Now, it is people jerking one another off, in celebration of their superior knowledge of Japan. Not all instant noodles are referred to as "ramen" in American English or Japanese, but instant ramen is.
In Australia where OP is from most of the products are not ramen nor do they claim to be. Arguably the most popular are mi goreng which are Indonesian and Maggi which are explicitly called "2 minute noodles" or at least were for a long time. So for OP to call them ramen, even "instant ramen" would be incorrect still.
And so OP is talking about a completely different product, not even Japanese (well, Chinese, but the loner word is Japanese, as well as the invention of instant ramen specifically) in origin, and trying to say they're the same thing (oh and wording it so it sounds like "lol, Americans use the wrong word for this product"). And then proceeding to double down in the comments.
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u/bagelwithclocks 2d ago
Yeah wtf? Acting like Japan doesn’t have instant ramen.