the oldest noodle found
There is a fever for beef noodle in Taiwan. In Japan, there is Ramen, and in Taiwan, we have beef noodle. I wonder how noodle 2000 years ago taste like?
中央社台北八日電）中國大陸青海省喇家遺址出土的麵條狀遺存，是小米做成的麵條，考古專家說，這是迄今為止人類所知最早的麵條。據新華社報導，青海民和喇家遺址在二零零二年發掘出土了一碗麵條狀遺物，青海省文物考古研究所人員蔡林海表示，出土時，紅陶碗倒扣在地面上，碗裡積滿了泥土，揭開陶碗時，發現碗裡存有遺物。這些遺物看來像是麵條狀的食物，但是已經風化，只尚存像蟬翼一樣薄薄的表皮，不過麵條的卷曲纏繞的原狀，還依然保持一定的形態。蔡林海說，麵條全部附著在後來滲進陶碗裡的泥土之上，泥土使陶碗密封起來，陶碗倒扣，因此得以保存下來。喇家遺址的考古隊對這個發現非常重視，帶回北京鑒定，中國科學院地質與地球物理研究所人員呂厚遠，鑒定了土壤中的植物硅酸體和澱粉形態，並且用八十多種不同植物進行對比，最終確認食物的成分是小米（粟）。考古人員還透過民俗調查，瞭解了小米麵可以加工成麵條。中國北方一些農村，在沒有小麥白麵加工麵條的情況下，現在還有用小米磨麵加工麵條的情況。由於喇家遺址距今約四千年，專家認為，這是迄今最早的麵條遺存。從形態上看，喇家遺址出土的麵條像拉麵，斷面近似圓形，但還不能肯定這就是拉麵。蔡林海說，「估計這個麵條可能是用某種簡單的工具壓製而成的。」考古研究顯示，喇家遺址是中國罕見的史前多種災難併發遺址，這裡曾經發生了地震和洪水災害，瞬間的災難，使得一些少見的遺物能夠保存下來
posted by flyingufooo @ 11/07/2005 09:29:00 PM
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i am not in taiwan and i crave for ramen and beef noodle...
A Doctor was addressing a large audience:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long- term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."
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Voodoo Enronomics
Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
Communism: You have two cows. You must take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
Enron Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt-equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred through an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Enron annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
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