Pimp That Snack

The Bombay Behemoth

by Hugh Dalton 9 photos Rated 90% 1,449 votes when voting closed

The pot noodle is an icon in the snack world. Previous efforts to pimp this classic have been, frankly, pretty poor so I decided to set about creating the daddy of all noodle snacks. Inspired by the ‘bombay badboy’ pot noodle, ladies and gentlemen I give you…… The BOMBAY BEHEMOTH!!!

Ingredients laid out: stacks of instant noodle packets, peas, sweetcorn, foil and a large black plant pot

Ingredients; 1 bin, black card, 27 packets of noodles, Soya pieces (did you know there’s no real meat in a genuine pot noodle?), sweetcorn, peas, hot curry powder, cornflour and foil.

Two test bowls of noodles beside the black pot, with an original Pot Noodle wrapper and lid flattened

The original Bombay badboy is cannibalised into it’s constituent parts (not a lot there really!…)

Drawing around the pot's base onto foil with a pencil to mark out the oversized lid

To create an authentic, flexible, peelable lid, black card is cut out and backed with foil (honestly, I think I’ve flipped my lid)

The scaled-up Bombay Bad Boy lid design cut out and propped against the black pot, scissors nearby

The lid and label are scanned and printed in giant replica for use on the bin (If only Ikea and Staples knew what I was intending to do with the purchases I made from them earlier in the day!…)

The pot packed with blocks of dried instant noodles, three ordinary noodle packets in front for scale

27 packets of dry noodles are emptied into the bin – thank god their only 8p per pack. (That’s 1.7Kg of dry noodles by the way). Their mined in Wales apparently…

Curry powder, cornflour, peas, sweetcorn and dried soya pieces measured into a large white bowl

The raw ingredients for the ‘powder’ are mixed together. I have deliberately used hot curry powder. It is supposed to be a hot snack after all!

The giant pot wrapped in its scaled-up label, standing beside a normal-sized Pot Noodle

The powder is tipped onto the top of the dry noodles and the lid sealed – like a spicy sarcophagus.

Boiling water poured from a jug into the giant pot of noodles and seasoning, foil lid folded back

Fortunately, unlike the ancient Egyptians, our sarcophagus is opened again very soon and, in true keeping with pot noodle “cooking instructions” we add boiling water (15 litres in total – our kettle nearly had a nervous breakdown)

The finished pot brimming with cooked curried noodles, lid peeled open, a standard Pot Noodle alongside

It’s alive!!! The beast is complete. It did take a lot more stirring and considerably longer to cook than it’s diminutive companion, but it did cook properly. Total final weight: just over 17000g. That’s 68 times the size of the original and a whopping 27540 kcal (calories)! Now if I could just find a 30 foot tall student to buy it!

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