Friday, November 29, 2024

The Pasta Dragon & the Rigatoni Pony

 Let's take a peek in the building where the Thanksgiving Parade floats are made. Here is my favorite. Rao's company made a dragon using different kinds of pasta.


His nose seems to be a ravioli. And maybe lasagna for the mouth. And look! His claws are elbow macaroni!


Here, the brave knight fights the dragon on his rigatoni pony. It is decorated with spaghetti.



Here they are together on the float.


The dragon appears to be riding on a rooster.


He is fierce looking. And appears to be spitting spaghetti sauce.


But he can also breathe fire!


Here are the drawings the artists came up with before they made him.



"The trouble with eating Italian food is that two or three days later, you're hungry again."

- George Miller

 

“Dragons symbolize the untamed majesty of the natural world.”


15 comments:

Great-Granny Grandma said...

Wow! How did you gain access to that?
They were so creative.

Mari said...

Thanks for sharing this! It's so cool and creative!

Debby said...

The creativity of people amaze me. Like why not, use pasta! 🍝

Rose said...

I would love to have some spaghetti right now, and that is terrible. I should not want another thing with as much as I have eaten today.

CheerfulMonk said...

That is so clever!!

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MadSnapper said...

Amazing! Incredible! Fabuosos! love it. Really gifted artists to create it and using pasta. wow... I want to do this when I grow up. ha ha ha ha ha

Ann said...

WOW, that's pretty impressive. So what happens to this when the parade is over. Do they save it or dismantle it? Is there some kind of museum that houses old parade floats? I just love that rigatoni pony.

Jeanette said...

Very creative if not a little weird!

Shug said...

thank you Ginny for the view inside...I was wondering the same thing as Great-Granny Grandma....how did you get in there to see this. Pretty neat!!!

aspiritofsimplicity said...

Oh my!! I don't even know what to say to that. It must have taken quite a bit of work.

Carla from The River said...

WOW... the creativity is amazing.
Carla

snobe casamang said...

Nice idea, I like it a lot.

DeniseinVA said...

I love these, and very inventive!

DeniseinVA said...

Loved your quotes and laughed at the George Miller one.

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