Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods

[Kamaji]

Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods

By Allie Griffin
May 4, 2023

Pasta la vista!

A New Jersey town was awash with mystery after hundreds of pounds of cooked noodles inexplicably appeared along a creek bed in the woods last week — before the town cleaned up the macaroni mess.

Mounds of spaghetti and piles of other pastas, including ziti, were seemingly dumped by the stream near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, according to images posted by resident Nina Jochnowitz last Wednesday.

Jochnowitz, a former council candidate, estimated that there had to be more than 500 pounds of pasta left behind in a Facebook post where she shared the photos of the sauce-less noodles.

Her post was quickly screenshotted and shared on Reddit and Twitter where people from all over joked about the pasta fiasco and theorized its origin story with near-endless pasta-bilities and puns.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/cooked-pasta-mysteriously-dumped-in-new-jersey-woods/

[Kamaji]

[GrouchoTex]

CAN 100,000 GALLONS OF MARINARA SAUCE BE FAR BEHIND?

[Kamaji]

CAN 100,000 GALLONS OF MARINARA SAUCE BE FAR BEHIND?

[andy58-in-nh]

Eh... be a wise guy an' don' ask any questions, right? Larry Linguini sleeps with the fishes and that's all you gotta know.

[bigheadfred]

CAN 100,000 GALLONS OF MARINARA SAUCE BE FAR BEHIND?

Post of the day! 

[240B]

[libertybele]

CAN 100,000 GALLONS OF MARINARA SAUCE BE FAR BEHIND?

That was my question as well.

[Smokin Joe]

And nothing is eating it?
 
Hmmmm....

[GrouchoTex]

Eh... be a wise guy an' don' ask any questions, right? Larry Linguini sleeps with the fishes and that's all you gotta know.

Larry Linguini may be sleeping under all that pasta.

[catfish1957]

Larry Linguini may be sleeping under all that pasta.

Larry sure wasn't using his noodle was he......

[Kamaji]

[bigheadfred]

Yankee Noodle on his way back from town.

[Free Vulcan]

Leave the pasta, take the cannoli.

[libertybele]

Yankee Noodle on his way back from town.

And there you have it folks, mystery solved.   

[GrouchoTex]

Larry sure wasn't using his noodle was he......

 

[Gefn]

Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods

By Allie Griffin
May 4, 2023

Pasta la vista!

A New Jersey town was awash with mystery after hundreds of pounds of cooked noodles inexplicably appeared along a creek bed in the woods last week — before the town cleaned up the macaroni mess.

Mounds of spaghetti and piles of other pastas, including ziti, were seemingly dumped by the stream near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, according to images posted by resident Nina Jochnowitz last Wednesday.

Jochnowitz, a former council candidate, estimated that there had to be more than 500 pounds of pasta left behind in a Facebook post where she shared the photos of the sauce-less noodles.

Her post was quickly screenshotted and shared on Reddit and Twitter where people from all over joked about the pasta fiasco and theorized its origin story with near-endless pasta-bilities and puns.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/cooked-pasta-mysteriously-dumped-in-new-jersey-woods/

@Kamaji

I was just about to post this. I heard about it right before I went to bed last night.

Old Bridge? Maybe it was someone who wanted to feed the bears and deer? Or a delivery to the Woodbridge Mall and got lost?

[Gefn]

Macaroni Mystery solved: Illegal pasta dump in Old Bridge, NJ explained

OLD BRIDGE — The mystery behind who dumped 500 pounds of uncooked pasta in the woods next to a stream in the Middlesex County township, apparently has been solved.

According to NBC 4 New York, neighbors said the “oodles of noodles” came from a nearby house that is up for sale.

A military veteran moving out of his mother’s home after her death found the stockpile of pasta such as spaghetti, ziti, and alphabet noodles that she kept in the house, so he tossed it.

https://nj1015.com/pasta-dump-old-bridge-new-jersey-may-2023/

[Kamaji]

Macaroni Mystery solved: Illegal pasta dump in Old Bridge, NJ explained



https://nj1015.com/pasta-dump-old-bridge-new-jersey-may-2023/

Wow.  Why didn't he try to donate it to a food pantry instead?  Pasta generally doesn't go bad very quickly.

[Gefn]

Wow.  Why didn't he try to donate it to a food pantry instead?  Pasta generally doesn't go bad very quickly.

I’m actually upset that he didn’t donate all that pasta to a food pantry, too.

@Kamaji

[Kamaji]

I’m actually upset that he didn’t donate all that pasta to a food pantry, too.

@Kamaji

I hope he had a good reason.

[roamer_1]

The State Department of Public Works cleaned up the noodles from the illegal dump within an hour using 15 wheelbarrows and the town’s mayor, Owen Henry said the case is now closed.

Read More: Mystery behind the illegal pasta dump in Old Bridge is solved | https://nj1015.com/pasta-dump-old-bridge-new-jersey-may-2023/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

... Annnnd took it all to the dump, where it won't do anyone any good.

[sneakypete]

Wow.  Why didn't he try to donate it to a food pantry instead?  Pasta generally doesn't go bad very quickly.

@Kamaji

That was the question I was going to ask,as well.

Besides doing a "solid" for the homeless,he could have gotten some sort of tax write-off for the donation.

Makes no sense at all to me to throw  edible food away.

[sneakypete]

... Annnnd took it all to the dump, where it won't do anyone any good.

@roamer_1

Well,the mice and rats will be too fat to run away.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

Well,the mice and rats will be too fat to run away.

@sneakypete

My point being that nature would have feasted... And it would all be gone anyway in a week.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

My point being that nature would have feasted... And it would all be gone anyway in a week.

@roamer_1

True.

[Smokin Joe]

If that stash had been in storage for any length of time, it may not have been good to eat, especially without oxygen absorbers, etc. I am doubting that was all fresh.

[roamer_1]

If that stash had been in storage for any length of time, it may not have been good to eat, especially without oxygen absorbers, etc. I am doubting that was all fresh.

To my knowledge, noodles don't go bad. Not any time soon.

[Smokin Joe]

To my knowledge, noodles don't go bad. Not any time soon.

Most sources say dried pasta properly stored (cool, dry place) lasts for a couple of years past the 'use by' date. Sealed in glass or mylar with oxygen absorbers, I'd go almost indefinite (out of sunlight, cool, dry place). But the store shelf packaging, with less than optimum conditions, and allowing for the presence of bugs, the person throwing it out may have had good reason to doubt it, and might have figured the critters would eat it instead.
Mice might have gotten into that pantry, too.
It doesn't look like there were any critters getting fat off of it, either...maybe the rats at the dump.

[roamer_1]

Most sources say dried pasta properly stored (cool, dry place) lasts for a couple of years past the 'use by' date. Sealed in glass or mylar with oxygen absorbers, I'd go almost indefinite (out of sunlight, cool, dry place). But the store shelf packaging, with less than optimum conditions, and allowing for the presence of bugs, the person throwing it out may have had good reason to doubt it, and might have figured the critters would eat it instead.
Mice might have gotten into that pantry, too.
It doesn't look like there were any critters getting fat off of it, either...maybe the rats at the dump.

Huh... I use noodles WAY past the sell-by date... No special storage... Just leave em in their store-bought bags, and them bags together in a sealed 5gal bucket... I dunno if I ever put an O2 absorber in the buckets... I might have. And them buckets rotate forward... But then, they ARE proper noodles... None of em 'fast cook' up in here. I literally pay no mind to the date.

Noodles, rice, and beans... I keep em around. They are the cheapest and keep the longest.

[Smokin Joe]

Huh... I use noodles WAY past the sell-by date... No special storage... Just leave em in their store-bought bags, and them bags together in a sealed 5gal bucket... I dunno if I ever put an O2 absorber in the buckets... I might have. And them buckets rotate forward... But then, they ARE proper noodles... None of em 'fast cook' up in here. I literally pay no mind to the date.

Noodles, rice, and beans... I keep em around. They are the cheapest and keep the longest.

I have loads of rice and beans, sealed, with oxygen absorbers, in buckets, in a dark pantry that stays about the same temp year-round. Should be good for years yet.

Noodles don't last that long around here, not long enough to get up a pile that size. Maybe I should buy more, but generally, the three of us go through about 25 lbs of pasta a year.

[roamer_1]

I have loads of rice and beans, sealed, with oxygen absorbers, in buckets, in a dark pantry that stays about the same temp year-round. Should be good for years yet.

Noodles don't last that long around here, not long enough to get up a pile that size. Maybe I should buy more, but generally, the three of us go through about 25 lbs of pasta a year.

I go through a bit... Goulash, spaghetti, and chicken/tuna/hamburger casseroles. Mac and Cheese... Nothing special though... Flat, elbow macaroni, and spaghetti noodles are all I store in bulk...

[Smokin Joe]

I go through a bit... Goulash, spaghetti, and chicken/tuna/hamburger casseroles. Mac and Cheese... Nothing special though... Flat, elbow macaroni, and spaghetti noodles are all I store in bulk...

Something Mrs. Joe turned me on to was elbow spaghetti. It's like a thinner, tighter macaroni, and doesn't fall apart as fast in soup or even mac and cheese. It's getting harder to find around here, though and about once a year I order in a case.