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[ls650]

I saw someone mention this article over on thorntree.lonelyplanet.com and I thought folks here might find it interesting...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ramennation21oct21,0,215135.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Check out the nutritional chart at the bottom of the article...

[Guy Courchesne]

Beans and rice for me, as long as there is a salsa que pique

I'm almost off my Kraft Dinner addiction, though whenever my mother comes down, she brings me a crate.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

Definitely beans & rice for me. I've tried the ramen noodles in the styrofoam cup (mocrowave) a few times. Although I don't mind the taste, for me it's like trying to digest a small bag of cement. As for mac & cheese, not from a box, please. It's gotta be homemade.

[Cdaniels]

My ex always insisted that beans and rice together formed a "complete protein." Somehow they complimented eachother nutritionally. I never figured out what that means exactly, but it sounds very important.

[Guy Courchesne]

[MELEE]

I always heard that it was beans, rice and corn. But recently learned that this sort of "protien building" for veg diets which came into vogue in the 70s with the book "Diet for a small planet" which was meant to prove that veg diets were healthy(can have as much protien as meateaters), inadvertantly it proved they were complicated , but 20 years later with more research the author and her daughter came out with something like "New Diet for a Small Planet" it's now known that its a lot easier because we absorb plant protien better so while most veggies eat a lot less protien than meateaters, more protien makes it into the system.

Instant Ramen is gross (nothing like the real stuff) same goes for instant mac and cheese, and (for me) one of the saddest parts of living in Mexico is seeing ramen work its way into the diet of poor (and not so poor) Mexicans There are so many inexpensive traditional foods that are actually nutricious.

[lozwich]

MMMMMMM Beans n rice.

I especially like singing the Spearhead song "Red beans n rice" while I'm making them.

MMMMM

You can read the lyrics here.

[Guy Courchesne]

Awright, fess up. Who voted for the Ramen noodles?

[ls650]

Not me. Some of my co-workers complain about the prevalence of rice n beans here, but with a little salsa and some tortillas it can be yummy.
I can't stand those noodle cups; the MSG gives me migraines.

[Cdaniels]

[MixtecaMike]

Ramen noodles (Ramyeon here) is actually Korea's second national food. It comes in a styrofoam cup, plate, plastic bag, you can heat them up at most corner stores, they are served in restaurants (but not in styrofoam) you can get them as a dry snack, when the kids finish a book they have a snack party and the classroom smells of chillipepper soup and spilled ramyeon.

I certainly didn't vote for them in this poll, although I can't say rice and beans would make a very exciting staple diet it would beat ramyeon noodles. Maybe alternating beans n rice with kimchi fried rice would be better.

Although the kraft mac n cheeze is pretty darn tasty, too.

[hlamb]

I saw Kraft Dinner in one of the big grocery stores here and bought it, but it wasn't the same as the stuff in Canada. I think the cheese was different...despite my mild addiction to kd I prefer beans and rice.

[Gregor]

I wish I could vote for beans and rice. Maybe if the salsa's really good and really spicy, that would be the way to go.
And, in Mexico, tortillas are always cheap. I just don't like the texture of beans, though.

I like the flavor of ramen, but I, too, have trouble digesting it, and it's unbelievably bad for you. I mean, I really did find it difficult to believe when I was first told, but my research proves it out.

I really do like Kraft Dinners, but isn't that WAY more expensive than beans and rice, even including the tortillas and salsa? I'm talking about there in Mexico...

[MixtecaMike]

Anything with MSG in it is delicious.

Don't believe that stuff about it it being bad for you, it's a hippie plot to sell their overpriced organic stuff, full of weevils and moth holes.

Combined with a racist plot to undermine Chinese restaurant owners everywhere.

I have it on a reliable source that the people who shot Abe Lincoln, JR Ewing, Martin Luther King Jr and also many of the Spanish Inquisitors only ate MSG-free foods. Can you see a pattern emerging here?

[Guy Courchesne]