• dektep@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    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

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      12 hours ago

      Do you call frozen pizza? Or is it instant pepperoni pie? Why do you have to gate keep word?

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      18 hours ago

      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.