- Brand: Batchelor’s Super Noodles
- Flavour: Sweet & Sour
- Cost: £0.60 (part of 5 for £3 deal, normal price is £0.69)
- From: Tesco
- Description: Super Noodles in a tasty sweet & sour flavour sauce
- Weight: 100g (300g when prepared)
- Allergies: Contains Wheat, Gluten, Celery, Milk
Weird!
Our relationship is such that if we ever do manage to agree on anything it must be absolutely true so I thought the best thing to do would be to review them myself (I already had a packet in the cupboard).
Typical Super Noodle presentation, cellophane wrapper containing noodles and a flavour sachet - none of which is currently recyclable. Preparation can be done on the hob or in the microwave and as usual (when I can) I chose the hob.
“How do they taste?” The answer is weird! I'm not aware of anything else in the world that tastes quite so much as a jellyfish looks. This is just one big bowl of gelatinous oddness.
“Do they remind me in any way of an authentic sweet & sour dish?” The answer is no. To be honest though they never had a chance. I took a look the ingredients when I was preparing them and all that's there with regards flavour is onion powder, yeast extract, tomato powder, garlic powder, citric acid and parsley. There is also butylated hydroxyanisole, propyl gallate, MSG, disodium 5'-ribonucletides, sodium diacetate,silicon dioxide and tricalcium phosphate. Take a look in any cookbook and I doubt you'll see similar things listed under your favourite sweet and sour recipe. Don't worry if you don't know what any of these things are, I've created a glossary page with all the info there.
“How do I feel now I’ve finished it?” Gutted. A waste of 10 minutes of my life. I suppose I'm satiated but these truly are awful.
Conclusion – For the overall experience they are too expensive at 69p. Also, my friend and I agree, and as I told you at the top of the page when that happens it just needs to be accepted as fact by the rest of the world. Sweet & Sour Super Noodles are wrong!
Need 4 Noodle Rating: 2/10
I'll even explain this score: 1 point for being easy to prepare, .5 of a point for tasting a bit like food, 0 points for authenticity and .5 of a point for managing to fill me up.
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