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

[Wicked Blue]

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?

[niyad]

1. An FSM ritual? Where are the wine and cheese?

[Wicked Blue]

2. More importantly, where's the sauce?

[niyad]

4. You are quite correct.

[debm55]

8. And the parmesan cheese?

[live love laugh]

7. FSM strikes again!

[brush]

3. Stay out of it, Nina Jochnowitz. Sounds like a story line for "The Sopranos."

It is Jersey.

[Nictuku]

5. Pastafarianism!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

[exboyfil]

6. Pasta and New Jersey

Obviously the mob is involved.

[SergeStorms]

9. FSM discovered napping in forest.

I hope they didn't wake His Noodliness! 😵‍💫

[Not Heidi]

10. Sure that's not a discarded rug from TFG? n/t

[Bayard]

11. Aliens were obviously involved

[MutantAndProud]

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 you’re looking for. Move along.

[AKwannabe]

13. Newsworthy in the Pastafarians group

Gave ya a cross post.

Hehe

[niyad]

19. That was fun!

[rsdsharp]

14. Probably overcooked,

and/or whole wheat.

[Wicked Blue]

15. A guy names Al Dente was in on it

[rsdsharp]

16. His mob name is "Toothy."

[diva77]

21. Police are now on the lookout for a large runaway meatball

[sl8]

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]

18. Give it 3 days.

Let’s see what happens.

[niyad]

20. Snicker.

[303squadron]

22. His Wheatness cooks in mysterious ways

[Wicked Blue]

23. Another photo shows MUCH more pasta was dumped

The Washington Post's photo showsthe extent of the spurned spaghetti

[Pharlo]

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]

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.