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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

marx would be addicted to balatro

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for Marx to call me a petite bourgeoisie for preferring nongshim shin ramyun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Enjoy your capitalist excess, class traitor!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Gaihs, I'm not even joking, I've just hoovered up 3 of these and a bag of kimchi. I feel like a bag of shit but it was totally worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I've done so too (white packets, the one with soy sauce" no regerts.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Indomie is literally the worlds greatest brand of noodles, top marks for Marx.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

This is Shin slander

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

White and green flavours are peak cuisine 🔥

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's Your opinion on Buldak?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Cheese should stay the fuck away from noodles. And the spicy ones sadly have no actual flavour behind the heat.

You asked for my hot takes on Buldak, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This take is so hot it could melt the Parmesan on my pasta, the cheddar in my mac and cheese, and the cottage cheese on my polish noodles

(I agree with you about most noodles, though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm eating ramen with a slice of American cheese in it right now and there is not a THING either of you can do about it!

Cheese goes on everything, fight me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

American cheese doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Pshaw, dunk rejected! American cheese is a better product and better cheese than most give it credit for! Wish I still had the wall of text I stumbled onto that helped me see the light, I'll never do it justice.

But basically it's cheese with an emulsifier built-in, which was a true innovation when it was introduced. And that's why it melts so easily - you can even add some to other cheeses to get them to be more melty and gooey! American cheese makes other cheeses more cheesy - that's a solid W with nothing else needed.

But I mean...it's also, just self-evidently, incontrovertibly - the best cheese for a cheeseburger. I will fight IRL over this lol.

That other comment or post I'm thinking of went into the "grades" of it, and how much actual cheese is or isn't in some varieties, but I don't remember those details sadly.

Edit: punctuation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If we don't like it, that just means more for you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't be silly, pasta is pasta, mac and cheese is pasta, and polish noodles are pasta.

Noodles is noodles not pasta.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Shrimps is bugs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yes, indeed I did. While I see Your point, the carbonara Buldak is heaven in Your mouth. Then hell in your asshole, but that's a different subject.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dear Fred, I need money for Indomie.

Your K.M

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Seize the means of production [of indomie]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

The boyfriend saw a video of a Michelin star chef preparing the ramen he prefers best, and it's a package of champagetti and a package of shin and I gotta tell you... Fucking delicious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck. Now I need to go out and buy some.

Hard to get here, but had it a couple times and it ruined other instant noodles for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Really? We have it everywhere in my country. I guess it isn't as popular as outside of asia? Since it's practically synonymous with "noodles" here :DD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have to go to the special asian supermarkets that do their own importing to find it. The asian section at a generic grocer is just a bunch of Mama and Nissin. If you're lucky there's some Ajinomoto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Kroger has both the regular and spicy version of it in my area of Ohio

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

i believe mr. marx is a cool guy ~

i think he'd be fun to talk to ~ <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What would you want to talk to him about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

oh, id ask him bout

  • current gouvernment implementation (includin social democracy) n ask him whad he thinks bout em ~ <3
    • also how we cn motivate peeps to actualli do som real revolution for once, since thad might be a possibiliti, cuz young peeps lik myself r rather left leanin, as seen here in the german elections with peeps under 18 years old

with the biggest portion being "the left" which,,.... r vrri left. but also sadli lik 15 percent som fascists with the "afd" ;( i believe (spd is alsuu left,, but more... center... but still left! lik - mor than the american democrats, certainly!) i believe we cn do revolution with the youth! <3 the elderly voted like - 4% for the left ;(

  • the foss
  • currnt state of capitalism, n how to make evn not young peeps see how things r clearly messed up, n thad sof corrections will not make billionars share their capital...
    • i wan to discuss with him how we cn get the gud out of the human! how to stop forcing peeps into this thought of "moni is evrithin", for exampl, by stoppin to treat it lik its "the ultimate reward"! we humans shud not care bout the moni, but what we cn GET with the moni! nice holidays! restaurant weekend with family! maybe getting materials to build a cool lil garden into backyard! <3
  • i wud ask him how his day was <3 🌄💖
  • whad he thinks of the llms n the ai in general... (probably largely positive, as some models rlli cn automate work, which, in fully automated gay space communism, would lead to even less human work bein required, which is gud! bt sadly we dun live in this world.. ;( we hav to fear livin on the street cuz evil companies can "optimize you away"... ;( )
  • i wud totally ask him if he has any questions, cuz im sure we cn get into mor intrstng conversations thad, way, cuz yea, my mind is still vrri much this:

visual representation of my mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SPD is center and conservative, CDU is on the right to far right, AFD are fascists. So half of the young people voted for right-leaning to outward fascist parties. (Last Bundestagswahl young people also heavily voted for the FDP.)

I bet this has to do with the divide of young cis men and everyone else. But young people certainly aren't only voting for the left in Germany!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yes i kno, fine, u win, r u happy now? ;(

i like to dream... ;(

big sad.... but what has anything to do with the divide of cis men?... i rlli dun get whad ur sayin with anythin...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, AFD are especially advertising to young men and cis men are much more likely to have conservative values (because they benefit them much more). On the other hand, we have the leftwing emancipatory parties such as Die Linke that are inclusive of everyone else and that probably get more votes of marginalized people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

oh.... i didn kno thad. ive heart of the afd peeps bein vrri active on the tiktok and stuff, evn my social studies teacher, who is in some form part of that party, does tiktok streams.

so guess that is part of that very specific advertising...

i like to imagine that most cis guys r reasonable, not selfish and actually pretty nice (and thus, non afd voters).

so.... if the lefties made som good ads which target... lik - those peeps too... mayb thad wud work out....

also, who in their right mind is still voting for cdu?... merkel seemed like a nice person, but .... merz? yea naw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Spicy flavor represent!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Lies, Marx would prefer Shin Ramyun