Kitayama Noodles Ramen
"Local loving meal" introduces Toyama's Showa retro foods that survive in the peace.The first is "Wife Ramen", which is familiar at my dining table.There are words that are worrisome about the bags, such as "I was selling hundreds of millions a year in Japan in the 1950s" and "I was gone by instant noodles and disappeared."What is your wife ramen?We visited the manufacturer Kitayama noodles (Fukushima, Yao -cho, Toyama City).■ The 105th anniversary of Kitayama noodles are a long -established store founded in 1917 (Taisho 6) in Yao -cho, famous for the Owara -style tray.When I asked the third -generation president Masakazu Kitayama (77) about the origin of his wife ramen, he returned, saying, "I don't know because the bagaya named it."What is the named parent?"Noodles and bread will be in a bag and sold. In the past, there was no bag. The noodles were sold naked and the customers wrapped them in newspapers and brought back."A plastic bag appeared in the 1950s.A plastic bag manufacturer called on noodle -making companies nationwide to spread bags and launched a bag with bags.I was surprised that it was related to the evolution of packaging materials.
Kitayama noodles when moved to the current location in 1945
■ Hundreds of millions of meals sold a year were manufactured and sold by about 100 companies selected nationwide, and they were initially sold hundreds of millions a year.By the way, only Kitayama noodles were making wife ramen in Toyama prefecture.The package was an illustration with a donburu.The soup was caramel -shaped solid and was wrapped in silver paper.I want to see it, but no photos remain.The origin of the name was, "It's delicious because the time and effort of cooking is reduced!Kitayama noodles sold their wife ramen for only five years from 1960 (Showa 35) to 65 (Showa 40).A short life for popularity ...President Kitayama said, "The neck of the wife ramen should not last a long time. It is about 3 days in the summer.In the 1950s, refrigerators were not widespread in stores and homes, and raw noodles were literally short.■ I lost to instant noodles, "In this way, instant noodles have become widespread. At the same time, the number of supermarket chains has increased, and it has become an era of mass production mass consumption."