“Mystery of hundreds of kilograms of dumped pasta in New Jersey town”

New Jersey township police are trying to figure out how hundreds of kilograms of pasta were illegally dumped in a wooded area of ​​this New York suburb. The mystery dates back to last week.

According to local newspapers and the New York Times reporting on it in recent days, a walker posted photographs on Facebook of several piles of spaghetti, macaroni and shells in a small forest by a river in the town of Old Bridge.

The equivalent of “15 wheelbarrows” or “several hundred [kilogrammes] uncooked pasta taken out of their packaging and thrown on the edge of the stream,” a municipal official confirmed on Friday.

Italian community

Once the images circulating on social networks were authenticated, municipal employees and police were dispatched to the scene.

State bordering New York, on the other side of the Hudson River, New Jersey is renowned for hosting many communities of European origin, including Americans of Italian origin. Seventeen percent of its population claim Italian ancestry.

This pasta waste, which was beginning to “mould” in the undergrowth, was picked up in less than an hour, assured the municipality, which indicated that the local police were investigating.

The town of Old Bridge, populated by 65,000 inhabitants, speculates on the stock of a restaurant or a giant order which would not have been honored.

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