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Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

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The Incredible Market Effectiveness of Ramen Noodles

The dried noodles are then reinvigorated with boiling water and a little bit of flavor. It can be reconstituted very easily and once it was invented it was easy to manufacture. You can, manufacturing plants, rung up in places like Indonesia and India which you might expect as well as Japan but then Nepal, Nepal as a centre exporting ramen noodles to India. I mean that really surprised me when I realized about it but it has been a huge success.

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