How the Cup Noodles Empire Was Built

in the year 2000 the Fuji Research Institute conducted a poll asking people what they felt was Japan's greatest invention of the 20th century and the people overwhelmingly answered instant noodles and nothing else even came close so n nin's many brands of instant Ramen including cup noodles and Top Ramen have kept many a broke college student fed

but where did this time saving and why saving meal come from today on weird history food we're boiling up the history of cup noodles but before we get started be sure to subscribe to the weird history Food Channel and let us know in the comments below what other microwave Staples you would like to hear about

okay time to use your [Music] noodle in 1932 at the age of 20 2 Taiwanese businessman Wu bifu opened up his very own textile company just a year later he headed to Osaka Japan where he changed his name to Momofuku Ando and set up shop selling knitted Goods while he attended the renowned ritsu mean

University his business was a quick success and he soon started to dabble in a variety of other Enterprises from pre-fabricated housing to the production of both charcoal and salt but as the story goes with the start and finish of the second world war Japan was left in a state of devastating poverty and after a

2-year stint in prison for tax evasion which began in 1948 muku was left destitute as well his businesses gradually shuttered and he was left with nothing but his house and presumably all the muku jerseys he ordered from the NBA Pro Shop at the time the Japanese government with the help of their American occupiers were continuing their

wartime rationing program and both inefficiency and Corruption were leading to widespread hunger and black market popups so as muku wandered his way out of prison and off into the early 1950s he noticed that long lines of starving people would wait out in freezing temperatures just for a chance to taste some hot black market Ramen muku claims