billroberts

Could someone describe what is meant by US people when they talk about ramen as the proverbial cheap food for struggling entrepreneurs? I'm from the UK and I'm familiar with ramen as the tasty noodle soup you can get in Japanese restaurants. However I suspect people are usually referring to something else: is it simply dried noodles? Or something akin to the rather disgusting 'Pot Noodle' available in the UK and probably elsewhere, where you add boiling water to a plastic container holding noodles and unidentifiable chemical flavourings?