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In article <1992Jul20.084920.20474@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp> kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:


   Hi, ...

Howdy!!

   davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) says:
   > Ladies my laugh when they hear about this kind of "cooking" but,
   > hey, it tastes great!

       Well, I suspect that most kind of instant foods (I don't know if
   such words are used in U.S.) are invented in Japan.  Right?  

Maybe so, but I think TV dinners must be the original "instant food."
Certainly cumbersome by today's standards of what is instant, but back
when they were invented... (Don't TV Dinners date back to the '50s?)

                                                            I know
   that instant lamen and CupNoodle (TM of Nisshin-Foods co.)  are
   invented in Japan.  You have mentiond about instant tsuyu, and
   mabo-tofu.  I understand that frozen foods and canned foods (yes! I
   love Campbell soup, especially minestrone) are more popular in USA.
   Right?  By the way, I wish we could buy big frozen cherry pie in our
   supermarket!  (But note that I'm not at all twin-peaks fan.)

Frozen things that you can pop in the microwave are pretty much the
standard in instant foods over here. Many brands of instant ramen are
also available (including nissin) but nowhere near as popular here as in
Japan. There are also semi-instant foods over here. Hamburger Helper is
pretty common. You just brown some hamburger in a pan, drain the grease
then add water and the contents of the box (usually a powdered sauce mix
and some pasta or dried potatoes) and let it simmer a while. There are
also "fresh pastas." These generally sell the sauce and the pasta
separately so you can pick and choose. (I like the cheese tortellini
with the alfredo sauce. :-) ) Boil the pasta for 5 - 7 minutes and heat
the sauce in the microwave. Throw together a green salad and brown some
ready made garlic bread in the oven and you have a taken a big step up
from instant ramen, without a TOO much work.

Maybe we should drop this thread, I keep drooling on my keyboard!!

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