Now That's what I call an old meal

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Chinese Noodle Dinner Buried for 2,500 Years

By Jennifer Viegas


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.

"With the use of fire and grindstones, large amounts of cereals were consumed and transformed into staple foods," lead author Yiwen Gong and his team wrote in the paper.

Gong, a researcher at the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team dug up the foods at the Subeixi Cemeteries in the Turpan District of Xinjiang, China. This important cultural communication center between East and Central China has a desert climate.

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-chinese-dinner-archaeology.html

[Ken Burch]

1. Did they carbon-date the eggrolls?

n/t.

[MineralMan]

2. Looks like something my ex mother-in-law served one evening.

kaboom-shhh!

[Duer 157099]

3. Well now there's something to go with those thousand year old eggs

Yum!

[Canuckistanian]

4. And they found an ancient sign that said "3 Served"

[LibertyLover]

5. So in other words it dates to roughly 500 BCE, give or take a few years

Interesting - however the Egyptians and the Sumerians and the Akkadians were baking bread long before 500 BCE and so too I wager were the Chinese. I wonder if those moon cakes tasted as bad as the moon cakes I got a few years back. Even my daughter who is from China and usually loves all foods Chinese took one bite and turned up her nose at them.

[xchrom]

6. And then? Nt

[damntexdem]

7. Reminds me of my lunch today.

Damned microwave!

;-)

[Orsino]

8. Sure, but a century later, you're hungry again. n/t

[chillspike]

9. lmao

I was going to try to say something funny but then I saw your post at the bottom. Can't top that! Good one! LOL.

[Sancho]

10. a little MSG goes a long way....

:)