Pasta drying, Italy, 1929
Pasta drying, Italy, 1929
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Ah, fresh from the tree! There's nothing else like it...
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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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That 12 year old has the face of a 50 year old.
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Baritone voice “You’re not much of a looker yourself, bub!”
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...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!
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I bet that's some bomb pasta. Ya gotta carry it through the hills of Italy to really get the flavor.
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So you're telling me my pasta can't be good because I live in the plains?!
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I feel like that's grounds for a vendetta.
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I'd be cheerful if I had all that pasta, too
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That looks like a 52 year old child
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That kid looks like his about to retire.
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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.