Does ramen taste different?

This is the lounge, which is off subject material, right?

I made a packet of ramen with chicken flavoring (they recently changed their packaging) and it just looked and tasted different. When I boiled the noodles, the water was 10x murkier than it usually is, and it was a weird, gross looking color.

Am I going crazy?

 

The ramen has spoken. You are hereby insane.

 

Oh dear... I better grab my pencil and notepad before I get sent off

 

You can't bring a pencil.

 

But.. but.. How would I keep myself and all the other inmates entertained?

 

It's simple. Bring a pen.

 

Why are pens allowed and pencils aren't?

 

It is not a mental hospital. It is a mental hospital.

 

No, it's a metal hospital, and thus wooden pencils are not allowed.

 

You mean...

 

This thread reminds me of India's noodle ban.

 

What brand? There are several aren't there?

 

I'm going to spell this wrong, but.. Maruchan? The basic Ramen brand in the orange plastic wraps haha

 

I can't find anything immediately online suggesting an ingredient change in that brand, but I did find a couple sources swearing Sapporo Ichiban might be a tastier brand.

 

Okay. So that's what I thought you were going to say.

I've been very confused, because I haven't seen any of the variation in flavors that I used to ... only chicken or beef. And yeah, it tastes different, and I always thought the packaging looked off. Then I realized that this is the brand in grocery stores now, but I think the brand I remember from 1995-2000ish was actually this one:

(shrimp flavor was my favorite as a weird adolescent )

I'm not a Ramen connoisseur or anything, but back in the day these guys were like, 40 for a dollar, and my mom was a single mom. So lots of Ramen.

 

I have lots of Ramen in my earthquake food supply.

 

Well, this is interesting. I buy a Morrison's own brand ramen, and yes, they have recently changed theirs as well. Chicken flavour, weird colour. It's actually rather unpleasant, so I've started using half a Kallo brand organic chicken stock cube instead of the flavour packet inside the ramen container.

 

Having recently graduated from college, I will share with you the two things I've learned during my time there: (1) Beer is both a staple food and one of the three macronutrients alongside pizza and Maruchan Ramen; and (2) If a package of Maruchan Ramen looks bad, throw it out, unless it only looks the normal amount of bad, in which case I'd still recommend buying a different brand.