a
Ascot, United Kingdom
Today, my mother asked me how pasta is harvested. She actually thought it grew out of the ground. FML
Collection
Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Same thing different taste
WhatHaveIDone
Masterchef
Today, my daughter tried to make pasta by putting a pot on the stove, pouring the noodles in without adding water, and turning on the stove. Then she asked me, "How come these aren’t getting soft like when you make them?" She’s 19. FML
Anonymous
Canada
Now we're cooking
Today, I made homemade pasta from scratch. I spent hours kneading the dough, rolling it out, and cutting it into perfect strips. When I went to cook it, I realized that I forgot to add salt to the dough. The pasta tasted like damp cardboard. FML
Anonymous
Today, I offered to help my mother-in-law boil noodles for some noodle soup. She loudly said, "You know how!?" I'm a chef. FML
Anonymous
Sydney, Australia
Gullible's travels
Today, my 15 year-old sister asked which animal rice comes from. She believed every word when my mum told her it's harvested from tiny cows in Asia. FML
Cogibbt
Canada
Today, my mom found out that paper is made from trees. She read it on a garbage truck. I then had to explain to her how it's made. FML
damnthedog
Wollongong, Australia
Today, I found out that my home-made pasta sauce had a weird taste to it because my basil patch in the backyard has become my dog's preferred spot to pee. FML
Veggie dinner
Essen, Germany
Yummy
Today, I was boiling pasta and tasting it every now and then too see if it was done. As an afterthought, I threw in some lentil pasta as well. Only after tasting a few more times did I notice the maggots that were now slowly rising in the boiling water. I didn't expect that much protein in those lentils. FML
Anonymous
United Kingdom
Recycling at its finest
Today, I was having a vegetarian meal at my date's house. She was very proud because she grew all the veggies herself; she even made the fertiliser herself. I was halfway through the meal before I asked what she meant by "made her own fertiliser." It was human shit; her own human shit. FML
Anonymous
Pica?
Today, my mom ate some flowers without knowing if they were safe. Turns out they are slightly poisonous and she had an upset stomach, but she will be fine. Her excuse? "I didn't know it had poison." I had to explain that's exactly why you don't eat plants you don't know are poisonous or not. FML
Anonymous
Germany
Let it all hang out
Today, my mom was pulling up weeds on the terrace while wearing gardening gloves. Why is that worth mentioning? Because that's literally all she was wearing. FML
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Hoopachi 19
That's prePASTArus!
unknowncat 6
Well, the grain that pasta is made from goes in the ground.
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Comments (82)
Pranav175 14
Wait. pasta doesn't grow out of the ground? FML too.
miriamfrank 22
Points for creativity.
cmac86 24
I see the BBC has fooled another person with their prank.
gintwinsmoore 20
Please buy her a helmet!
matega 18
Me and my brother once playfully convinced our little brother that rice grows in long strands, and the reason you have to grow it underwater is so that the fish can bite it up into smaller pieces. (He was old enough to know this is silly, he just went through with it for fun)
AshWil 8
Show her "BBC: spaghetti harvest" on YouTube.
mattrd_fml 31
Well flour is made from wheat which is harvested. She was sort of a little right.
Mooglefox 24
There is a Video from Europe that was done for an April Fools Day joke in the late 40s about people harvesting noodles from trees
squarecircles 13
You mean it doesn't??? Oh well. So much for the idea of planting a macaroni tree.
Badkarma4u 17
Yo mama so dumb....