Spaghetti harvest overdue?

[pmv]

Hundreds of pounds of pasta dumped near New Jersey stream

Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they're no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped near a stream

www.independent.co.uk

Perhaps it wasn't an April Fool after all?

 

[Charmonium]

OMG that's worthy of Monty Python

I've heard of the spaghetti weevil. Nasty little bvgger.

People don't know that all of the other pastas really come from spaghetti. After harvest and while still malleable, it is mashed and remolded. But that gives it a slightly different texture. It's very subtle but you may have noticed.

While we're on the topic, the meatball harvest comes much later in the season since it is the byproduct of predatory plants in the Venus flytrap family. Not something you want to witness though. Much more disturbing than seeing sausage being made.

 

[IronWing]

The spaghetti harvest film was carried by one of the American networks soon after the BBC broadcast it. My mom still recalls seeing the film 65 years later.

 

[IronWing]

OMG that's worthy of Monty Python

I've heard of the spaghetti weevil. Nasty little bvgger.

People don't know that all of the other pastas really come from spaghetti. After harvest and while still malleable, it is mashed and remolded. But that gives it a slightly different texture. It's very subtle but you may have noticed.

While we're on the topic, the meatball harvest comes much later in the season since it is the byproduct of predatory plants in the Venus flytrap family. Not something you want to witness though. Much more disturbing than seeing sausage being made.

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed…

 

[pmv]

The spaghetti harvest film was carried by one of the American networks soon after the BBC broadcast it. My mom still recalls seeing the film 65 years later.

Did they carry it knowingly? As I understand it, a lot of people believed the original broadcast - it was "The BBC", after all, and at that time a lot of people were entirely unfamiliar with exotic foreign food like spaghetti, which was only for sophisticated upper-class folk (I think WW2 rationing had only just ended a couple of years before).

I assume Americans were a little bit more cosmopolitan in their culinary taste/knowledge, so not so easily fooled?

 

[Charmonium]

Oh, the Italians had been coming over for a while. My mother was second generation. I don't think many people hadn't at least heard of it. But I can see people believing it.

Now potato gnocchi, that's a bit more "exotic."

 

[VirtualLarry]

The Pastafarians talk about the final Great Harvest, before the Noodley One appears.

 

[Captante]

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed…

It rolled off the table... and onto the floor.

And then my poor meatball, rolled out of the door!

 

[VirtualLarry]

And then my poor meatball, rolled out of the door!

And then became a Governor!

 

[Charmonium]

Trump refuses to use meatball Ron for deSantis.

Party pooper.