It could just be a strange Italian to English linguistic pun ... or ... it could be related to the creation of Soap or Candles from human flesh (fat): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses ... full on 'Fight Club' scenario.
... if 'Pasta' is in fact being used as a code-word for 'young boy', then a candle (she says 'homemade') made as a souvenir from a young male victim could indeed be referred to as a 'Pasta Tower'.
She says: "Yum indeed...look how red it is! the pasta is practically melting."
Homemade candles made from fat are far softer than industrially produced regular candles apparently, thus they would seem in particularly warm weather to melt in a strange fashion.
... HOWEVER, acting as devils advocate ...
After searching on a Vegan foodie site, I found the following quotation regarding the construction of a Pasta 'Tower':
Serve with the Red Pepper sauce. For the dinner party I built the pasta up in a metal ring that I bought from a cookshop and then removed the ring so you get a pasta ‘tower’. I then put the sauce in a sauce drizzle bottle and drizzled over the top. You can also garnish with more chiffonade of basil.
http://vt-fiddle.com/blog/?p=440
It would seem that if you wanted to 'build something up' from the bottom - like a homemade candle - you could do it by use of a metal ring being pulled up slowly as you poured hot candle wax into it from the top ??? One could essentially produce a very large homemade candle this way with a relatively crude ring.
Perhaps, being an ethnic Italian from Naples, this woman Nilay may simply be applying a terminology common in pasta preparation to candle production ... that is, if I were to take the non-malevolent interpretation. As she seems to be part of a foodie crowd, like Alefantis, perhaps her friends seem to understand what she means by a pasta tower candle? ... though a Molech Candle as a souvenir of some god awful closed-circle ritual tradition, is, of course, not out of the question ... I guess.
I have to admit, this particular use of terminology is rather strange, though I ain't Italian.
Just as a followup on the fetish of candles made from human fat and/or human body parts - especially their use in providing some esoteric/magical effect - the case of the Thieves' Candle is especially creepy: http://www.strangehistory.net/2014/11/04/ripper-thieves-candles/ ... what the hell our ancient or more recent ancestors did with body parts is chilling. The case of the Egyptian Mummies and the consumption of their dried flesh by wealthy Europeans in the Middle Ages and 'Enlightenment' is another case in point:
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MolochHunter ago
'Scoot that pasta tower a coupla inches south'. Who calls a candle a pasta tower? Is this red candle made with the blood of 'pasta' in pedo code?
As for the others, the candy references seem like recreational drugs to me
PieInTheEye ago
It could just be a strange Italian to English linguistic pun ... or ... it could be related to the creation of Soap or Candles from human flesh (fat): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses ... full on 'Fight Club' scenario.
... if 'Pasta' is in fact being used as a code-word for 'young boy', then a candle (she says 'homemade') made as a souvenir from a young male victim could indeed be referred to as a 'Pasta Tower'.
She says: "Yum indeed...look how red it is! the pasta is practically melting."
Homemade candles made from fat are far softer than industrially produced regular candles apparently, thus they would seem in particularly warm weather to melt in a strange fashion.
... HOWEVER, acting as devils advocate ...
After searching on a Vegan foodie site, I found the following quotation regarding the construction of a Pasta 'Tower':
It would seem that if you wanted to 'build something up' from the bottom - like a homemade candle - you could do it by use of a metal ring being pulled up slowly as you poured hot candle wax into it from the top ??? One could essentially produce a very large homemade candle this way with a relatively crude ring.
Perhaps, being an ethnic Italian from Naples, this woman Nilay may simply be applying a terminology common in pasta preparation to candle production ... that is, if I were to take the non-malevolent interpretation. As she seems to be part of a foodie crowd, like Alefantis, perhaps her friends seem to understand what she means by a pasta tower candle? ... though a Molech Candle as a souvenir of some god awful closed-circle ritual tradition, is, of course, not out of the question ... I guess.
I have to admit, this particular use of terminology is rather strange, though I ain't Italian.
PieInTheEye ago
Just as a followup on the fetish of candles made from human fat and/or human body parts - especially their use in providing some esoteric/magical effect - the case of the Thieves' Candle is especially creepy: http://www.strangehistory.net/2014/11/04/ripper-thieves-candles/ ... what the hell our ancient or more recent ancestors did with body parts is chilling. The case of the Egyptian Mummies and the consumption of their dried flesh by wealthy Europeans in the Middle Ages and 'Enlightenment' is another case in point: