Like eating strips of plastic. Faint savoury dish water flavour that hints at fake chicken flavour, but doesn't quite assert it. Not good.
Score: 2
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Monday, 29 September 2014
A-One Instant Rice Noodles Chicken Flavor
Like eating strips of plastic. Faint savoury dish water flavour that hints at fake chicken flavour, but doesn't quite assert it. Not good.
Score: 2
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Batchelors Cup a Noodle Spicy Sweet & Sour
Typical bland British noodles - these are quite small, which makes them feel like an addition to the recipe, rather than central. The sauce is sweet tomato with some vinegar and an overall spicy warmth. It's edible, but feels wrong, as though something were missing. It's like eating warmed up ketchup - it's edible, but not quite right.
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Friday, 19 September 2014
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Batchelors Cup a Noodle Chicken
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Indomie Chicken Flavour
Stodgy and bland. Edible, but why bother? Plenty of better noodles out there. This is like Super Noodles. Each to their own, and I suppose if you're a fat slob with no palate you'll actually like these. The rest of us will look for something a little better tasting.
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Monday, 15 September 2014
Nissin Demae Ramen Japanese Noodlesoup Spicy
Excellent value for money. Tasty noodles with a flavoursome and spicy sauce - warm but not too hot, just right for me. Flavours are not well defined - savoury, with some peanut butter and sesame seed oil notes. But good enough for me.
Score: 6
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Tuesday, 9 September 2014
ASDA Chosen By You Curry Flavour Noodles (packet)
Compared with ASDA Smart Price Curry Flavour Instant Noodles (packet); the Smart Price tasted more of curry. Other than that, there isn't much difference. Both made in China, both contain chicken. These Chosen By You noodles are 28p for 85g, while the smart price are 20p for 65g, which is slighter cheaper per g. However, if you buy four packs of Chosen By You, there is a deal, which makes them cheaper than the Smart Price. Go figure.
Given the choice, I would go for the Smart Price as the slightly better tasting. But neither are impressive. Neither are worth the money. And both contain chicken. Why?
Score: 2 Date: Sept 2014
I rarely go to ASDA since moving to Southampton, so when we in the shop this week I grabbed some of their own brand noodles to check how they were getting on. I had forgotten just how bad they where, and that they contain chicken powder. Bad. Bad. Bad. Never again......
Score: 1 Date: Dec 2015
I clearly have a poor memory. I'm in ASDA, so I give these mothers another try. Blurgh. Wish I hadn't. Chemical toilet cleaner flavour in an otherwise wish-washy sauce. And it contains dried chicken powder. ASDA suck arse. Big time.
Score: 0 Date: June 2017
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Monday, 8 September 2014
Blue Dragon Noodle Wok Sweet Chilli Chicken flavour
76g for around £1.40. Lots of packets: flavourings, noodles, dried veg, etc, so a fiddle to make, and the end result is not impressive (I am not a fan of dried veg, which I find have a chewy plastic texture, and bits get stuck in the teeth), but you do get a useful blue bowl.
Veggie ingredients. Sweet chilli sauce is spicy, but not aggressive.
Overall, this is OK, but it's not that tasty, and it's a rather pricy.
Score: 3
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Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Sainsbury's Tomato & Herb Flavour Pasta
61g. Made in the UK. Veggie. Nothing special, but soft, comforting and edible. Good tomato flavour. Nice firm pasta. Needs a little salt.
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Friday, 29 August 2014
Batchelors Deli Box Noodles Chicken Flavour
Stodgy stuff. It's edible, but it's crap. Just like all other Batchelors products. Super Noodles are crap, Cup a Noodle are crap, and these Deli Box noodles are crap. Made in the UK. Contains dead chicken. Epic fail.
Date: Aug 2014 Score: 1
No longer contains chicken, but remains stodgy and bland.
Date: Sept 2017 Score: 1
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Thursday, 28 August 2014
Batchelors
Batchelors were formed in 1895 by a tea salesman, William Batchelor. Initially they sold tinned peas, but then moved into dried soups. They make Cup a Soup. They are owned by Premier Foods, who have bought up several other famous British brands, such as Oxo, Hovis, Sharwoods and Cadbury.
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| Cup a Noodle Mild Curry Score: 2 |
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| Deli Box Noodles Sweet & Sour Score: 2 |
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| Deli Box Noodles Chicken Flavour Score: 1 |
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| Deli Box Noodles Chow Mein Score: 1 |
Batchelors Cup a Noodle Mild Curry
Tastes like rehydrated pasta and veg soup. Rather British Butlins holiday camp tasting. There's not much of it - only 46g. Most of your money (81p) goes on the plastic pot. Not a good experience. Made in the UK. No meat.
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Tesco noodles
Tesco is the major British supermarket chain. It is now multinational, and is the second largest retailer in the world. It was founded as an unnamed market stall in Hackney in 1919 by Jack Cohen - the Tesco name came in 1924, when Cohen sold teas from a supplier with the initials TES, and he added the Co from his own name. The first Tesco store was opened in 1929 in Edgware.
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Everyday Value Spicy Curry Flavour Noodles (pot)Score: 3 |
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Tesco Everyday Value Chicken & Mushroom Flavour Noodles |
Cheap and mumsy. UK made. No chicken. Score: 2. Price 35p for a 70g cup.
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Tesco Everyday Value Curry Flavour Instant Noodles |
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Shanghai Garden Instant Curry Flavour Noodles |
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Tesco Instant Noodles Chicken Flavour |
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Tesco Everyday Value Chicken Flavour Instant Noodles |
Friday, 18 July 2014
Vina Acecook Hao Hao Hot-Sour Shrimp Flavour
Made in Vietnam by Vina Acecook "with Japanese Technology". Well, that makes me feel safe. Acecook are the leading noodle maker in Vietnam - the company name is Acecook Vietnam, but for global operations they switch to Vina Acecook - the Vina being short for VIetNAm. The company was formed in 1993.
42p for 75g from tradewindsorientalshop.co.uk. Decent noodles, quite small, heading toward vermicelli, which is fine by me. Sauce is OK. Nothing special, but flavoursome enough. Good heat - not excessive. Veggie ingredients. An all round acceptable packet. Nothing special, but good enough to eat again.
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014
ASDA
ASDA is a leading British supermarket chain, which can trace its origin back to the 1920s when a group of Yorkshire dairy farmers clubbed together to share pasteurising equipment, and to better market and distribute their milk. Originally called Hindell's Dairy Farmers Ltd, after a series of acquisitions they went public in 1949 under the name Associated Dairies & Farm Stores. In 1965 Associated Dairies merged with a Leeds based butchers and supermarket company, Asquiths, to form ASDA. Asquith was at the forefront of the emerging discount supermarket business, and ASDA were led by by the Asquith family, so Associated Dairies' money and resources were used to expand the supermarket side of things, until eventually retailing took over completely. The company was bought by the American owned Wal-Mart in 1999. It is Britain's third largest supermarket chain, with a focus on low prices and customer service in huge out of town premises.
The chain sells regular (Chosen by you) and budget (Smart Price) own brand noods in both packet and pot form. Sometimes they state the country of origin (China) and sometimes they don't - but the ones not marked with country of origin are highly likely to come from Asia. Some, regardless of the flavour, contain chicken, and some, even though it might say chicken flavour, don't contain any meat. It appears to be fairly random. There isn't a big difference in either price or quality between the regular and budget brands. The regular has stronger colours on the packaging, and slightly more assertive flavouring, but not much. Though cheap, these are not good value noods, and there is nothing much in their favour. Unoriginal flavours, and bland tasting. You can do better elsewhere. Indeed, pretty much anywhere else.
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ASDA Smart Price Curry Flavour Noodle Snack (pot) |
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Hard, characterless noodles. Thin sauce with a mild onion and parsley flavour. Needs seasoning. Veggie. Made in the UK
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ASDA Beef Flavour NoodlesScore: 2 |
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ASDA Chicken Flavour Noodles |
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ASDA Smart Price Curry Flavour Instant Noodles (packet) |
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