The best April Fool's joke

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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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I love spaghetti actually its my favvvv

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3 years ago

Now that eould have been a very amusing prank if they aired it now though. Specially when a lot of people became more ignorant of where things came from

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3 years ago

Hahaha this joke is really funny.Every year I hardly wait to come 1st April so I can make jokes and noone is angry on me.

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3 years ago

hahaha ... I just laughed ... spaghetti growing on a tree ..... and then believed it

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3 years ago

Your article is extra. I smiled sweetly. Thank you for that.

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3 years ago

I hear about this plant for the first time, but really. This is amazing.

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3 years ago

At one point I thought when I looked that these were really spaghetti, I had never read about this

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3 years ago

April Fool's jokes are allowed, of course, if you don't overdo it. There is no end to human ingenuity and a sense of humor. This post is a real example of what I have already said about jokes. I enjoyed reading this post.

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3 years ago

Zdravo ja sam dalibor sada sam napravio ovu aplikaciju, slucajno sam te naso i sub sam. Da li mozes da mi objasnis kako ovo funkcionise dodaj me na fb Profil Bela Lasica slika isto lasica(zivotinja na slici)

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3 years ago

Very good April Fool's Day hall for spaghetti to grow on a tree, as one might believe.

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3 years ago

the BBC’s phones didn’t stop ringing for hours after this question post.

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