Dill Pickle Cup Noodles Are Here and We Tried Them, Here’s Our Review

So far, 2025 has been the year of dill pickle everything. In fact, when I heard that Cup Noodles was releasing a new limited edition flavor, I immediately guessed it would be dill pickle. That’s why I get paid the big bucks, folks! Professional food taste tester and packaged food prognosticator—ChatGPT can pry this niche-ass job from my cold, dead hands! Anyway, we got our (cold, dead) hands on the brand new Dill Pickle Cup Noodles and gave them a try. Are they weird…or just weird enough to work? Are they only for true pickle freaks or regular freaks, too? Let’s discuss.

New Product!

Nissin Dill Pickle Cup Noodles

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Pros: Well, these noodles taste like pickles. Pickles made with tons of dried dill, but pickles all the same. As our lovely intern Sanah pointed out, pickle soup is not unprecedented. There’s a Polish dish called zupa ogorkowa that consists of pickles, pickle brine, potatoes, sour cream, and aromatics. But this is not that. For better or worse, it’s not a soup. The fill line inside the cup is pretty low, so the noodles come out saucy rather than brothy. Would brothy have been better? I honestly can’t say, but I do think a creamy element in a broth (butter? sour cream?) may have cut the tang a little and made these a bit more delicious. Still, if you’re a pickle pervert, buy ‘em and try ‘em. You know you want to.

Cons: The tang of the pickle-y sauce is not necessarily good—but it could be. On first bite, it kind of tastes like a slightly weird citrus pasta. But the sheer amount of dried dill in the mix is a bit of a deal breaker (dill breaker?). It gives the noodles a bit of a bitter aftertaste. In the future, I would add some salted butter or sour cream to the mix to cut the tang and dried herb just a touch. (I mean, I probably won’t eat these in the future, but you know what I’m saying.)

Credit: Liv Averett / Nissin

Rating:

5.5/10

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Where can I get these new, limited-edition Cup Noodles?

Starting June 21, Cup Noodles Dill Pickle will be available at select Walmart and Albertsons locations nationwide and online for $1.39 for a limited time.

About the Author

Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks. Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown. What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction. Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home. Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.