{"id":11876,"date":"2022-01-02T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:32:17","slug":"space-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/02\/space-ramen\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/yakisoba-noodles-for-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Debrief<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RAMEN NOODLES ARE THE PERFECT SPACE FOOD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/author\/cristina-gomez\/\">CRISTINA GOMEZ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NS-1.jpg\" alt=\"Yakisoba Noodles for Astronauts\"\/><figcaption><em>Instant flavored noodles, and rice meals for astronauts. Image Credit: Sora \/ Nissin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides being a staple of \u201cCollege Life\u201d globally, instant noodles in their many varieties are easily one of the most popular and convenient&nbsp; \u2018on-the-run\u2019 meals that get turned to when the hunger kicks in. And now they\u2019re on the menu for those in orbit on the International Space Station.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.jp\/en\/features\/article_26971\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nissin is producing UFO brand Yakisoba noodles<\/a>&nbsp;for astronauts, with \u2018space ramen\u2019 as a tasty instant meal alternative to be eaten alongside the best view of our planet from space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan ranks as the fifth nation of the highest consumers of instant noodles, and even has August 25 pegged as an annual \u201cInstant Ramen Day.\u201d It\u2019s on that day that it\u2019s encouraged to remember August 25, 1958, as the day that Nissin Foods released the now famous Chicken Ramen, the world\u2019s first instant noodle product that would go on to be a favorite in kitchens, restaurants, cafes, college canteens, and even camping sites, everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018instant noodles\u2019 meal exploded in popularity and very quickly came with an ever-increasing amount of flavor options. It was cheap to buy, simple to prepare, and was good with practically any flavor variation you could think of. At the time, Japan was growing economically, experiencing a boom in productivity and profitability known as the \u201chigh increase economic miracle.\u201d Basically, the cities were swelling with workers coming in from rural areas and in everything from consumer electronics to vehicle sales and exports, Japan was in an explosive phase of economic growth where fast food such as instant noodles would power workers on long shifts with minimum downtime due to eating breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/yakisoba-noodles-for-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Debrief<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Debrief RAMEN NOODLES ARE THE PERFECT SPACE FOOD by CRISTINA GOMEZ Besides being a staple of \u201cCollege Life\u201d globally, instant noodles in their many varieties are easily one of the most popular and convenient&nbsp; \u2018on-the-run\u2019 meals that get turned to when the hunger kicks in. And now they\u2019re on the menu for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}