Make It So: Caffeinated Ramen
I got good reaction to my living pokedex column, which made me think that, perhaps “Make It So” would be an excellent, occasional series. If you can’t guess the origin of the title, then you’re young and I hate you for making me feel old.
Anyway, the fact I’m a vintage nerd aside, I want to discuss something I brought up at Fan To Pro awhile ago: someone damn well needs to make caffeinated ramen.
Seriously. Consider the fusion of two things important to the geeks, nerds, and otaku of the world – ramen noodles and caffeine. The ability to eat the great nerd food and to stay awake for hours at the same time. It’s perfect enough it nearly brings me to tears (mostly in frustration that right now the best way to make it is to drop tea on ramen, which just feels kind of lame).
Imagine how this would go over at gaming sessions, where you can slurp down a quick dinner and stay awake.
Or how about conventions, especially anime cons. Caffeinated ramen would be the sheer embodiment of otakudom, the only danger being people would overdo it. Then again that’s always a danger at cons.
Don’t even start me on college students.
Would it sell? Well considering the crazy foodstuffs that sell anyway, I don’t see why not. Harcos Labs sells all sorts of crazy things. The KFC Doubledown exists. So why not caffeinated ramen?
Go on people, who wants to make it so?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/
