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4 unusual facts about Pot Noodle


Jonathan Thake

Jonathan Thake is a television writer best known for ‘the slag of all snacks’ campaign for Pot Noodle.

Pot Noodle

In Douglas Adams' 1988 novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, detective Dirk Gently encounters (and subsequently has his nose broken by) a television-addicted boy who survives on nothing but Pot Noodle.

Golden Wonder was then sold to Tayto in 2006, with Unilever retaining the Pot Noodle brand.

Instant noodles were originally developed in 1958 by Momofuku Ando as Cup Noodle.



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