More Noodles to Get Steamed About

The fact that a bowl of noodles can sit around for 4,000 years continues to bother me. Maybe they were passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom. And, if so, what kind of family heirloom does that make? An uneaten bowl of noodles (and believe me, you wouldn’t want to eat it after it’s more than a week old, much less more than a week old) doesn’t exactly serve as anything of much use. I suspect it would be the gift that comes after the oldest getting the property, the second oldest geting the jewelry, all the way down to the youngest getting the bowl of noodles. The fact that it survived all this time without the people inheriting it throwing it at siblings in itself is an amazing thing.