The BBC and New Scientist report that archaeologists have unearthed the remains of the world's oldest noodles in China:

The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.

Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.

As many people noted in the MetaFilter thread, this discovery was celebrated by Pastafarians, some of which hail the relics "the only preserved noodly appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster." Ramen.