Noodling

[ksmith]

Archeologists excavating an ancient Chinese settlement discovered a small pile of well-preserved noodles after turning over an upside-down clay bowl.

The bowl was buried beneath 10 feet of sediment in Lajia, a small community located by the Yellow River in northwestern China that was destroyed by an earthquake about 4,000 years ago.

The thin, yellow noodles were about 20 inches long and resembled La-Mian, a type of traditional Chinese noodle made by grinding wheat to make dough and then repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

No sign of a Ramen package anywhere.

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Comments

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure you could throw those noodles in boiling water and even after 4000 years, they'll make great soup.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

very cool

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I keep waiting for them to find a Twinkie in a pyramid. And it would still be as soft and moist as it was the day it was interred.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Archeologists found a 4000-year-old loaf of bread in a Switzerland bog a few years back... I don't think they tried to cut it, though.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Dwarf bread. Fresh as the day it was baked.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

And in Irish bogs they've found butter, so I think we should get them together...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Now someone just needs to find a teapot, and we'll have elevenses.