NJ Town Is Baffled by Mysterious Piles of Pasta

Nearly 500 pounds of cooked noodles were mysteriously dumped near an Old Bridge stream in New Jersey.

Sure, we've all made the mistake of measuring out too much pasta for dinner at one time or another. But apparently someone messed up big time - 500 pounds of pasta were found dumped beside a New Jersey stream. The giant piles of cooked elbow macaroni, spaghetti, and ziti stretched for over 25 feet in a wooded area of Old Bridge. Since it has been cleaned up and carried away, no one is sure how it ended up there in the first place!

A concerned citizen reached out to political activist and former city council candidate Nina Jochnowitz to alert her about the baffling amount of pasta. "It looked like someone filled up a wheelbarrow of pasta and dumped it," she told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jochnowitz contacted the Old Bridge town administrator and the city's Department of Public Works, and the pasta was removed within two days.

Still got some questions about this mysterious pasta dump? You're not alone!

For starters, no one knows who dumped the pasta, when they tossed it streamside, or why. Was it cooked prior to being dumped? Or was it cooked from the moisture of sitting out in the rain?

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According to an update from NBC New York on May 5, 2023, the pasta was seemingly discarded by a man who was emptying out his mother's home after her death. "I mean, I really feel like he was just trying to clear out his parents' house and they were probably stocked up from COVID," Keith Rost, a man who lived in the neighborhood, said. "My grandparents always had a cupboard full of cans and pasta, just to be safe." The outlet also said that the pasta was abandoned before it was cooked and that it had indeed just gotten waterlogged after heavy rains last weekend.