Until very recently, ramen was sold in the United States as an imported food. In the past year, however, ramen has been embraced by American food manufactures as staple product, and has been diversified into numerous niches. Among these are low-fat ramen, vegetarian ramen, and baby ramen. Other, more standard flavors include beef, pork, chicken (which, until the advent of vegetable ramen, was the only ramen vegetarians could eat), squid, and "Oriental".
To give you a better feel for what ramen is, here are a few choice words from the back of the ramen package bianca just downed:
Ramen:-- a quick and delicious alternative for egg noodles, pasta or rice - for a side dish, main entree or casserole - serve with sauce, specially seasoned or plain with butter - perfect with meat, fist, poultry or vegetables - it can be a hearty soup...
Yes, ramen is all this and more. Here are the ingredients:....
Hmm.... nevermind. Perhaps it's better you don't know.