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Batchelors Super Noodles |
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21.03.08 (121 review reads) |
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Advantages: they are noodles
Disadvantages: they are horrible in every way
Bachelors Super Noodles
Bachelors Super Noodles come in an array of different flavours and even a low fat version but all, I am afraid, are horrible. I have tried, I think, all the different flavours at some time or another but am yet to find one that I actually like. The flavours range from Southern Fried Chicken, Chinese Chow Mien, Barbeque Beef, Chicken to Mushroom, and Cheese and Ham. There are eleven different flavours in all and each as disgusting as the last.
I think every time I buy a packet of these Super Noodles it has been just long enough since buying the last packet, for me to have forgotten the horrors of the last time I attempted to like them. The last and final incident has happen just this evening and thus has prompted me to write this review. Tonight noodles of choice were the Southern Fried Chicken ones and they are now festering in my rubbish bin. The best place for them.
Super Noodles are a cheap quick fix snack that are just perfect for people on the go (or indeed those who like to snack i.e. me). At around 40 pence per packet they are a great price to buy a few and have in the cupboard (if there were liked) but obviously with these you are getting what you pay for.
For the money you are paying, what you are getting is an oblong shaped packet coloured mainly in blue but wrapped up inside are dry beige coloured noodles. Along with these you will find a paper envelope, which holds the flavouring for the selected noodles. The noodles are 100 grams in weight and contain no artificial colours or preservatives. The packaging is simple but yet slightly appealing with the Super Noodles slogan splashed across the front and the Bachelors logo in red sitting proudly above. Super Noodles apparently used to be made by Kellogg's but they sold to another lesser-known company a few years back.
The noodles are easy to make either with the microwave oven or in a pan on the hob. And just need water adding to them and either way will take no longer than 6 minutes. The Microwave method means putting the noodles into a microwave proof container and putting half a pint of boiling water over and cooking for around 5 to 6 minutes. When using the hob method the noodles will need to be dropped into an already simmering half pint of boiling water and then cooked for 4 minutes. I have tried both methods and the method of choice would always be the microwave because using a pan on the hob makes so much more mess and the microwave feels far easier. However both ways I find produce the nastiest tasting noodles ever.
The southern Fried chicken ones that I tried to have tonight were obviously not going to be nice and I knew this from the moment I tore open the small envelope of flavouring. The smell that was released when I ripped the paper was ever so strong and very, very bad. I cannot explain what it smelt like but I knew it wasn't something that smelt like food you were supposed to eat. The smell was very fake and slightly fish like which is rather worrying if you are meant to be eating chicken. I thought that if I tried to add the noodles and water the smell may disappear and the noodles may taste totally different. How wrong could I be? The smell seemed to intensify the more the cooking process went on and just now my flat smells like something has died in it. The colours of the noodles after the flavour had been added turned from beige to an aluminous orange and this in itself was enough to make me not want to eat them. However I had a small forkful of the brightly coloured noodles and tried them. Not only were the noodles soft and slimy and almost congealing in one huge sloppy ball but the smell coming off them was repugnant. The taste of course could be nothing more than fake fishy sludge and after that one small forkful there were straight in the bin.
For eating the whole packet as a snack, which is very feasible, you are looking at putting on lots of weight. They are tremendously high in calories for what they are and even the low fat ones are not that great calorie wise. A whole packet has 524 calories in and 23.6 grams of fat (12 of which saturate). They are high in salt too with a whole packet giving you a nice 2 5 grams of salt! Looking at the ingredients list I notice lots and lots of Salt, along with Monosodium Glutamate, Maltodextrin and a whole load of other stuff, which all sound manufactured and on the whole not very good.
I find the same thing when I have tried all the different varieties, which is that the flavouring tastes very fake and the noodles are very sloppy. I follow the directions to the letter but still they taste awful. Surely this is not what they are meant to taste like? If they are then do people really like them? I think even if the noodles themselves were good in both texture and edibility then I would have them without the flavour sachet added to them but even the noodles on their own don't taste nice. I prefer my noodles to be a little firmer and not to glob together like these ones do. I have even found that Tesco's own noodles are far better than these but half the price. Tesco's do great prawn noodles for around 27 pence; they aren't the savers range but just their own make. They are worth having a look at if you are a noodle lover and stay away from these ones.
I am going to make a promise before you today that no more Bachelors Super Noodles will be placed in my shopping trolley on future shopping trips, not now not even ten years down the line. I would not recommend these Super Noodles to anyone. I think for the price they are awful. For Free they would be awful. I would be hard pushed to eat them if I was staving to death on a desert island and surely that is saying something. I think there are far better alternatives out there and in future I will most certainly opt for those.
A score of 1/10 is a great score for these noodles. The one mark that I have given only being for the nice packaging they come in and the fact that they are noodles in themselves, which I adore! Don't buy these; don't be tempted with special offers. Stay well away!
I hope this has been of some help to you. Thanks for taking the time to read.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THESE! DO NOT EAT THESE! HEALTH WARNING!!!!
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