Oldest noodles unearthed in China

[Math Is Hard]

New evidence for early Flying Spaghetti Monster worship...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4335160.stm

The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.
Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.

[Bladibla]

Spaghetti Monster

Noo! do you relise what you have done mentioning that name?

[Math Is Hard]

Noo! do you relise what you have done mentioning that name?
uh oh...:uhh: :redface:

[Smurf]

Do you think that 2,000 years from now archaologists will think there was a significant cult that worshipped a flying spaghetti monster in the southern US?

[Math Is Hard]

Do you think that 2,000 years from now archaologists will think there was a significant cult that worshipped a flying spaghetti monster in the southern US?
We have a different deity in the part of the South that I hail from:
http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/09/27/colonel_zoom.jpg

[comwiz72]

lol

i sometimes wonder what exactly future generations (if there ARE any :bugeye: ) will say about US...

[zoobyshoe]

New evidence for early Flying Spaghetti Monster worship...
Essentially, what we have here are mummified noodles. This raises the issue of a potential curse.

[motai]

The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.
Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.

Are they still edible :confused:.

[Math Is Hard]

Motai, I volunteer you to taste test the "noodle fossils".

I find it interesting as to what "leftovers" say about our species. For instance, last night in my biology class, we saw a film about how humans might have lived and begun to migrate 150,000 years ago. Their path of migration was traced through both mitochondrial DNA and the mounds of discarded seafood remains along coastal regions, suggesting that they travelled coastally out of Africa into other regions.

No doubt future generations will ponder the discarded red and white striped buckets and speculate about their significance in our feeding and religious rituals.

[honestrosewater]

I think MIH is onto something.
The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.If I was caught in a catastrophic flood, I probably wouldn't take the time to bury my noodles. They must have been very special noodles.

[Math Is Hard]

I think MIH is onto something.
If I was caught in a catastrophic flood, I probably wouldn't take the time to bury my noodles. They must have been very special noodles.
:rofl: :biggrin:

I just had to look. A glance through Wikipedia reveals that what appeared to be "pasta-making utensils" were found in the ruins of Pompeii, but alas, no evidence of pasta-burying reported.

[Ivan Seeking]

I think we have some noodles in the pantry that rival this finding.

[mattmns]

That is all the proof I need. I am now a pastafarian: http://www.venganza.org/forum/images/smiles/worship.gif http://www.venganza.org/forum/images/smiles/fsm7.gif

[matthyaouw]

Just imagine the peer pressure in the lab:

Steve- I just finished the carbon dating- these are... good grief, 4000 years old!
Al- Eat one.
Steve- Do you realise just how significant this...
Al- Eat one!
Steve- Quit messing around, this is serious!
Al- Just one... Aren't you curious?
Steve- More mortified than curious...
Al- You think you'll ever get a chance like this again?
Steve- Well.....
Al- Won't you always wonder, and wish you had.
Steve- ....You have one too.
Al- Deal!
[munch]
Steve- Tastes like death
Al- Yeah... And sand.
Steve- Yeah...
Al- I'm gonna go throw up.
Steve- Me too.

[cronxeh]

Well.. it took them 4000 years.. and they finally mastered it :biggrin: