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took me a long time to realise what Americans meant by ramen. Especially when they considered it low budget food. Instant noodles are not really ramen
Do you call frozen pizza? Or is it instant pepperoni pie? Why do you have to gate keep word?
Says ramen right on the package bro
yeah that’s the weird part
I assume it’s a regional thing. “Instant ramen” are noodles or 2 minute noodles here. It’s rarely labelled as ramen and never called it.
From childhood I knew about ramen from anime and I knew about instant ramen from American media but I didn’t learn until later that they aren’t the same thing and instant reman is just 2 minute noodles.