The Spaghetti Harvest Scam is a fake three-minute television report, broadcast on April 1, 1957 on the BBC's Panorama.
Back in 1957, the BBC published an April Fool's joke about how the Swiss harvest spaghetti from wood! The record yield was explained by the warm winter. The article talked about how the pest that "attacks spaghetti and is called spaghetti weevil" has finally been eradicated.
What followed was an explanation of how all spaghetti is the same length after many generations of careful cultivation of spaghetti trees and how it is a small family business in Switzerland as opposed to huge spaghetti plantations in Italy.
The story was devised by "Panorama" cameraman Charles de Jaeger, recalling how teachers at his school in Austria made fun of his schoolmates that they were so stupid that they would believe if someone told them that spaghetti grows on a tree.
At the time of the broadcast, Italian cuisine was a real rarity in Britain. Only those who had traveled or fought in Italy a few decades earlier knew more about her. Spaghetti was an unusual food for the British, which they knew mostly as a canned, exotic delicacy with tomato sauce.
This contributed to the fact that it was not difficult to convince the viewers that it was a plant, and not a pasta made from flour.
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