Chinese Noodle Dinner Buried for 2,500 Years

Discovery News ^ | November 19, 2010 | Jennifer Viegas

[decimon]

Noodles, moon cakes and other foods dating to 2,500 years ago were recently unearthed in a Chinese cemetery.

Noodles, cakes, porridge, and meat bones dating to around 2,500 years ago were recently unearthed at a Chinese cemetery, according to a paper that will appear in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Since the cakes were cooked in an oven-like hearth, the findings suggest that the Chinese may have been among the world's first bakers. Prior research determined the ancient Egyptians were also baking bread at around the same time, but this latest discovery indicates that individuals in northern China were skillful bakers who likely learned baking and other more complex cooking techniques much earlier.

[bunkerhill7]

Chinese Noodle Dinner Buried for 2,500 Years after delivery boy stuck in 500 mile-long Guangzhou traffic jam

[marsh2]

You know, blam, that some of the Welsh and the Irish also have epicanthic eye folds. The female line of my family has a suggestion of the folds through Welsh ancestors. Wonder if the Sami came down into Great Britain or raided there.

[pillut48]

LOLOL!!

Now *that* right there was funny, yes it was! ;-)

[BunnySlippers]

Harumph!

[blam]

Professor Stephan Oppenheimer did a DNA study of the whole of Britain and he said that some of the DNA between Scotland and Finland are so closely related that he is sure that they were once members of a community that is now seperated by the North Sea. (The villages are presently under the North Sea)

[blam]

Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)

"One site dates back to the late Mesolithic period (8,500 to 5,000 years ago), while the other, found further out to sea at the end of a of a long, rocky outcrop which would have once been a small cliff face, is thought to be early Mesolithic (8,500 to 10,000 years ago)."

"Both sites would once have been on dry land but have been gradually submerged as sea levels rose following the end of the last Ice Age."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I wonder if they found writing near it declaring “No MSG.”

[blam]

My dad's mother, Mrs Smith, has the same (U5a) mtDNA (female) as this guy. U5a mtDNA has a very high percentage amongst the Sa'ami as does mtDNA 'V', which I have. I've been told my whole adult life that I look like Paul Newman. My yDNA (male) is R1b.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Monkey Face]

Be sure to check all food for freshness when eating at a Chinese restaurant.

[married21]

I’m glad you mentioned that. My son, of mixed Northern European background, looked really Asian as a baby and toddler. He has almond shaped eyes and high cheekbones. Asian women would ask me if my husband was Asian. I wonder if he has some of that ancient ethnic influence on his Irish side.

[The Comedian]

5-10-minutes ping...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[LibertyRocks]

I wonder if it looked like this? ;)

[Larry Lucido]

Mmmm, moon cakes!

[Larry Lucido]

2500 years later: “Changfeld, four!”

[grey_whiskers]

That's nothing. You should see the back of my fridge.

Cheers!

[eartrumpet]

“I’ll buy day old bread. I’m drawing the line at 2,500 year old bread. “

In about 1980 my dad and I found a C ration(?) can in an old cabin, containing a dinner roll, dated 1944, I think. It hung around the basement for about 5 years and one night we decided to open it. The roll came out golden brown and fairly soft and we each tried a bite. He said it tasted just like they did when he was in the Army in WWII.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d often wondered why there’s no expiry date on the packages.

My favorite is Maruchan Roasted Chicken flavor.