Global Courant 2023-05-05 04:25:13
A New Jersey resident discovered what appeared to be hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta in her local woods last week.
Nina Jochnowitz was walking through a creek near Veterans Park in Old Bridge when she came across piles of cooked spaghetti and macaroni.
Photos show mounds of pasta dumped across about 7.5 meters of forest.
“A good estimate is that more than 500 pounds of pasta was dumped next to the streams that cross Hilliard and Mimi,” Jochnowitz wrote on Facebook.
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Nina Jochnowitz was walking through a creek near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey when she came across piles of cooked pasta. (Nina Jochnowitz for Old Bridge via Facebook)
Jochnowitz said public works employees quickly cleared the noodles after she posted about it on social media. Officials don’t know who dumped the pasta or why.
The pictures were posted on a subreddit dedicated to New Jersey, which resulted in some pasta-related jokes by commentators.
“We need to send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary,” one Reddit user said.
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New Jersey officials don’t know who dumped the pasta in the Old Bridge woods or why. (Nina Jochnowitz for Old Bridge via Facebook)
“Italian grandmothers: why does someone dump four portions of pasta in the woods?” joked another.
While it was a humorous situation, Jonchowitz said the incident highlights the lack of bulky waste collection services in Old Bridge. She also claimed that the pasta mounds could harm the environment.
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Jochnowitz said the pasta mounds could harm the environment. (Nina Jochnowitz for Old Bridge via Facebook)
“You could say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH that affects water flow,” Jochnowitz told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “That stream of water is important to clean because it feeds the city’s water supply… It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.”
