Note that "ramen profitable", as I understand the term, means "throwing off enough money that the operators of the business can pay for adequate shelter and enough ramen-quality calories to avoid starvation".
That sounds like a pedantic distinction but it's not: ramen-profitability have runways denominated by the willpower of the founders, not extrinsic factors like "founders will soon be homeless".
Beer-money profitable carries none of the same connotations.
I don't think that GP were saying "ramen-profitable" and "beer-profitable" were synonyms, just that both terms are sub-categories of the more general term "profitable." If you're talking to a VC, you should prefer one of these more specific terms.
That sounds like a pedantic distinction but it's not: ramen-profitability have runways denominated by the willpower of the founders, not extrinsic factors like "founders will soon be homeless".
Beer-money profitable carries none of the same connotations.