Food Fight

Here's a fascinating Associated Press article I found today.
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Chinese scientists unearth four-thousand-year-old noodle dish

BEIJING (AP) - Who invented noodles first? A discovery in western China could bolster the argument that the Chinese came up with pasta before the the Italians.

Researchers have found a 4,000 year old clump of yellow noodles inside an overturned bowl in China. The noodles had been made from a dough of two local varieties of millet. The bowl had become sealed with clay, so the noodles were preserved.

A Chinese researcher says they're definitely the earliest noodles ever found.

The researcher says the Chinese and Italians have always been at odds over who invented noodles, but says the disagreements were always based on personal accounts and menus -- not actual material like this.