The Rules of Kugelach:

Fleishig Kugel? Really? I'm certain that there is no meat in my sweet lukshen kugel - why then does the Vaad insist on posting a sign in the take-out food store where I shop informing me that the kugel is to be considered fleishig?

Let us begin with the following clarification: The intended message of the sign is not to inform the customer that he must wait six hours (or even one hour) after consuming the lukshen kugel before he may drink coffee. As you correctly assumed, there is no meat in the kugel. The sign is simply intended to remind the public that intrinsically pareve items such as lukshen kugel may not be eaten together with dairy when there is sufficient concern that a small amount of meat may have found its way into them.

The source of this halacha may be found in the Shach who discusses the status of a pareve item which was cooked in a fleishig pot that was not thoroughly cleaned and may yet contain some meat residue. The item may not be eaten together with dairy being that it may contain meat. However, the stricture of waiting after meat before partaking of dairy was not applied here by the chachomim as the meat (if any) was not intentionally added and was certainly never intended to impart flavor to the otherwise pareve item (Yad Yehuda as quoted in Badei Hashulchan in explanation of the Shach).

And now to return to our kugel. A practical application of the above mentione halacha is the basis of our sign hanging in your take-out store. The lukshen kugel was produced in a busy kitchen together with numerous fleishig items. Though its recipe does not call for meat to be added to the mixture of noodles, eggs, oil and seasoning, it is quite possible that a minute bit of meat found its way into the batter. We therefore caution you to consider it fleishig to the extent that it should not be eaten as an accompaniment to a dairy meal. However, you are permitted to drink a coffee or consume any other dairy item immediately afterward.