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Southsea Common in Portsmouth was the scene of a stunning aerial bombardment on Sunday as hundreds of parachuting noodle pots descended from the skies to an excitable crowd below.
The ambitious stunt was carried out to celebrate the launch of Golden Wonder: The Nation’s Noodle – a brand new range of instant noodle and pasta snacks from the iconic and much-loved British brand.
Dropped from a vertigo-inducing 150 ft, the daredevil pots appeared to be coming in to land on British soil for the first time having crossed the English channel – a fitting image as Golden Wonder has been in the hot snacking wilderness for the best part of the last 15 years.
When the pots hit the ground just after 11:00am, the scramble that ensued to get hold of them wasn’t just born out of warm, nostalgic feelings for an old British favourite.
The 300 Portsmouth folk that charted their downward course had beaten off competition from thousands of others to win places at the event, and were striving to get hold of the one parachuting pot that contained £1,000.
Tuan Anh Nguyen, 24 years old from Southsea in Portsmouth, was the lucky testosterone filled male to walk away with the money.
Commenting on the drop a Golden Wonder spokesperson said, “Golden Wonder is as big a British institution as red telephone boxes, Only Fools & Horses, cups of tea and the Queen herself – so naturally we wanted do something attention grabbing to mark its return to the big time. While Portsmouth is the home of the British Navy local residents will no doubt have seen various army aircraft flying overhead in their time – what they won’t have seen before is anything like the noodle invasion witnessed today!”
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For further information and images of the drop please contact Martin Ayres or Bridey Lipscombe in the Golden Wonder Press Office at Cow PR on:
Tel: 07973 311223
goldenwonder@cowpr.com
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Golden Wonder: The Nation’s Noodle and The Nation’s Pasta is a brand new range of hot instant noodle and pasta snacks packed with full-on flavour.
The Nation’s Noodle line up includes: Chicken & Mushroom, Beef & Tomato, Sweet & Sour and Chip Shop Curry
The Nation’s Pasta range includes: Spaghetti Bolognese, Spicy Tomato and Macaroni Cheese
The entire range is available now from all good supermarkets nationwide with an RRP of 85p.
For further product information visit www.thenationsbest.co.uk
