Instant noodles

I am fascinated by instant noodles. Specifically the kind that comes in a plastic cup, and you just have to add hot water. Even more specifically, the chicken flavoured kind.

I don't eat the noodles, mind you. I only study them.

When you first open the cup, you will find noodles, dried vegetables, and small shriveled flakes of something that might or might not be chicken. After you've added the water and waited for a couple of minutes, the flakes will have turned into small soggy cubes that you are expected to believe is the rehydrated chicken. No matter when you open the cup, you will find either flakes or cubes. There is no transitional phase.

My theory is that the substance that we are supposed to accept as chicken is in fact not from this world!

I believe that the small flakes are in fact transdimensional beacons, that are activated by the hot water and start sending a signal that no scientific intrument on earth can detect. The signal is received by some extradimensional entity, which opens a small portal to the inside of the cup and proceeds to remove the beacons and replace them with soggy cubes. Soggy cubes are presumably the primary life form of this unknown dimension.

As the next step in my research, I am planning to ingest a single specimen of the shriveled flakes of “dried chicken” and carefully observe any dimensional fluctuations.