I live in a college town. Because of this fact, I'm fairly certain that the local consumption of Ramen Noodles is about 100 times the normal level.
It's a meal at 10 cents a pop — warm, convenient and cheap. And horribly, horribly refined, processed and coated in salt. The nutritional value you get for those 10 cents isn't even worth the dime — which can get you an hour of time in some of our downtown parking meters (Screw dinner, more time to shop!).
But I was a poor student once, I understand the appeal. A lot cheaper than organic produce, vitamins be damned. Instead of "I'll sleep when I'm dead" it's "I'll get vitamins when I graduate." Been there, done that, and happily getting my vitamins as we speak.
That said, I had to post about Ramen after seeing what one Korean artist did with his little bricks of 10-cent noodles. And when I say bricks, I mean bricks!
Something of beauty made out of something only a poor college student could love.
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