Ramen Noodles a total mystery how they do it

I find Ramen Noodles an intriguing item. Even from the inception. Its a Japanese dish, made in China for consumption by Americans, who are often on a serious or tight budget. Where else could you spend .10 cents and get your total caloric, and double your sodium allowance for 1 day in 1 meal? I bet more College students eat Ramen Noodles than anyone else in the world. I find it also amazing that its been around since at least the 17th century. That's a long Damn time!

Here is Wikipedias explanation of Ramen in the US.
In North America, Japanese noodles were imported starting in the 1970s bearing the name "ramen" and today it most commonly refers to instant noodles. It gained popularity as a Japanese dish of noodle soup which sold so well in the United States in the late 1970s that imports from Japan were supplanted by American manufacturers by the mid-1980s as a popular food item for tight income buyers. Today, due to its very low cost, ramen has become characterized in the United States as a very cheap food eaten by people such as students or teenagers. A packet of instant ramen in a U.S. supermarket often costs as little as 10 cents. Some generic brands often cost as little as 8 cents per packet, or are sold in bulk. In America, Ramen is becoming increasingly popular, especially in respect to teenagers.

That gets to another thing that amazes me. They can cost from 8 to 10 cents? That is Scary in and of itself. Think about that for a minute. The Noodles which have to be made in huge quantities to satisfy the demand. How much production space is that? How much is the cost of the Facilities? And I would think a process like that takes plenty of room. Add on top of that, the cost of the ingredients to make them. You add on the Labor cost and you have almost used up 10 cents I would think. You haven't even gotten to the cost of Packaging, the Sauce Packet that goes inside of it, or the cost to move that stuff to your local Grocery Store. Then your local Grocery Store needs to make a profit on the thing just for taking shelf space and their overhead involved with handling it.

Check this out, this thing made me laugh. I wonder why our Universities don't have at least one of these in every dormitory.