Gerber Unveils New Top Ramen Baby Food
Gerber is announcing a new product this week, baby food made out of Top Ramen noodles!
Gerber Top Ramen Dinner should be hitting the shelves by May and is part of Gerber’s “2nd Foods” line. The “2nd Foods” line is for after you give your baby the basics like creamed veggies and fruits. Since I have a seven month old myself, I think this a great idea. Kids will love the flavor of the noodles and it’s healthier than something like mac and cheese.
Top Ramen was chosen to partner with Gerber and the company said that they believe this to be a “great opportunity to get kids hooked on Top Ramen early” and that it will “be the primary driver of sales growth in our best demographic”. Top Ramen also hopes to release what they are calling a “Mommy and Me” double pack, which will contain one pack of regular Top Ramen and one jar of Top Ramen Dinner from Gerber.
The only problem I see is that the jars will have the noodles cooked until they are basically mush since babies would find it hard to eat those long noodles. I guess the full-sized “adult” noodles have to wait until the kid is old enough to hold a fork or chop sticks.
I’ll post another update after I get to buy some of these, I’m curious to see if they really kept the Top Ramen flavor true to style and what varieties will be available.
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Hmm . . . mighty curious that they introduced this product on April Fool’s day. Funny, though.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Jr. Prison Ramen
1 jar Gerber 2nd Foods, Top Ramen flavor
3 or 4 oz. Pruno, to make a thick soup
2 small Slim Jim meat sticks, spicy flavor, broken up
1 slice Velveeta cheese
1 spoon Metamucil or psylium husks
Salt, pepper, or soap shavings to taste
Heat baby food and pruno in hot pot until steamy, let reduce 2 min. until raw alcohol boils away. It should still be a bit runny, like a cream soup.
Add more Pruno if it is too thick, but wait another minute to boil off the raw alcohol flavor.
Add Slim Jims (you will have to tear them unless you have a shiv hidden somewhere), Velveeta slice, and Metamucil. It will thicken up nicely now.
Season to taste. I like salt and pepper, but a few fine shavings of soap add a piquant flavor. Ivory or other natural soap has the best flavor, or see if your woman can get you some rosemary soap. Do not use deodorant soap.
April 5th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Are you serious? Top Ramen is horribly bad for you. The MSG will destroy your life expectancy, and you want to feed it to an infant? Great idea.
April 10th, 2009 at 9:02 am
they did quite a job on the label – the ‘top ramen’ title doesn’t seem to wrap with the roundness of the bottle… they must have been anticipating an easier to read product shot
either that or it’s april fools!
April 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
You have no idea how long I tried to make it wrap. I suck at the Gimp.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:59 am
well top ramen isnt bad at all i have been eating it for a long time and i have had no problems with my life expectancy.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:22 am
dood. that @%$#ing gross