Neighbor claims that a veteran was behind pounds of pasta dumped in the woods
Cooked pasta found near creek. (Nina Jochnowitz/Old Bridge/Facebook)
A local resident claimed that a veteran, in the process of moving out of a home, left hundreds of pounds of pasta out in the woods. The home is up for sale, and the veteran’s mother recently passed away. This pasta wasn’t the hardened “before cooking” pasta, but pasta that had already been cooked or precooked. This story was posted on social media, drawing a lot of pasta related jokes.
From Fox News:
The mystery of who dumped hundreds of pounds of pasta in a wooded area of New Jersey has reportedly been solved.
Middlesex County residents said the noodles came from an Old Bridge home that is up for sale.
A neighbor told WNBC that a military veteran who is moving out of the house after the death of his mother seemingly found a stockpile of old food there.
“I mean, I really feel like he was just trying to clear out his parents’ house, and they were probably stocked up from COVID,” neighbor Keith Rost told the station, saying it’s generational.
He noted that his grandparents always had a cupboard full of cans and pasta “just to be safe.”
“I just moved in right next door, so that would have been a big mess to start cleaning all the flies in the house, maggots,” Rost added.
Pictures of the pasta — which has since been hauled away from the banks of the Iresick Brook, with the Department of Environmental Protection reporting no harm — went viral on social media this week.
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“after the death of his mother”
Poor woman pastaway….
Weird.
Kinda makes me fettuccini afraido.
I hear it now, Yankee Noodle…
Sung by Al Dente.
“he was just trying to clear out his parents’ house”
Probably had to elbow his way in.
Dat’s a good one.
“veteran’s mother recently passed away”
She was said to have angel hair.
Chef Boyardee wept. (Generation Kill clip: NSFW sex/violence/and four letter word Marine speak)
Y’all with the jokes, I knead to gnocchi it off before someone gets boiling mad.
Al Dente was no where to be found.
Basil and Tom Ato too.
Just being a pesto. Spread it around.
The puns are driving me (pine) nuts.
I’ve had enouogh of these saucy puns from you meatballs.
It was a million to one shot doc, a million to one.
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Out-effing-standing! Thank you.
That kind of humour is one reason I am an anglophile.
ALL THIS SHIT bein-a’ pasta-round, geez!
Sorry, but I can’t past the part where the Dept. of Environmental Protection had to come out and remove PASTA!
Train derailments and spills= it’s all safe to go back!
Detroit Water= it’s Okay!
Pasta= has to be removed!!!
FFS, SMMFH!!!
AH should have been court ordered to clean up that mess!
Wouldn’t it just compost away?
In pig country, would be gone in no time
So, he just cooked all the pasta and dumped it? Makes no sense.
Spaghetti logic.
Bunch of raccoons out there looking at the Dept of Environmental Protection thinking “Dude, I was gonna eat that”