods, which should be accompanied by the nectar of the gods, Coca Cola...if I am ever on death row and they say what do you want for dinner, that is what I will have. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST,Albert McSwiggins Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:42 PM Pot Noodles are me favourite snack...aside from snorkers, that is! You can't beat snorkers. The fing I like best about Pot Noodles is the way they raise me mental vibrations to a higher plane of thought. I become another Byron when I eat Pot Noodles. One day I intend to put togever a book o' deep thoughts and sell it to rich people like me recent employers. After that I intend to retire and visit Disney World in Florida. - Albert McSwiggins, sometime Gardener in Twillingsgate and environs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:27 PM Thank you Ed. I'm still confused, but no more so than is my normal state of consciousness. They don't sound that bad to me. No more so than the packages of ramen noodles that are sold here in the US. Ramen's not bad. It's not food either. But, if you toss a scrambled egg into it you can get something approximating food. What you UK folks need to do to develop a proper appreciation for your Pot Noodles is this: Book a flight from wherever you are to Atlanta, Georgia. When you arrive in Atlanta, hire a car and drive south from the airport on Interstate Highway 85 and exit at Flat Shoals Road. You will immediately see a yellow building with the words "Waffle House" on it. Go into the Waffle House and order a large serving of grits. Eat your grits, pay your bill, drive back to the airport and catch a flight back to the UK. Once home, you can eat your Pot Noodles with a new appreciation. Yes, there are other substances masquerading as food that are actually worse. (Did you notice the very cool way in which I said, "hire a car" instead of "rent a car"? Learning how to talk with you blokes, I am. Is that right? "Blokes"? You do call yourselves "blokes", don't you?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Bill D Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:26 PM well, never one to pass up research opportunities ...here is answer as to how much string/twine you'd need to collect to be competitive more here.. http://www.kansasphototour.com/twine.htm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:50 PM I think it's the same thing that is called "Kraft Dinner" in Canada...a cheap little box of dry noodles accompanied by a powdered cheese sauce in a little plastic package that you rip open. If you're really poor, you just boil the noodles and mix in the sauce with a little remaining water when the noodles are ready. If you're only moderately poor, you mix in a little milk with the sauce. It's the chosen homemade food of students and unemployed people in Canada. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Ed. Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:35 PM Bee-dubya-ell, What is a Pot Noodle? To answer that: You could re-read this thread, You could go to the Official Site, or you could listen to to the views of British Students |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:19 PM I really, really, really shouldn't even open these Anglocentric threads. Any time the subject line is indecipherable the rest of the thread can only exacerbate matters. I'm going to go hit myself in the head with a ball-peen hammer now to ease my confusion. Please make note of the tremendous restraint that I have exhibited in not saying WTF is a "pot noodle"???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Ed. Date: 18 Dec 03 - 03:51 PM Brilliant reseach, Dave! I've just been downstairs to the fridge, and had a look at a packet of Clover (butter/margarine type thing). For 79p, I bought a 250g pack. A whopping 1612kcal! That's an amazing 0.05p per kcal. I'll eat nothing else in future! And I'll be really rich! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: mg Date: 18 Dec 03 - 03:28 PM Yep..and if they are mostly white flour they are not good for your blood pressure. Read up on Syndrome X and insulin resistance and you will want to radically decrease your consumption of anything with white flour in it. If you work at the curry shop, how about some nice vegetables and meat and a small amount of rice...mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST,MMario Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:29 AM There you have it folk! Scientific PROOF that Pot Noodles are a rip off! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Dec 03 - 11:08 AM OK. Lets look at this logicaly. (Captain...) Taste is personal and subjective so we need to discount it in any analysis. Amount of fat, protein and carbohydrate could count but as different diets say different things we need to exclude those for the purpose of simple comparison. So, what are we left with. Simply, the energy or calorific value. So. John's Pot Noodle was 79p. I do not know what flavour it was but let us assume it was an 87g 'Nice'n'spicy' version with 381 kcal. We get a value of 381 / 79 = 0.21p per kcal. Let us now compare this base line to some other foods. I will endevour to keep within the bounds of what is eaten when 'the munchies strike' by using only conveniece foods btw! And Tesco was the easiest to navigate so I use their prices:-) 420 g Baked beans - 34p / 390kcal = 0.09p per kcal 6 x iced buns at 89p / 687kcal = 0.13p per kcal Peter's Regency Sausage roll 49p / 528kcal = 0.09p per kcal. Hmmmm. Based on the limited tests carried out here. Yes, John. I am afraid Pot Noddles are a rip off. Sorry. Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Dec 03 - 10:36 AM You can make your own noodles very easily, and then you'd have no grounds for complaint. I made ravioli for the kids a couple of weeks ago, we ate half then, and froze half. Don't cook them first if you're going to freeze them. Meanwhile, if you don't like those instant cups of noodles, the next best thing for fast noodles here is to swing by a Chinese restaurant and get a big cup of wonton to go. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Oaklet Date: 18 Dec 03 - 10:10 AM Don't believe that nonsense about adding hot water. I adore them dry - something that a mysterious tall Brazilian man once told me on a stormy night at sea on a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat during the early '70s. I was amazed and never went back to drowning the stuff in boiling water. I have saved to date, about £13.00 in electricity and an unknown smaller amount in wear-and-tear to my kettle. Saves on the washing up too: I reckon I have saved about 50p or more (about a hundred Canadian dollars or so) in water heating in order to unclog a succession of noodle-strewn, and dried-spice-bedecked claggy forks. Dry, Pot Noodles rival any foodstuff for taste and texture and one pot can last for up to 30 minutes. One pot is also as nutritious as a gramme-and-a-half of krill. So there. That's what I think that is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 18 Dec 03 - 10:02 AM Save yourself the money, cut out the middleman, stick your fingers down your throat.... **BG** RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Morticia Date: 18 Dec 03 - 09:48 AM they are only a rip off if you were expecting food.....or anything that could concievably come into that category. I think they have a bright new future as cavity wall insulation though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:52 AM You're not supposed to eat yellow snow!? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: GUEST,MMario Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:50 AM Students are well known for consuming, digesting and actually *liking* substances that in the outside world are used as paint thinners, construction materials and landfill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Sweetfia Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:42 AM Pot Noodles are gorge!!!! They are great if ya fancy somat to eat bt don't hav much time, a genius invention of ya ask me! But then i'm a atsudent so i prob wud say that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave Hanson Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:42 AM Possible new thread ' are pot noodles shite ' pot puke more like. eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: the lemonade lady Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:25 AM Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? NOOOOOOOOOOOO! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave Hanson Date: 18 Dec 03 - 06:41 AM Don't buy pot noodles equates with ' don't eat yellow snow ' eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Dave Bryant Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:25 AM Were they curry flavoured Pot Noodles, John9 ? Still that "Ball of String" contest could be a good idea, John9 - Goole is quite near you - Little Hawk must have looked at the map. The main reason that your doctor wants to you to reduce your blood pressure is that you keep squirting all the mercury out of the end of his sphygmomanometer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Catherine Jayne Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:22 AM John I agree with you, Pot Noodles are disgusting and a big rip off! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Mr Happy Date: 18 Dec 03 - 04:02 AM 79p!!That's a real rip off! Try Instant Noodles-only 9p. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: catspaw49 Date: 18 Dec 03 - 01:02 AM A special operation, free of charge, to give you a new navel to keep it in. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:50 PM waht yoiu win in the biggest string contest/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:47 PM Roll it all up in a ball. If the ball gets large enough that it is very difficult (or impossible) to get it out the front door, then enter it in the "Largest Ball of String in the World Contest", held annually in Goole, U.K. You may have to take out a wall to get the ball of string outside, but it's worth it for the promotional benefits that accrue. Then drive it to Goole in a suitable vehicle (truck or lorrie) and enter. If you don't win, take the thing home and keep adding to it, and try again the following year. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:44 PM anyway=i knoe waht to do with the string, i got an idea! i tie up the bad guest, and throew mouldy oranges, and tomatoes at him, i think they spell it tomatos in america, not sure really.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:41 PM oh, mabye thats why my blud presure is to high then?, i went to doctors before, for a medical, and hee said " maybe you die soon, youre blood pressure is very high, ", then he tell me " stop smokingf, stop drinhking, and do some kep fit" ps, waht do i do with all the string when i save it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:38 PM Spaw is absolutely right. Teaching pigs to dance is another great pastime, and far more rewarding. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:34 PM Well John, my first problem was to figure out what the fock a Pot Noodle" was.......After research, I find them to be the same thing we have here under a variety of names and by several different companies. Although I have not tried your Pot Noodle, based on my long term sampling of many here in the U.S. over the years, I would suggest the best generic name would be "Cup-O-Crap." They are one of those things that always seem like a good idea until you try them. That's why I have tried them so often over the years....kinda' in the hopes that I'd find one that edible. Most are so heavy on sodium that you can raise the blood pressure of a dead man by waving a cup of them over him. My best advice is save string. This makes more sense then eating Pot Noodles. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:22 PM I don't know. I don't smoke it either, so what would I know about noodles? |
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Subject: BS: Are Pot Noodles a big rip off? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 17 Dec 03 - 11:07 PM Quiote="have you checked the digi trad for this topic?" yes, ihave, it dident say nothing about it. anyway=hello, i just eat a pot noodle, it was rubbish, 79p, and dident even fill me up, and taste horrible, it was 79p, i dont know whyt i buy tehem, they are crap, waht you think.john |
