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.
94 0 ReplySpaghetti isn't mined in the pasta mines, you moron. It grows on spaghetti trees.
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First documented on film in 1957
13 0 ReplyI always wonder about drying food in a place full of airborne pollution, dust, etc.
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Ah, fresh from the tree! There's nothing else like it...
37 0 ReplyClearly 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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That 12 year old has the face of a 50 year old.
36 0 ReplyBaritone voice “You’re not much of a looker yourself, bub!”
10 0 Reply...it's pre-war italy: that fifty-year-old has the stature of a twelve-year-old...
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This is not nearly enough pasta to dry Italy!
22 0 ReplyI bet that's some bomb pasta. Ya gotta carry it through the hills of Italy to really get the flavor.
10 0 ReplySo you're telling me my pasta can't be good because I live in the plains?!
3 0 ReplyI feel like that's grounds for a vendetta.
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I'd be cheerful if I had all that pasta, too
9 0 ReplyThat looks like a 52 year old child
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That kid looks like his about to retire.
6 0 ReplyWhy have children hold the sticks and not make stands to hang them on (the sticks not the children)
4 0 ReplyMost likely they're going door to door selling the pasta.
7 0 ReplyYou make the children run really fast
2 0 ReplyIn assuming they are drying the pasta after running them over automobiles to wash them.
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