Ramen Noodles
03 October 2012
Wonderful fallish weather
RAMEN NOODLES
October 3, 2012
Yesterday, Bear was inventorying our stores to see what we might have for lunch when she came across a mostly empty large plastic bag. The bag contained three packages of Top Ramen Noodles®. The last time we purchased that product was in Marsh Harbor, Abacos in March 2011. Like Army C rations, those noodles are still edible. I am not sure what the shelf life of that product is but it must be well beyond the "best when consumed by" date. They represent a different mindset aboard Why Knot than we have now here on the Chesapeake. They are perhaps the only thing aboard that marks a particular place in time in the memory hard drive. Can anyone say that about a jar of mustard or even Ramen noodles in the pantry back home? I distinctly remember the day when I bought them for the boat being a perfect island day. I rode my folding circus bike to the only good sized food store in the Abacos and noticed that they had a huge display of noodles mid store. The case was $4.50 and that made this "just in case" food attractive. Heck, everyone likes a hot treat at 0300 on watch on some really dark night. Being about a cubic foot in size we decided to stow that case in a big plastic bag to keep them dry. Who knows how big that case of noodles would get if wet? Eighteen months later, we are down to the last two packages of those noodles which may well be the two packages in our future. We may have consumed a lifetime allotment of those noodles----- or not. Now for that can of Spam®, I wonder how long that will last in the food locker? Don't go "yuck", some of us actually like Spam.
The picture is of three concrete ducks or is it geese at a pond on Solomons Island that are dressed according to the weather