Reply #71: Interesting. When my dad was a college student, he ate a lot of a [View All]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

cheap vegetable, a type of green, sort of spinachy with hollow crispy shoots. Don't know the name in English, but it's good steamed or stir fried, in soup or whatever. He ate a ton of this and has a hard time eating it sometimes now. I love it and think it's great, lol, because I have no such association.

My sophomore roomie and I bought a whole big carton of ramen-type noodles. Every night around 10ish we'd make some with our little water hot pots. Did this for like a solid semester. I have a hard time looking at ramen noodles sometimes now, even though they're pretty good.

Adding a poached egg to it, slices of pork, hot sauce etc. are all good things to spice up the ramen...