Ramen noodles with a lo-o-o-ong shelf-life
Ancient noodle rewrites history
NewScientist.com….discovery of a pot of thin yellow noodles preserved for 4000 years in Yellow river silt….”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…
“Ramen” noodles form the base of the Japanese salaryman’s Food Pyramid—-the pyramid’s three major food groups being tobacco, alcohol, and ramen.
These noodles are a major reason for Japan having the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world. Traditional Japanese zuzu sucking (hoovering up) hot MSG-trainted ramen. Besides the bad bacteria (see “Nobel Prize for showing why Japanese have ulcers”), stress and alcohol attacking stomach linings of Japan, the “mechnical causes” burning the stomach lining by sucking and slurping down hot noddles is terrible. In addition, to improve flavor of foods, MSG works as a SOLVENT to remove the uppermost layers of mucus covering your taste buds.
Bottom Line: My ex-neighbor, a real-life Ochanomizu-hakase in cancer says: “No sucking down shots of super-hot sake, cup ramen or green tea.”
Also see the 3Yen reports:
Hyperactive Candied Choco-Ramen
Soon, Ramen in Uranus?–”Japanese Noodle Filming in Space
In addition, check out the Wikipedia’s entry on “Ramen”.
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October 13th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
I’m going to beat Nissin Noddle Corporation to the punch and trademark the phrase, “Flavor-aged and Sealed in Silt(tm)”