• carbonari_sandwich@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Look how young the children were when they would send them deep into the pasta mines. Back then, they didn’t even use proper ventilation. They would frequently end up with gluten lung.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      Spaghetti isn’t mined in the pasta mines, you moron. It grows on spaghetti trees.

        • flicker
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          8 months ago

          I, too, wish to know where I can purchase a spaghetti bush.

          • Num10ck
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            8 months ago

            could you genetically engineer one?

            • baldingpudenda
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              8 months ago

              They already have! You think cheap pasta is through efficiency and child labor! It’s GMO and overfertilized crap.

              I remember grandpa chasing me with a switch because I left ripe pasta I couldn’t reach, but man was it tasty. Not like this new plastic-y crap. Why does it stick? It used to never stick before!

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        8 months ago

        I always wonder about drying food in a place full of airborne pollution, dust, etc.

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    8 months ago

    Ah, fresh from the tree! There’s nothing else like it…

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      8 months ago

      Clearly this is from the pasta mines. They needed child labour to extract from the tight spaces where the rich veins were under Italy.

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      8 months ago

      Baritone voice “You’re not much of a looker yourself, bub!”

  • NessD
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    8 months ago

    This is not nearly enough pasta to dry Italy!

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I bet that’s some bomb pasta. Ya gotta carry it through the hills of Italy to really get the flavor.

    • Damage@feddit.it
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      8 months ago

      So you’re telling me my pasta can’t be good because I live in the plains?!

      • PugJesusOPM
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        8 months ago

        I feel like that’s grounds for a vendetta.

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    8 months ago

    I’d be cheerful if I had all that pasta, too

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    8 months ago

    That kid looks like his about to retire.

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    8 months ago

    Why have children hold the sticks and not make stands to hang them on (the sticks not the children)

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      8 months ago

      Most likely they’re going door to door selling the pasta.

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        8 months ago

        In assuming they are drying the pasta after running them over automobiles to wash them.