Pot Noodle Sticky Rib - 90g

In Britain the Pot Noodle sits somewhere between a snack and a meal, and nobody has ever settled which. It lives in office drawers, student cupboards and the footwell of the van, ready for the moment the day runs out of time.

People in Canada go looking for it by name because the taste is tied to a particular stretch of life: the first flat, the night bus home, the exam you scraped through. Sticky Rib has its own loyal crowd, and they are not easily talked into another flavour.

It is a single 90g pot, sealed and light, so it keeps happily in the cupboard and travels in a bag without fuss. Fill to the line with boiling water, stir, wait, stir again. A fork is traditional. Drinking the last bit straight from the pot is between you and your conscience.

Hardly anyone stops at one. A stack for the desk drawer is the usual move, and plenty of people add a bag of British crisps for afterwards, because standards must be kept up somewhere.