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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods
CBS News
By Caitlin O'Kane
Updated on: May 4, 2023 / 2:38 PM / CBS News
Imagine going for a leisurely hike and stumbling upon mounds of pasta in the woods.
It seems highly unlikely, unless you were recently walking near the river basin in Old Bridge, New Jersey, where hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta were dumped in the area last month. Their origins remain a mystery.
Nina Jochnowitz, who is running for city council in the town of about 66,000 posted images of the piles of pasta in a Facebook group, thanking the public works department for cleaning up the estimated 500-pound mess.
In her post, she criticized the mayor, saying he ignored the situation. Jochnowitz is running on a platform of cleaning up the waterways and environment in the town and wants to improve waste and recycling services with new initiatives like bulk pickup. CBS News has reached out to Jochnowitz and is awaiting response.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pasta-new-jersey-mysteriously-dumped-in-old-bridge-woods/
Could this be a Pastafarian plot?
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Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods (Original Post)
Wicked Blue
May 2023
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niyad
(116,413 posts)1. An FSM ritual? Where are the wine and cheese?
Wicked Blue
(6,197 posts)2. More importantly, where's the sauce?
niyad
(116,413 posts)4. You are quite correct.
debm55
(27,470 posts)8. And the parmesan cheese?
live love laugh
(13,795 posts)7. FSM strikes again!
brush
(55,425 posts)3. Stay out of it, Nina Jochnowitz. Sounds like a story line for "The Sopranos."
It is Jersey.
Nictuku
(3,720 posts)5. Pastafarianism!!
exboyfil
(17,900 posts)6. Pasta and New Jersey
Obviously the mob is involved.
SergeStorms
(19,222 posts)9. FSM discovered napping in forest.
I hope they didn't wake His Noodliness! 😵?💫
Not Heidi
(1,399 posts)10. Sure that's not a discarded rug from TFG? n/t
Bayard
(23,001 posts)11. Aliens were obviously involved
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)12. This is just what happens when
His noodliness shaves after cave-man-noodling it up around the universe for a while.
Nothing to see here. Not the droids youre looking for. Move along.
AKwannabe
(5,871 posts)13. Newsworthy in the Pastafarians group
Gave ya a cross post.
Hehe
niyad
(116,413 posts)19. That was fun!
rsdsharp
(9,541 posts)14. Probably overcooked,
and/or whole wheat.
Wicked Blue
(6,197 posts)15. A guy names Al Dente was in on it
rsdsharp
(9,541 posts)16. His mob name is "Toothy."
diva77
(7,861 posts)21. Police are now on the lookout for a large runaway meatball
sl8
(15,454 posts)17. Seems like there should be a koan to be found in this somewhere
If a pile of pasta appears in the New Jersey woods ....
underpants
(184,171 posts)18. Give it 3 days.
Lets see what happens.
niyad
(116,413 posts)20. Snicker.
303squadron
(621 posts)22. His Wheatness cooks in mysterious ways
Wicked Blue
(6,197 posts)23. Another photo shows MUCH more pasta was dumped
The Washington Post's photo showsthe extent of the spurned spaghetti
Pharlo
(1,825 posts)24. Dumped pasta in Jersey
and an emergency meeting in Italy on why the cost of pasta is increasing. Is is a mere coincidence? I think not.
intrepidity
(7,641 posts)25. I'd think the squirrels, raccoons, birds etc would eat it?
No?
Or maybe the fungi? Somehow it would turn into the forest floor.