thin yellow ramen noodles with a loooong shelf-life

[Taro Toporific]

Ancient noodle rewrites history
NewScientist.com, 15 October 2005
....discovery of a pot of thin yellow noodles preserved for 4000 years in Yellow river silt may have tipped the bowl in China's favour. It suggests that people were eating noodles at least 1000 years earlier than previously thought, and many centuries before such dishes were documented in Europe.
"These are undoubtedly the oldest noodles ever found," says Houyuan Lu at China's Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing. His team found the noodles buried 3 metres deep in flood-plain sediment at Lajia in north-eastern China after lifting out an upturned bowl. The "spaghetti-like" noodles, up to 50 centimetres long, sat atop a mound of silt which had sealed them in the bowl following a major earthquake and flood...more...

[Greji]

Could they read any of the writing on the paper cup the noodles were in?

[Spidey]

Man!! Those ramen packets really do last forever.

S

[GomiGirl]

Last forever and still toxic!!

[Taro Toporific]

Ancient noodle rewrites history
NewScientist.com, 15 October 2005
.... The "spaghetti-like" noodles, up to 50 centimetres long, sat atop a mound of silt which had sealed them in the bowl following a major earthquake and flood

I'm going to beat Nissin Noddle Corp. to the punch and trademark the phrase, "Flavor-aged and Sealed in Silt(tm)".

[Cubed]

Has this been verified by anyone outside China? There's a politico-cultural reason for claiming noodle ancestry and I'm skeptical.

"Chinese scientists claim Chinese really are descended from heavenly angels" (According to the researchers at the People's State Archeological Institute), "6000 year old microprocessor found in Hubei Province" (according to the researchers at the People's Scientific Advancement Institute)

Whatever ...