Bizarre mystery as hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta appear in woods leaving onlookers baffled

A SAUCY mystery has emerged after hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta were dumped in a park.

Oodles of noodles were found last week by a stream bed in Old Bridge, New Jersey, a town about 30 miles south of New York City.

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Former township council candidate Nina Jochnowitz shared pictures of the spaghetti, ziti, and macaroni in a Facebook post.

She estimated that more than 500 pounds of pasta was dumped in Veterans Park, but added that the township managed to clean it up quickly.

The odd situation quickly went viral online, where many commenters came up with clever pasta-themed puns.

“Sounds like the work of Rig-a-Tony!” one commenter said below a post on the r/NewJersey subreddit.

“He was actually framed… orzo I’m told,” said another.

“We should send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary,” another commenter said.

But others were thoroughly confused by the situation.

“Someone went through the trouble of boiling all this pasta and just…dumping it?” one commenter asked.

Jochnowitz told the New York Post the person who dumped the pasta hasn’t been found.

“It’s gonna be impastable to find who did it,” one Reddit user said.

“The police won’t stop until the perpetrator is aldente-fied,” said another.

Jochnowitz admitted that the pasta situation may be funny, but said it’s emblematic of a larger issue in Old Bridge.

“(It’s) no surprise when we see the dumping of construction and other garbage spewed in all of the neighborhoods,” Jochnowitz said in the Facebook post.

The dumping could have severe environmental consequences with real consequences for Old Bridge residents, she said.

“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” Jochnowitz told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply.”

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