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.
Spaghetti isn't mined in the pasta mines, you moron. It grows on spaghetti trees.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0074rd6
First documented on film in 1957
I, too, wish to know where I can purchase a spaghetti bush.
could you genetically engineer one?
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!
I always wonder about drying food in a place full of airborne pollution, dust, etc.
Extra regional flavour
That kid looks like his about to retire.
Ah, fresh from the tree! There's nothing else like it...
Clearly this is from the pasta mines. They needed child labour to extract from the tight spaces where the rich veins were under Italy.
That 12 year old has the face of a 50 year old.
...it's pre-war italy: that fifty-year-old has the stature of a twelve-year-old...
Baritone voice “You’re not much of a looker yourself, bub!”
This is not nearly enough pasta to dry Italy!
I'd be cheerful if I had all that pasta, too
That looks like a 52 year old child
I bet that's some bomb pasta. Ya gotta carry it through the hills of Italy to really get the flavor.
So you're telling me my pasta can't be good because I live in the plains?!
I feel like that's grounds for a vendetta.
Why have children hold the sticks and not make stands to hang them on (the sticks not the children)
Most likely they're going door to door selling the pasta.
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