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By a - 12/05/2015 16:37 - United Kingdom - Ascot

Today, my mother asked me how pasta is harvested. She actually thought it grew out of the ground. FML

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By WhatHaveIDone - 24/03/2021 11:01

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

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By Anonymous - 05/05/2023 15:00 - Canada

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

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By Anonymous - 22/06/2019 18:02

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

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By Anonymous - 20/01/2015 00:45 - Australia - Sydney

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

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By Cogibbt - 03/08/2019 12:00 - 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

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By damnthedog - 19/01/2013 07:40 - Australia - Wollongong

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

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Recycling at its finest

By Anonymous - 09/10/2022 16:30 - United Kingdom

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

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By Anonymous - 21/06/2021 17:59

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

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By Anonymous - 23/08/2011 02:17 - United States

Today, I had a mild allergic reaction from eating pasta salad. I told my mom that I might be allergic to the parsley, since it was the only ingredient that I don't eat often. She made me eat a sprig of it to "make sure." Now my face is covered in hives. FML

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Let it all hang out

By Anonymous - 20/06/2021 14:01 - Germany

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015 0:33

That's prePASTArus!

unknowncat 6

Wednesday 13 May 2015 0:40

Well, the grain that pasta is made from goes in the ground.

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Pranav175 14

Wednesday 13 May 2015 8:29

Wait. pasta doesn't grow out of the ground? FML too.

miriamfrank 22

Wednesday 13 May 2015 8:53

Points for creativity.

cmac86 23

Wednesday 13 May 2015 9:19

I see the BBC has fooled another person with their prank.

gintwinsmoore 20

Wednesday 13 May 2015 12:34

Please buy her a helmet!

matega 18

Wednesday 13 May 2015 15:03

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015 17:07

Show her "BBC: spaghetti harvest" on YouTube.

mattrd_fml 31

Wednesday 13 May 2015 22:58

Well flour is made from wheat which is harvested. She was sort of a little right.

Mooglefox 23

Thursday 14 May 2015 7:05

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

Thursday 14 May 2015 21:54

You mean it doesn't??? Oh well. So much for the idea of planting a macaroni tree.

Badkarma4u 17

Friday 15 May 2015 2:15

Yo mama so dumb....

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