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Hi, ...

markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:
> 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 what is the "TV dinners?"  I once heard about such stuff
somewhere, but I'm not sure.  Does it mean a plate which you can
put into an oven as a whole?  Isn't it a kind of frozen foods?

> 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.

    Hm, these difference between Japan and USA is perhaps due to the
fact that most of us Japanese do not have large gas ovens, nor large
refrigerator in which we can put large volume of frozen foods.  Shall
we start yet another "refrigerator" therad?  Oops, it's spelling is
far too difficult for me to memorize!

> 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.

    But... I feel that preparing humburger from raw fresh materials
(that is, mince, onion, bread, milk, egg) are quite easy!  Oh, or
is it difficult to obtain mincemeat in USA?  You have to mince meat
yourself?

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

    You can purchase a transparent and elastic plastic cover.
It is used to guard your keyboard from ash (when you are a
smoker), but you can used that for your own purpose :-)

							Yasushi Kuno