Dried noodles in a pot with a sachet of soy sauce, launched in Britain in 1979 and never off a student shelf since.
The chicken and mushroom flavour is the default and the argument about the best one has never been settled. The sachet always burst wrong.
It was cheap, it was hot, and it required nothing but a kettle, which at certain points in life is the entire specification.
Cost back then
25p
Goes for now
About £1.30
Keep going
A wedding present that came out for one dinner party in 1976 and then lived at the back of a cupboard.
Carbonate your own tap water at home, then ruin it with concentrate that tasted almost but not quite like cola.
Thirteen episodes. That is all there ever were, and it is one of the best-loved British programmes ever made.
Granada recreated a working men's club in a studio: singers, comics, a gavel and a bar.