Pot Noodle Piri-Piri Chicken - 90g

In British food, the Pot Noodle lives somewhere between toast and a takeaway. It is the meal for when the fridge has given up, the one stacked in every student flat share, and the one nobody ever quite owns up to eating.

People in Canada search for it by name because it is that particular pot they want. The flavour, the fork-in-the-pot ritual and the faint guilt are all part of it, and they come as a set.

Each 90g pot needs nothing but a kettle and a few minutes. It sits happily in the cupboard until you need it, which makes it handy for the office, the cabin, the camping trip or the late shift when the canteen has shut.

Pot Noodle makes a whole range back home, from Chicken and Mushroom to Bombay Bad Boy, and most people have a firm favourite they will defend. It tends to go in the basket alongside a bag of British crisps, a chocolate bar and a box of proper tea.