Noodles of the World (1)

This tasty food can take many forms

When were noodles invented? For a long time, no one knew. They have been a popular food in many parts of the world for 2,000 years. References to noodles appear in a book written sometime between A.D. 25 and 220 in China. A fifth-century text from the Middle East also mentions them. But in 2005 a 4,000-year-old bowl of noodles was discovered in China. This earliest known example of the food was made from ground millet. Since that time, noodles have spread around the world.

East and Southeast Asia

Noodles are still popular in China although they have changed a bit. Today most Chinese noodles are made from wheat. But some are made from rice or other things.

Several types of noodles are eaten in Japan. These include thin, round ramen noodles, thick udon noodles and several types of buckwheat noodles. In Korea noodles are sometimes made from acorns. They can be stir-fried or eaten cold.

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Draw Steve’s childhood, he thought the word acorn with spelled e g g c o r n.

Eh, that’s what I thought people were saying, and I’m not the only one. Today so many people think tree nuts have a connection with chicken eggs that linguists now use this made up word egg corn to describe a word or a phrase that results from mishearing another similar sounding word or phrase.

Egg corns are very similar to puns, the main difference being people who make puns do it intentionally to be funny, people who use egg corns however are unaware they’re making mistake.

Another characteristic of egg corns is that they introduce new meanings that are different from the original but are still plausible. For instance, the egg corn old-timer’s disease. We understand why people might say this instead of Alzheimer’s disease, because everyone associates Alzheimer’s with old age.

Here’s another egg corn, like a bowl in a china shop, at first glance nothing seems wrong with this phrase, it’s perfectly normal that there would be bowls for sale in a porcelain shop.

But actually it should be like a bull in a china shop, a phrase that describes a physically or socially clumsy person in a delicate situation.

Language Lab
reference n.
the act of mentioning something in speech or in writing : the act of referring to something or someone
reference to
- Knowing that Bobby had just been laid off, his friends avoided making nay references to their own jobs.
[noncount] : the act of looking at or in something for information
- Eric kept all the files regarding the project for future reference.

grind v.
/ˈgraɪnd/
grinds; ground /ˈgraʊnd/
to crush or break (something) into very small pieces by rubbing it against a rough surface or using a special machine
- The chef ground the corn with a food processor.
adj.
- Add some ground pepper to the top of the salad.

wheat n.
a kind of grain that is used to make flour for breads, cookies, etc
- Wheat is the main resource of food for the people of this region.
- Sam only eats whole-wheat bread. He doesn't like white bread.

stir-fry v.
to fry (something) quickly over high heat while stirring it constantly
- Stir-fry the beef for one to two minutes, and then add the broccoli.
- Tina stir-fried the onion with chicken.
stir-fry n.
a dish made of foods (such as meat or vegetables) that are fried quickly over high heat while being stirred constantly
- The restaurants' stir-fries are famous for their taste and reasonable prices.

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