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[weidermen]

who invented noodles?
I mean, how do you come up with something like that?

I wish I could just invent something out of the blue like that.

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[trabdor]

some guy who got tired of eating just flower and water

[weidermen]

flower? are you serious?

I'll just pretend that you wrote flour.

history lesson

[trabdor]

if you care that damn much here's pasta:
http://www.porkpeople.com/accompas_history.html

noodles:
http://www.porkpeople.com/accomnoo_history.html

there ya go. questions answered.

Re: history lesson

[weidermen]

no, that's not specific enough.

I was well aware that noodles were invented in China. That's not the point.

The point is that some dude had to decide to take flour and water, mix them, cut that dough into strands, and boil it.

The guy who came up with cutting it into strands was a genious. That's all I'm saying.

[bluebarracuda]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't just out of the blue.

The History of Noodles.

[tsukimaru]

Some Chinese guys thought it was a good idea to make some long stringy things but didn't actually think string was going to taste good so they spent years perfecting the recipe for what they were calling "oodles", when when Christopher Columbus came to China he brought the "oodles" back to Italy where everyone thought they would taste fucking excellent with tomato sauce, which turned out to be true, and they called it "spagetti" which is Italian for "Totally Awesome Noodles with Tomato Sauce", and continued to make literally thousands of noodle dishes, it is at this point I will add that the term "noodle" was invented in Italy, because Christopher Columbus's tech guys mistranslated the Chinese text that was scribbled on the barrel of "oodles". Way before this though, the Japanese were coming to China because China had actually owned the lower part of Japan we now know as Okinawa (which is true) and they had brought their cuisine over to Okinawa so they wouldn't forget the taste of home, even though they wre technically still in a