By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 05/05/2023 at 21:01, updated 05/05/2023 at 22:02
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Hundreds of kilos of pasta were illegally dumped in a wooded area near New York, USA, on May 5, 2023. Volodymyr Shevchuk / stock.adobe.com
Police in a New Jersey city are trying to understand how hundreds of pounds of pasta were illegally dumped in a wooded corner of this New York suburb. The mystery, reported by local newspapers and the New York Times for the past few days, dates back to last week when a walker posted to Facebook photos of several piles of spaghetti, macaroni and noodle shells in a small wooded area on the edge of a waterway in the City of Old Bridge, near metropolitan New York.
Noodles “thrown at the edge of the creek”
That’s the equivalent of “fifteen wheelbarrows” or “several hundred (kilo) uncooked noodles that were taken out of the packaging and thrown at the edge of the creek,” city official Himanshu Shah confirmed to AFP on Friday. Once the images circulating on social media were authenticated, city officials and police were dispatched to the scene.
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New Jersey, a state bordering New York across the Hudson River, is known for being home to many communities of European descent, particularly Americans of Italian descent. About 17% of the population claim to have Italian ancestry. This pasta scrap, which began to “mold” in the undergrowth, was collected in less than an hour, the municipality said, who assured local police were investigating. Old Bridge, with a population of 65,000, is speculating on a restaurant’s inventory or a huge order that may not have been filled.