Ramen Flavor Soda!? Nissin's Cup Noodle Is Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary, and Things are Getting Weird

Fifty years ago, Momofuku Ando dreamed big, creating the world's first instant ramen and cup noodles, and founding Nissin Food Products Co. And to celebrate this important 50-year mark, Nissin has rolled out some interesting new limited-edition ramen products. Whether or not actual flavor was a top priority here, is well, yet to be discovered.

Perhaps the most shocking of these celebratory concoctions is Nissin's new Cup Noodle Soda, which comes in 280 ml cans of four different flavors: basic Cup Noodle, Cup Noodle Seafood, Cup Noodle Chili Tomato, and Cup Noodle Curry. The drinks were sold only made available sets along with actual cups of instant ramen, sold in a few select online shops only, and limited to just 15,000 packs.

For those out there who couldn't get their hands on the soda, but are yearning to find out what "Cup Noodle Soda" could even taste like, the flavors are described as follows:

Cup Noodle Soda: A ginger ale base infused with hints of soy sauce and black pepper.
Cup Noodle Seafood Soda: A cream soda base with a subtle secret ingredient: seafood!
Cup Noodle Curry Soda: A cola base with curry spice.
Cup Noodle Chili Tomato Flavor: A tomato soda base with an invigoratingly tingly and refreshing flavor.

After hearing about each of the soda flavors, they actually start to sound pretty good. It's a shame Nissin isn't planning on selling them on a broader scale, all of us on the Japankuru team wouldn't mind a taste!