A Glasgow-based Youtuber has gone viral with a video exposing what he says is a 'conspiracy' involving one of the UK's favourite lunchtime snacks.
Content creator Darren Dowling, better known as Dazza, has gathered a huge following online thanks to his deep-frying antics on his hit show 'Does It Fry?' which has seen him batter everything from Big Macs to Tunnock's Tea Cakes, as well as a starring turn on Come Dine With Me.
And now it seems he's turned his hand to investigating the food world after his latest viral video saw him looking into a conspiracy involving the 'hidden space' at the bottom of Kingsize Pot Noodles.
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After one of his followers prompted the video, he took a pair of scissors to the sides of a curry-flavour Pot Noodle only to discover it was in fact true, that there was at least two inches of space at the bottom of the pot.
Worse, when he measured both sizes of the snack, he found you get almost the same amount of noodles in both.
A clearly shocked Dazza then finishes the video by stating: “What have I uncovered here? I feel like the Pot Noodle police will be at my door soon, I can’t believe that."
The video has garnered thousands of comments with people flocking to debate about the snack which has been a British staple since it was first launched by Golden Wonder back in the late 70s.
And the internet star has been shocked by how many people have watched his latest clip, he said: "The response has been wild. Almost two million people have seen it now on TikTok and honestly, I’m happy to be the Pot Noodle Whistleblower - the noodleblower if you want a catchier name."
Dazza added that he still can't believe what he has discovered: "I expected maybe less filling and more noodles and that was why you only got 1 soy sauce packet even in a King Pot Noodle. But alas - I was heartbroken."
According to the website of makers Unilever, who have also been contacted for comment, a normal Pot Noodle is 305g (after preparation with water) while a King size is 385g (after preparation with water) - so is the difference only the water weight?
The King size also has 543 calories, while the regular has just 430 calories.
Dazza is now calling on the makers of Pot Noodle to explain, joking that he feels he's "owed years of compensation" for this "trickery".
And that's not all, he explained that he now plans to do one last experiment, adding that he intends to make both sizes with the same amount of water to see if he ends up with basically the same thing or not.
He added: "It’s going to lift the lid on one of the world's biggest conspiracies."
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