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Pot Noodle is a brand of instant noodle snack foods, available in a selection of flavours and varieties. Its dehydrated mixture consists of wide noodles, assorted dried vegetables and flavouring powder. Pot Noodles used to contain textured vegetable protein but this has since been removed. The product is prepared by adding boiling water, which softens the noodles and dissolves the powdered sauce. The product is packaged in a sturdy plastic pot, from which the prepared noodles can be eaten, and each pot also regularly contains a sachet of sauce, such as soy sauce. ==History== Instant noodles were originally developed in 1958 by Momofuku Ando as ''Cup Noodle''. Golden Wonder launched the Pot Noodle brand in the United Kingdom in 1977. The Golden Wonder brand was acquired by Unilever in 1995. Golden Wonder was then sold to Tayto in 2006, with Unilever retaining the Pot Noodle brand. Golden Wonder has since established another line of pot noodles called ''The Nation's Noodle''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nation's Noodle website )〕 in direct competition with their old brand. A "GTi" variant, prepared in a microwave instead of adding boiling water, was introduced in the late 2000s and was the first Pot Noodle to contain real meat. Pot Noodles are manufactured in Croespenmaen, near Crumlin, Caerphilly, Wales, which became the topic of a 2006 advertising campaign, showing fictitious Pot Noodle mines in Wales. The factory typically produces 155 million pots annually. In September 2004, one survey suggested that Pot Noodle was the single most loathed brand in Britain. The public perception of the product being that it was of a low quality, and only eaten as a result of laziness or poverty. Around 2006, Pot Noodle's recipe was changed to make the product healthier. This mostly involved cutting down on the amount of salt in the product. In 2007, the brand's logo was changed. Pot Noodle has often given promotional gifts away, including a 'horn' and a 'spinning fork'. During the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Unilever sponsored a musical directed by David Sant, and created by advertising agency Mother, set in a Pot Noodle factory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pot Noodle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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