When People Believed Spaghetti Grew on Trees - The Spaghetti Hoax That Made History
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When People Believed Spaghetti Grew on Trees - The Spaghetti Hoax That Made History
In **1957**, something incredible appeared on television — families in Switzerland were shown **harvesting spaghetti from trees**. The **BBC Panorama program** aired the short news segment on **April 1st**, reporting that a mild winter and the “disappearance of the spaghetti weevil” had led to a **bumper spaghetti crop** in southern ...
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Is this the best April Fools' ever? 🎣 The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland 🇨🇭harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". More: https://fcld.ly/toq57kk ©BBC | About Switzerland
Is this the best April Fools' ever? 🎣 The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland 🇨🇭harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". More: https://fcld.ly/toq57kk ©BBC | About Switzerland
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