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The Original General Tso’s Noodles

By Callimachus | Related entries in History, Kitchen Sink

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Archeologists excavating an ancient Chinese settlement turned over an upside-down clay bowl and found a surprise: this small pile of well-preserved noodles.

The bowl lay under 10 feet of sediment in the ruins of a small community beside the Yellow River that was destroyed by an earthquake about 4,000 years ago. That’s about 2,100 years earlier than any evidence of human noodle-making, at least in China.

When the archeologists examined the starch grains and microscopic mineral particles that form in plants called “phytoliths,” they received another surprise: the ancient noodles were not made from wheat like modern noodles, but from millet, a type of grain that, along with rice, formed the foundation of agriculture in ancient China.

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2 Responses to “The Original General Tso’s Noodles”

the english guy Says:
October 13th, 2005 at 8:35 am
So now we have absolute evidence His Noodly Appendage WAS here … You’d better get some more evidence and pics before this gets taken to Area 51 :)
Justin Gardner Says:
October 13th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Ha ha! Nice.

All hail the great and powerful FSM. His way is the only way.

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