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(this was from a couple of years ago, and they did find the guy: https://6abc.com/old-bridge-new-jersey-pasta-dump-spaghetti-mystery-nj-charges/13302928/ )

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a nest. This is where Italians are born.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

👋🤏🤚✋️🫶

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some guy REALLY didn’t know how much spaghetti to make for four people.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I swear officer, it looked like an appropriate amount before I started boiling it.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

They misread and made four people of spaghetti.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do we know it isn't a naturally growing pile of pasta?

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless it's invasive it's pretty unlikely, pasta grows on trees in Switzerland

[–] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

You beat me to it!

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This was actually the flying spaghetti monster, but some Piney bastard was too afraid of his noodelyness and opened fire...

He'll rise again, as his holy carbohydrates ripen with bounty

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if God was you or me? Just a spag pile in Jersey...

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

What if god was one of us?
Throwing over 500 pounds of pasta in a rush?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

NORAD shot down FSM

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because it wasn't cooked. Natural pasta is always in a cooked state, because it hasn't been dried out yet in drying ovens.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

“It’s a-me.”, the man confessed.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pasta 19:1: The heavens declare the glory of spaghetti; the skies proclaim the work of His noodly appendages.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh Great Glob

Send forth your wriggly, jiggly, noodly appendages for your touch does inspire much Globliness

For Cleaniness is closer to Globliness

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our Father, who art in saucepans,

hallowed be thy name;

thy spaghetti come;

thy will be done;

on earth as it is in New Jersey.

Give us this day our garlic bread.

And forgive us our passatas,

as we forgive those who masala against us.

And lead us not into rice tasting;

but deliver us from weevils.

For thine is the pasta,

the meatballs, and the gravy

for ever and ever.

Ramen.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 16 points 1 year ago

Authorities say they were able to dispose of all of the pasta in under an hour.

But at what cost? Specifically, how much marinara and parmesan?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody dumped it. It's just growing naturally there. You didn't know spaghetti just grows out of the ground and needs to be harvested?

[–] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That's incorrect; it grows on trees:

https://youtu.be/8scpGwbvxvI

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Knees were heavy. Mom's spaghetti.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If only someone had an abundance of strainers!

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Disaster al dente off the coast of San Clemente

Travelling with more than one can be a big. .... pain.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

This is just the extra when I tried measuring pasta for one

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Man, theological knowledge among the general population has really taken a dive. People don't even recognize manifestations of the FSM anymore.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Pinworms. It's all pinworms.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They murdered my family and dumped their bodies in a ditch...

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago
[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then was it fresh? That spaghet is noodly.

I guess it also might have rained enough to relax the strands.

Made a big al dente in the ground!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take the ) away from the end of the link.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

The nice Italian man just wanted to feed the animals.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's just a tradition, they do this when one of their greats passes away (James Gandolfini/Tony Soprano).

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's house, who else

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Burnoutdv@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Is that a reverse food heist?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They went and "cleaned" it up? It's biodegradable, they probably put it in a landfill where it's doesn't benefit anything. They could have just left it and it would have been gone in a few weeks.

[–] snail_hunter@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Being biodegradable doesn't mean that it belongs in that environment. This could have messed with the native plants and animals in a bad way. The landfill isn't a great option but it is possible that it was industrially composted.

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I like the Related Topics in the article:

FOOD & DRINK

NEW JERSEY

MYSTERY

PASTA

DUMPING