OK. This is pasta, not noodles. What's the difference? Noodles are a form of pasta, and on the whole there isn't much difference. Noodles are a particular shape of pasta; long and thin, such as spaghetti, fettuccine, or tagliatelle - though noodles can also be shaped. Pasta tends to be made of better quality ingredients, such as duram wheat - a very hard wheat, and contain egg. But, really, it's simply different traditions for essentially the same thing - so that something like chnöpfli can be called noodles or pasta. Put simply - pasta is a European tradition, centred on Italy; noodles are an Asian tradition.
The instructions say use a standard mug. Our mugs must be larger than normal because this ended up as a pasta soup rather than a pasta coated in a rich sauce. The chicken is real - well, they threw a live chicken into a plane propeller and caught the bits; if that counts as real. Anyway, for those - like me -who don't eat chickens, dead or alive, I kind of wish food companies paid attention to the difference between "flavour" and "flavoured". "Flavour" means it tastes of that product, but does not actually contain that product. Proper in-noods are synthetically flavoured. "Flavoured" means it gets it's flavour from the actual product. So: "Flavoured with chicken" compared to "flavour of chicken". See? Simples.
I didn't enjoy this product. Needed salt. And it was actual chicken. For fucks sake.
Made by Symington's, who also make such delights as Chicken Tonight and the overpriced ponsy vomit that is Naked Noodle Poodle.
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