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
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.
Baritone voice “You’re not much of a looker yourself, bub!”
...it's pre-war italy: that fifty-year-old has the stature of a twelve-year-old...
This is not nearly enough pasta to dry Italy!
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.
I'd be cheerful if I had all that pasta, too
That looks like a 52 year old child
That kid looks like his about to retire.
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.
