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Chapter 16: El Triste.
Midnight Burger
The Importance of Dry Noodles
On my home planet, there's this thing called top ramen. It's dry noodles and a packet of flavoring. You can get them for 50 cents each. What a lot of people don't know is that the reason why there's dirt cheap noodles at any store is because one day, a long time ago, two nuclear bombs were detonated on an island called Japan. Thousands of people died in an instant. And in the aftermath, thousands more were going to die of sickness and starvation. One man had an idea to send bricks of dry noodles with a pack of flavoring to anyone who was hungry. They knew they weren't going to starve. On the island of Jamaica, they
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