Pot Noodle Christmas Dinner - 100g

Pot Noodle belongs to the student desk, the night shift and the late train home. The Christmas Dinner pot takes all of that and sticks a paper hat on it, which is about as British a way of doing Christmas as you will find.

In Canada, it tends to get searched for by someone who saw it on a friend's feed from home and laughed, then felt oddly homesick. It is a joke that only lands if you grew up with it, and that makes it a proper little taste of home at Christmas when home is a long way off.

It comes in the usual 100g pot, one person's lunch, and sits happily in a dry cupboard until you need it. Lid off, boiling water to the line, stir, wait, stir again. Eat it from the pot, obviously. Washing up is for people who cooked the real thing.

It makes a cracking stocking filler for anyone who misses a UK Christmas, especially tucked in beside a selection box. Plenty of people grab a few of the everyday Pot Noodles while they are at it, for the long stretch after the holidays.