I eat pasta yesterday. vs I ate pasta yesterday.

Some examples from the web:

• I eat Pasta, Casta, Paris, Nose Root...
• I could eat pasta every day.
• I n't know. l just... always hoped to someday eat pasta in space.
• I came to eat pasta as a customer.
• And the fact that you told Auntie Linda you could eat pasta on the Atkins diet.
• I taught him to love Italy... to eat pasta.
• And we can walk to prom and then use what's left to get the $8.99 all-you-can-eat pasta special at Breadstix.
• Did you eat pasta with beans?
• Look, we'll check in, sleep late, eat pasta, gaze out at the Piazza del... something-something.
• They eat rice and they eat pasta both of which - and certainly rice - the developing world is very short of.
• You decided to help yourself to a whole new wardrobe and a day of all-you-can-eat pasta?
• And I eat my dinosaur that force fields.
• I eat a lot of yogurt.
• The arrest warrant was officially issued yesterday.
• Apparently ollie barnes was released on bail yesterday.
• Matt Carlson sold his granary yesterday.
• Two prisoners escaped your custody yesterday.
• His private nurse found him yesterday.
• See, we all passed yesterday.
• Parents last spoke to her yesterday.

Some examples from the web:

• -Except - I ate my shoe yesterday.
• I ate a whole cake yesterday.
• Because I ate most of the tacos yesterday.
• Bra'tac, I do not remember what I ate yesterday.
• I ate like, three cans of Pringles yesterday.
• I ate the last speck day before yesterday.
• Today we ate pasta and beans...
• [They ate pasta e ceci, and a marvelous roast chicken,]
• Today we ate pasta and beans... with the boiled chard seasoned with olive oil and lemon!
• I ate-I ate-I ate a piece on the way over.
• I ate a bunch of ice cream earlier today.
• Caught everything I ate except chocolate.
• Feels like I ate a horse.
• And that evening, I ate an old-school Salisbury steak TV dinner, but I ate the brownie first.
• I ate some bugs I ate some grass
• There were two cakes. I ate one and then I ate the other.
• I wouldn't say I ate your food, so much as I ate your texture.
• I ate one, maybe two.
• But I was hungry, so I ate something.
• I think I ate some bad sushi.