Product Placement Friday #2: Pot Noodle

I've never eaten a whole Pot Noodle. Even back in the 80s, when they were all the rage... even then, their reputation preceded them. I think I once tried a forkful of my sister's... that was enough.

Still, they remain inexplicably popular, and not just with students. In the mid-90s, one company paid another company $280 million for the rights to produce Pot Noodle under the Pot Noodle name. Golden Wonder then created a rival brand to the one they'd sold, calling it first The Nation's Noodle... which was eventually changed to Noodle Pot. You couldn't make it up.

Here are some songs that feature Pot Noodles...

Comino - Pot Noodles and Tinned Soup

Super Adventure Club - Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle

Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Pop Me / Pot Noodle

How about some quick lyrical snacks?

With wine gum's and diesel

Pot Noodle or fries

I'd rather die from emphysema

Than learn to just get by

Gomez - Dire Tribe

Louise went to university with the bloke from Gomez. And that's the end of that story.

Its hard sometimes trying to be a geezer

A good lad

With pressures to get on in life

And turn out like your dad

And getting a house, dog, kids, car

The whole kit and caboodle

And making out you can't cook

Apart from Pot Noodle

Just Jack - Lesson One

Let's Squeeze one more in before announcing today's winner.

Chris Difford - Pop Noodle

 

Which brings us to One Man Band Andy Twyman. Here's some Blues You Haven't Heard Before...

Having consumed all that, I still feel strangely empty...