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My mum has this thing about sachet noodles (KOKA, Indomie, whatever) as being inherently extremely unhealthy and that extends to everyone under her purview, even now. Even now, I can’t visit home and just casually make some noodles without her nagging me to death about how unhealthy they are and what they’re saying about how the owner of certain brands of noodles regarded them as beneath him and his family. It just never stops, regardless of how old the people around her get. Home for Christmas with your cousins? None of us can eat noodles in peace. I wonder what she thinks about food-cultures in Asia where noodles traditionally play a big role.

I’ve got a tale I could tell about her approach to Sunny-D one evening in Tesco but that was more banter than anything. She wasn’t beefing it for-real.