Florence, Italy - A trio of American exchange students stopped at a supermarket on their way home from classes in Florence, Italy to pick up some pasta for dinner that evening. The three young women were hungry, so they wasted no time in putting the pasta in a pot as soon as they got home and turned on the stove, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens. 

Little did they know that they were supposed to put water in the pot as well. Firefighters came to put out the blaze that ensued. One of the women explained: "We put the pasta on the fire without the water; we thought it was cooked like that." They learned a lesson the hard way. And, embarrassingly, a local newspaper reported the incident prompting a local restaurateur to offer cooking lessons.