Uh-oh! Spaghetti-O!
Residents of a New Jersey town were left confused last week after hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta noodles mysteriously appeared along a creek bed in a wooded area.
She shared images of the dumped pasta online. Noodles ranged from elbow macaroni to spaghetti.
Soon after her post, and after she reported the ordeal to the town, Jochnowitz detailed that the area’s Public Works cleared the pasta from the area.
Nina Jochnowitz for Old Bridge
“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” she told thePhiladelphiaInquirer. “That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply. … It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.”
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Though the pasta was removed, the internet is forever and Jochnowitz’s post has already garnered hilarious takes from social media users who questioned how the food got there in the first place.
“Is it possible that someone might have just tripped and their pocket spaghetti fell out?” one user wrote on Reddit, as another said, “It was pasta expiration date.”
One other poked fun at the ordeal with another pun, writing, “We should send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary.”
“No, it’s clearly Big Anthony. Strega Nona would NEVER let pasta go to waste like that,” one person commented in response.
source: people.com
