{"id":39683,"date":"2019-09-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=39683"},"modified":"2021-03-15T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:13:21","slug":"spotted-maruchan-gold-instant-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/27\/spotted-maruchan-gold-instant-ramen\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOTTED: Maruchan GOLD Instant Ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Maruchan-Gold-Spicy-Miso.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Maruchan Gold Spicy Miso\" title=\"Maruchan Gold Spicy Miso.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Maruchan-Gold-Soy-Sauce.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Maruchan Gold Soy Sauce\" title=\"Maruchan Gold Soy Sauce.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maruchan GOLD: Letting broke college students splurge a little. <em>(Spotted by <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/cutetnkrbelle>@cutetnkrbelle<\/a> at Harris Teeter.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you\u2019re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and &#8220;Spotted&#8221; in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag <b>#spotted<\/b>. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Also, if you want to send in photos and are wondering if we&#8217;ve already covered something or if the product is old, don&#8217;t worry about it. Let us worry about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you&#8217;ve seen the product, help out your fellow readers by letting them know in the comments what city and store you found it in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maruchan GOLD: Letting broke college students splurge a little. (Spotted by @cutetnkrbelle at Harris Teeter.) Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you\u2019re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and &#8220;Spotted&#8221; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-on-shelves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76471,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/24\/spotted-maruchan-instant-lunch-flamin-hot-chicken-ramen\/","url_meta":{"origin":39683,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Maruchan Instant Lunch Flamin&#8217; Hot Chicken Ramen","author":"Marvo","date":"March 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"BOOM! 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