The Week contest: Pasta feature
This week's question: Residents of a New Jersey town recently discovered a dumping ground of 500 pounds of rain-softened spaghetti, ziti, and elbow macaroni next to a creek. If this vast ridge of pasta were a geographical feature, what should it be called?
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: "Ridge-atoni"
Nicole Hayes, Baltimore, Maryland
SECOND PLACE: "The Spagheadowlands"
Jennifer King Maggio, Galloway, New Jersey
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THIRD PLACE: "Continoodle Shelf"
Buffie Stockton, Jackson, Wisconsin
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Carbpathians"
Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, New York City
"Cusp o' Noodles"
Carol Oberfoell, Monticello, Iowa
"Linguine Atoll"
Freda Giblin, West Bloomfield, Michigan
"Heartburn Ridge"
James Conrad, Montrose, Pennsylvania
"Marinara Trench"
Hunter Burgan, Los Angeles, California
"Jersey Ziti"
Chas Kikel, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
"PapparDelta"
Eleanor West, Asheville, North Carolina
"Moundacotti"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"Alp Dente"
Claire Williams, Louisville, Kentucky
"Macaroni And Trees"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"Great Mid-Atlantic Pasta Patch"
Lance Broy, Athens, Ohio
"Elbow Bump"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"The Isle of Manicotti"
Betsy Carlson, Sterling Heights, Michigan
"Vesuvio's Burp"
Paula Fornari, Lubbock, Texas
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