Are packet noodles a snack or a meal?

[bellaozzydog]

Original size or big boy size?

Personally if I’m having a pot noodle I’m having two

They aren’t really meal food I see them as a liquid soggy equivalent to a bag of crisps

 

[danny la rouge]

Anyway, packet noodles. I don’t like them. They seem to be the wrong kind of carbs. Very mushy. Like they’re already broken down into sugars. I don’t really know how to explain it, it’s just a feeling I get from them. I’m not a fan of noodles at all, to be honest.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Anyway, packet noodles. I don’t like them. They seem to be the wrong kind of carbs. Very mushy. Like they’re already broken down into sugars. I don’t really know how to explain it, it’s just a feeling I get from them. I’m not a fan of noodles at all, to be honest.

Yeah, if I want a noodle meal then spaghetti better than packet noodles.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Dinner is the meal you have when in the daytime, tea is the meal you have in the evening

Depends where you live!
Here, tea is a drink. Afternoon tea is tea and cakes. Dinner is the evening meal.

 

[Orang Utan]

Depends where you live!
Here, tea is a drink. Afternoon tea is tea and cakes. Dinner is the evening meal.

This is not the thread to discuss these things endlessly - this has been done to death elsewhere

 

[Yossarian]

A meal, ideally with an egg or some fish balls or whatever added

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Alright, Pogo

 

[Orang Utan]

Alright, Pogo

Not at all. You’re welcome to start a new thread - knock yourself out

 

[ElizabethofYork]

This is not the thread to discuss these things endlessly - this has been done to death elsewhere

Sorry your Majesty.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry your Majesty.

forgiven.
now back away, pleb

 

[andysays]

If you had “lunch ladies” at school, fair enough. But we had “dinner ladies”.

That said, I think I’m like maomao ’s parents now: I seem to have breakfast, lunch and tea. These are clearly the end times. What has become of me?

Yes of course. It’s when it is, not what it is

We had dinner ladies when I was at school in south London, and they served us dinner - made up of a first course of meat, veg and potatoes, and a second course of pudding, in other words something which could have been the main meal of the day.

I don't eat that size of meal in the middle of the day now, I have a sandwich and a piece of fruit, and maybe a packet of crisps or a bit of chocolate if I'm feeling extravagant. I call that meal lunch, and my main meal, which I eat in the evening, dinner.

Calling it dinner just because you eat in the middle of the day sounds ridiculous to me.

 

[neonwilderness]

Super noodles maybe. There are decent ones. I'm liking these at the moment.

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These (usually the tonkotsu or sesame ones) are a regular lunch dinner when WFH. Usually with a load of veg and something like chorizo thrown in to bulk it out into a meal. I'd be a bit of a faff, but I guess on their own they could be considered a snack.

 

[ska invita]

no point in arguing about it.
Different strokes innit

Im not arguing
YOU ARE WRONG

 

[Magnus McGinty]

We had dinner ladies when I was at school in south London, and they served us dinner - made up of a first course of meat, veg and potatoes, and a second course of pudding, in other words something which could have been the main meal of the day.

I don't eat that size of meal in the middle of the day now, I have a sandwich and a piece of fruit, and maybe a packet of crisps or a bit of chocolate if I'm feeling extravagant. I call that meal lunch, and my main meal, which I eat in the evening, dinner.

Calling it dinner just because you eat in the middle of the day sounds ridiculous to me.

So your evening meal was lunch?

 

[ska invita]

This is not the thread to discuss these things endlessly - this has been done to death elsewhere

Dont wriggle out of it now

 

[andysays]

So your evening meal was lunch?

No, my evening meal was tea

 

[Numbers]

I more often than not only eat once a day, at breakdintea time.

 

[A380]

no point in arguing about it.
…

So arguments on here need a point? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

 

[JimW]

I see them as a liquid soggy equivalent to a bag of crisps

They sell a version designed to be eaten dry like crisps as i think kids were doing it anyway

 

[Orang Utan]

Dont wriggle out of it now

I’m not, just bored of having the same old pointless semantic to-and-fros

 

[Orang Utan]

So arguments on here need a point? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Not when we’re pointlessly arguing about something else!

 

[Epona]

I more often than not only eat once a day, at breakdintea time.

As it's you, don't you mean Sangwich Time

 

[jontz01]

They're an ingredient. Without heaps of veg and a selection of protein, they're no different to a soggy piece of bread in hot salt water.

 

[Orang Utan]

They're an ingredient. Without heaps of veg and a selection of protein, they're no different to a soggy piece of bread in hot salt water.

Broth more like, they do have flavourings

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Broth flavoured crisps.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've just stopped by to say that people who call their main meal of the day to be eaten in the evening "supper" (as in "kitchen supper") need stringing up from the nearest lamppost.

Byeeeee

 

[Elpenor]

They sell a version designed to be eaten dry like crisps as i think kids were doing it anyway

I’ve tried them

 

[Elpenor]

I've just stopped by to say that people who call their main meal of the day to be eaten in the evening "supper" (as in "kitchen supper") need stringing up from the nearest lamppost.

Byeeeee

 

[jontz01]

Broth more like, they do have flavourings

My point still stands.

Empty carb in salt water. Not a meal, barely a snack.

 

[Orang Utan]

My point still stands.

Empty carb in salt water. Not a meal, barely a snack.

Not really, it’s deffo a snack.
And if you’re going to mention one seasoning then you have to acknowledge the others. So it’s a noodle soup, whether a snack or a meal.