New Jersey Town Baffled By Mysterious Piles of Pasta

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https://www.foodandwine.com/pasta-dump-mystery-old-bridge-new-jersey-7488935#:~:text=The%20giant%20piles%20of%20cooked,there%20in%20the%20first%20place.

Roughly 500 pounds of cooked noodles were dumped near an Old Bridge stream.

We've probably all made the mistake of measuring out a little too much pasta (if there even is such a thing) at one time or another. But apparently someone messed up big time, as 500 pounds of pasta were found dumped beside a New Jersey stream. The giant piles of cooked elbow macaroni, spaghetti, and ziti stretched for over 25 feet in a wooded area of Old Bridge and, although it has since been cleaned up and carried away, no one is sure how it ended up there in the first place.

A concerned (and presumably confused) citizen reached out to political activist and former city council candidate Nina Jochnowitz to alert her about the unwelcome Never-Ending Pasta Bowl. “It looked like someone filled up a wheelbarrow of pasta and dumped it,” she told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jochnowitz contacted the Old Bridge town administrator and the city’s Department of Public Works, and the pasta was removed from its resting place within two days. If you have a lot of questions about this scenario, you’re not alone. For starters, no one knows who dumped the pasta, when they chucked it streamside, or why. And Jochnowitz says that the pasta was definitely cooked, and hadn’t just gotten drenched in the rain. She also confirmed to NJ.com that she did not file a police report.

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1. Old News

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181816973

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2. They solved the mystery:

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/08/1174853951/solved-the-mystery-of-the-pasta-in-the-new-jersey-woods

Solved: The mystery of the pasta in the New Jersey woods

May 8, 2023 4:41 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
By Kat Lonsdorf, Matt Ozug