Pasta did not originate, it was handed down by Ayers Rock Woman to the aboriginal people of what became a penal canoli (the original people called it Ayers Rock because they had a hard time transcribing from the english attempt to describe the lifeforce which surrounds the planet containing oxygen, with which they had even more trouble saying.)  it was this hot red climate which gave birth to red pesto, which made it easier to swallow primitive pasta, or in the original toungue pah ah ahh stah.

From australia pasta moved to Russia, which had already inve3nted basseball and pizza-ah, from where the arabs stole it.  by the time dissident russians took the alleged Marco Polo to their favorite underground restaurant on the Silk Road, strangely called Road Silk, pasta had even been mixed with spinach, leading to the rumor that Popeye had something to do with its development.

The evolution finally continued in Yurp, speedily, concurrent with the development of fazoul boat technology.  Etymologists deciphered this from the rock writing in lakeside caves, translated as 'nothing goes pasta fazoul."  (It is this mistake that Wiki takes to completion, because the original word is fazool, not the Arab fazoul.)

From there pasta moved to my kitchen, where it is currently attempting to soak up the Fougeres 2007, way too young for my sensitive palate.

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