mollten writes "According to BBC News, the world's oldest noodles have been found at the Lajia site in China. Carbon Dating has found the remains to be over 4000 years old." From the article: "Prior to the discovery of noodles at Lajia, the earliest written record of noodles is traced to a book written during the East Han Dynasty sometime between AD 25 and 220, although it remained a subject of debate whether the Chinese, the Italians, or the Arabs invented it first ... Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in China" Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China Log in/Create an Account | Top | 131 comments | Search Discussion Display Options Threshold: -1: 131 comments 0: 125 comments 1: 96 comments 2: 52 comments 3: 17 comments 4: 7 comments 5: 6 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Lajia U? (Score:5, Funny) by yagu (721525) * <yayagu@gmail.com> on Friday October 14, @10:31PM (#13795483) (Last Journal: Friday October 14, @01:20PM) They should keep digging. I'm betting they've stumbled across an old LajiaUniversity dormitory and discovered students' supplies of Ramen. (Well at leastthat's what we lived on in college.) [ Reply to ThisRe:Lajia U? by OakDragon (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:40PMRe:Lajia U? by rob_squared (Score:3) Friday October 14, @10:51PMRe:Lajia U? by bn557 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:55PMRamen? Pah! Mr. Noodles is where the flavour lives by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:52PMRe:Lajia U? by slideroll (Score:2) Friday October 14, @11:14PMRe:Lajia U? by unixbugs (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:15PMRe:Lajia U? by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:26PMRe:Lajia U? by ozmanjusri (Score:2) Friday October 14, @11:40PMRe:Lajia U? by Arandir (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:23AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.keep digging... by Jodka (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:38AM Was it Ramen? (Score:5, Funny) by notthe9 (800486) on Friday October 14, @10:32PM (#13795485) That stuff lasts forever. Bet it was.Probably still good. [ Reply to ThisRe:Was it Ramen? by Jambon (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:40PMToo bad they didn't find the spice packet. by SumDumFloridaGoy (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:53PMMSG? by ackthpt (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:56PMRe:Was it Ramen? by notthe9 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:45PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Translation of text found with noodles (Score:3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14, @10:33PM (#13795488) 1. heat 1 cup boiling water2. peel back lid on cup and pour water to line3. cover for 3 minutes [ Reply to ThisRe:Translation of text found with noodles by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:11PMRe:Translation of text found with noodles by Celsius 233 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:47PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. mmm (Score:2, Funny) by Kickboy12 (913888) on Friday October 14, @10:33PM (#13795489) (http://cacrew.com/) Wonder what the expiration date was. [ Reply to ThisMod parent funny! by Spy der Mann (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:52PM Arrr matey! (Score:5, Funny) by geeber (520231) on Friday October 14, @10:34PM (#13795495) Yet more proof. He [venganza.org] Lives! [ Reply to ThisRe:Arrr matey! by mctk (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:36PM Re:Arrr matey! (Score:5, Funny) by Associate (317603) on Friday October 14, @10:58PM (#13795582) (http://slashdot.org/) Behold, the Second Helping. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Arrr matey! by aklix (Score:1) Saturday October 15, @12:22AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold. Ancient ramen? (Score:2, Interesting) by Bananatree3 (872975) * on Friday October 14, @10:35PM (#13795499) (http://forums.krazyletter.com/) While Ramen was technically invented in the 1970's, I just can't help thinking about how ramen would have tasted 4000 years ago. Would it be plain, or maybe chicken flavored? How about beef flavored? I really wish I knew, but all we have now is a microscopic noodle-shaped, tubular shriviled up mass that would probably taste horrible if mixed with water. :/ [ Reply to ThisRe:Ancient ramen? by notthe9 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:36PMRe:Ancient ramen? by king-manic (Score:2) Friday October 14, @10:41PM This is the proof we needed! (Score:5, Funny) by origamy (807009) on Friday October 14, @10:37PM (#13795505) (http://www.origamy.com.br/) This is irrefutable archeologycal proof of the existance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.This may have an impact on the holy books, but I'm sure the clergy is already handling the matter. [ Reply to ThisRe:This is the proof we needed! by FSM (Score:2) Friday October 14, @11:55PMRe:This is the proof we needed! by PakProtector (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:15AM The inventions of noodles was in question? (Score:3, Interesting) by king-manic (409855) on Friday October 14, @10:38PM (#13795511) (Last Journal: Friday May 28, @06:11PM) I thought it was a concrete fact that the chinese invented it and it migrated west. The italians haven't had them for all that long. [ Reply to ThisRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by notthe9 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @10:40PMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by worst_name_ever (Score:2) Friday October 14, @10:59PMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by pancake_lover (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:34PMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by diersing (Score:1) Saturday October 15, @12:02AMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by MMaestro (Score:3) Saturday October 15, @12:00AMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by Arandir (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:29AMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by king-manic (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:46AMRe:The inventions of noodles was in question? by Jeremi (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:51AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. At the shop around the corner (Score:2, Funny) by Wizzmer (862755) on Friday October 14, @10:39PM (#13795517) I can find that at the shop around the corner. It even includes a coupon to go and see where they're building the Egyptian pyramids... [ Reply to ThisRe:At the shop around the corner by tiggles (Score:1) Saturday October 15, @12:18AM Article Continued (Score:2) by MBCook (132727) <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com> on Friday October 14, @10:41PM (#13795525) (http://www.foobarsoft.com/) ... This finding replaces the previous record, 270 years, previously held by "Uncle Joe's Authentic Chynees" (sic) on 3rd Street. While the restaurant (closed since August under order of the local health department after reports of patrons teeth chipping while eating the "Egg-Foou-Youngings") no longer holds the record, it maintains its distinction as the restaurant serving the oldest noodles. When asked for comment, "Uncle Joe" continued to defend his cuisine stating that his establishment has a policy of never serving food older than he is. When asked, "Uncle Joe" said he was born March 23rd, 1723.You'd think they would have found something between 270 years and 4000 years, huh? ;) [ Reply to This One more proof.... (Score:2, Funny) by dracken (453199) on Friday October 14, @10:42PM (#13795530) (http://slashdot.org/) ....that we were all created by his noodly appendage [venganza.org]. [ Reply to This Oh oh! (Score:1, Offtopic) by Comatose51 (687974) on Friday October 14, @10:44PM (#13795539) Pour some hot water on it and let it sit for about 1 minute! Maybe the skeleton is the remains of an ancient Chinese college student about to make a nice bowl of Ramen after a night of spending laboring away at his abacus, trying to find the bug in his algorithm for doing this new thing called multiplication. [ Reply to This If They're Looking For Old Food... (Score:3, Funny) by Ginnungagap42 (817075) on Friday October 14, @10:45PM (#13795543) Hell they should have dug in the back of my refrigerator; I've got noodles WAY older than that back there... [ Reply to This Shortly after... (Score:1) by UltimaL337Star (641853) on Friday October 14, @10:47PM (#13795547) The world's oldest flavor sauce and oil packets were found. [ Reply to This That sound you hear... (Score:5, Funny) by winkydink (650484) * <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Friday October 14, @10:53PM (#13795564) (http://www.networkmirror.com/ | Last Journal: Friday October 14, @03:13PM) is 58 million Italians crying out in anguish [ Reply to This1 reply beneath your current threshold. Non sequitur (Score:3, Informative) by Elf-friend (554128) on Friday October 14, @10:54PM (#13795565) Our discovery indicates that noodles were first produced in ChinaAlthough I would tend to agree with that theory, this is badly worded, to the verge of being a logical fallacy. It would be better to say that the discovery "rules out the Italians and Arabs," since those cultures post-date these noodles (assuming the accuracy of the dating, despite radiocarbon's vulnerability to contamination). The discovery does not prove that some earlier culture didn't have noodles first. We can only say we have no evidence for an earlier existence. [ Reply to ThisRe:Non sequitur by CosmeticLobotamy (Score:2) Friday October 14, @11:20PMRe:Non sequitur by Yurka (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:03AMRe:Non sequitur by The Ape With No Name (Score:1) Saturday October 15, @12:15AMRe:Non sequitur by the phantom (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:40AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Also found nearby... (Score:2) by coupland (160334) * <dchase&hotmail,com> on Friday October 14, @10:56PM (#13795572) (Last Journal: Tuesday February 08, @04:34PM) Also found nearby was the world's oldest chicken ball, and world's oldest heat lamp. [ Reply to ThisRe:Also found nearby... by Walt Dismal (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:41AM Did the noodles have MSG? (Score:2, Funny) by saturndude (609090) on Friday October 14, @11:02PM (#13795595) (http://www.slashdot.org/) Strange, I read the article, and I wanted to read it again twenty minutes later. [ Reply to This Have you ever seen a B.C. sell-by-date ? (Score:1) by this great guy (922511) on Friday October 14, @11:04PM (#13795605) Hum, those archeologist must have never explored my kitchen. [ Reply to This Condiments? (Score:2, Funny) by ElectricOkra (876481) on Friday October 14, @11:04PM (#13795606) What they didn't say is that they also found 30 unopened packets of Duck Sauce... [ Reply to This 4000-year old noodles, found... (Score:2) by mbstone (457308) <michael.b.stone@ ... t minus caffeine> on Friday October 14, @11:06PM (#13795608) (http://turn.pro/) ...on a room service tray in the hallway of a 3000-year old hotel [ Reply to This Cool, but don't forget the beer! (Score:2) by fak3r (917687) on Friday October 14, @11:07PM (#13795612) (http://fak3r.com/) I'm always facinated to see what stands the test of time, obvious good food stays around, just take beer (just not mine!) for example:More than 6,000 years ago, the refreshing qualities of beer were recognized and enjoyed, and ancient peoples have left records to indicate that they took the brewing of this thirst-quenching beverage very seriously.The Chinese, Inca, African, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Hebrew and Saxon are just a few civilizations in which beer has been associated with family life, friendship, romance and celebrations. Through the years it has been immortalized in songs, stories, poems, and legends. Although the taste of beer has changed over the last few thousand years, the enjoyment has remained constant. Other than water and tea, beer is the most popular beverage on earth. When today's beer drinkers lift a frosty mug of their favorite brew, they can do so knowing that they are in good company, sharing a kinship with pharaohs, kings, queens, statesmen, literary giants and explorers. Today, as in the past, beer has no cultural boundaries. Its long tradition of providing enjoyable refreshment to consumers continues.Read more details here: Ancient Beer [tripod.com] [ Reply to ThisWhat would be interesting... by jd (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:16AM This story... (Score:3, Funny) by mary_will_grow (466638) on Friday October 14, @11:09PM (#13795621) ...is as old as those noodles!ha!! [ Reply to ThisRe:This story... by Concerned Onlooker (Score:2) Saturday October 15, @12:00AM Freshness? (Score:2, Funny) by ZenPirate (562047) on Friday October 14, @11:09PM (#13795624) I bet they're not as tasty as four millenia old twinkies would be. [ Reply to ThisRe:Freshness? by Skreems (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:30PM Must be stale (Score:1) by Rogue Jedi X (911665) on Friday October 14, @11:12PM (#13795629) Wow. 4000 years, now that's something. I wonder what tools they used to make those and how they cooked them. Who knows, maybe they will discover a 5000 year old hamburger, consumed by native Americans while enjoying their weekly sacrifice to their favourite god. [ Reply to This Holy pasta, Batman! (Score:1) by Captain Lobotomy (413428) on Friday October 14, @11:13PM (#13795633) " the world's oldest noodles have been found at the Lajia site in China. Carbon Dating has found the remains to be over 4000 years old."Bet they're crunchy.... [ Reply to This just how many days old does the news have to be? (Score:1) by iamrojo (881484) on Friday October 14, @11:18PM (#13795649) This story is 2 days old. My god, It's no wonder that I'm going DIGG now. DAYS OLD.Maybe we can talk about what happened with Clinton next. [ Reply to This1 reply beneath your current threshold. Proof that these Noodles are Jesus Christ (Score:1, Troll) by Jackie_Chan_Fan (730745) on Friday October 14, @11:23PM (#13795659) Cause I said so. [ Reply to This 4000 Years and 7 days. (Score:1) by Aristophrenia (917761) on Friday October 14, @11:25PM (#13795665) I saw this last week when it was actually News; Can't find the article offhand...Probably because they've moved on to something that actually is News.Besides, 4000 year old noodles arn't that big of a deal; The place I ate at tonight had bread that tasted twice that old. [ Reply to This Scientific theory (Score:2) by BrookHarty (9119) on Friday October 14, @11:26PM (#13795667) (http://www.ironwolve.com/ | Last Journal: Friday July 09, @01:59AM) We dont know where noodles where invented, just like we dont know alot about our history in the early ages of man. Just because they found some evidience doesnt make it fact that china was first. Its a theory, nothing can be proven as fact yet.Tired of all these new discoveries to be taken as fact, when they keep changing every few years... [ Reply to This Other entrees... (Score:1) by pokereth (827751) on Friday October 14, @11:35PM (#13795691) Did they eat them with thousand-year-old eggs? [ Reply to ThisRe:Other entrees... by Celsius 233 (Score:1) Friday October 14, @11:54PM Noodles On My Back (Score:1) by Caffeine Molecule (784043) on Friday October 14, @11:38PM (#13795696) (Last Journal: Saturday June 05, @10:08PM) *sings* "..Oodles and Oodles of Noodles, Oodles and Oodles of Noodles.." [ Reply to This ramen! (Score:2) by nanojath (265940) on Friday October 14, @11:48PM (#13795721) (http://itsromebaby.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday August 06, @09:59PM) Carbon Dating has found the remains to be over 4000 years oldI'm pretty sure some of the Smack ramen I subsisted on in college was pretty close to that.