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Letter: Ancient noodles

Published 9 November 2005

From Alex Forsyth

So an archaeologist lifts a 4000-year-old pot in China and finds noodles preserved underneath (15 October, p 19). It seems, then, that we must honour the Chinese for the discovery of pasta and simultaneously blame them for the invention of the pot noodle.

Farnham, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2525 published 12 November 2005

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