History in the making

A little while ago the chef who lived next door moved out. It was a fairly quick move - helped by his two flatmates having left him in the lurch. He threw out all their rubbish as well but unfortunately the strata's bins were not big enough to contain everything and many items overflowed. When we realised he was gone and the rubbish hadn't, we arranged for a Council (free) rubbish pick-up. The only down side was that the Council will only collect rubbish at the kerb so we had to move it all including electric rice cooker complete with baked in rice. Maybe we wouldn't have been so hasty to throw it away if we'd realised what we held was history in the making. All we needed to do was wait a few years and then this item from BBC News may have been us: Oldest noodles unearthed! The remains of a 4,000-year-old noodle meal have been discovered in an upturned pot next to China's Yellow River.