Ari has pointed out that among the ingredients listed on this packet of Trident Hokkien Noodles is
Noodles (72%)
Apparently the other 28% is not noodles, but a cunning concoction of wheat flour, water, salt, potato starch, gardenia extract and thickener that is almost completely indistinguishable from actual noodles.
Now, I’m assuming that the Trident Noodles company wouldn’t use some other company’s noodles to make their own noodles. So presumably 72% of Trident Hokkien Noodles is made out of Trident Hokkien Noodles. And only 72% of those Trident Hokkien noodles are Trident Hokkien Noodles. And so on.
By my reckoning, if you take the sum to infinity of the geometric series the proportion of non-noodle ingredients approaches one. Thus these noodles have no noodles in them at all. It’s a con job. They’re just made of flour and water and stuff.