A bit painful to read when so many in our region will eat cup ramen tonight, but an inspiration for the future.
It descends upon us every October like a sexy fog nature's way of imploring humans to attach themselves to other humans like erotic limpets so we don't have to spend winter alone eating cup of noodles in a snood.
In Japan, the dish was embraced widely as a practical emergency food after a live television broadcast of a hostage standoff, seen by almost ninety per cent of television viewers, showed policemen eating cupped ramen in sub-zero temperatures as they waited for the hostage to be released.
True, genius is not really a word that one associates with a 40-year-old who has a penchant for boasting that she has "the butt of a 22-year-old stripper", or announcing "I would rather die than let my kids eat Cup-a-Soup".
And more than one parent has bristled when they hear Paltrow talk about her "no McDonald's" policy for her kids or say things such as "I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can," and "I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup".
We've all eaten pudding cups as kids, packed lovingly in our lunches by parents who had no idea what they were feeding us.
20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you".
You can get almost your full daily dose by eating 1 cup of an iron-fortified cereal; other great sources include white beans (4 milligrams per one-half cup) and sautéed fresh spinach (3 milligrams per one-half cup).
He takes a sip out of it and then he eats the cup.
"He was just walking in, eating a cup of fruit," he said.
"If the package says your dog should be eating a cup a day, that's what they should get.
