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On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast. It was a full three-minute segment and was about a major spaghetti harvest, done in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was credited to both; a mild winter and also to the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil."
The audience too was baffled, when they heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's
most respected and trusted anchor. He was discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage, in which a Swiss family was pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets.
The segment was then concluded with the assurance that, "For those who love this dish, there's nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti." The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they too could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool's Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool's Day hoax.
Source: http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest
The audience too was baffled, when they heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's
most respected and trusted anchor. He was discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage, in which a Swiss family was pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets.
The segment was then concluded with the assurance that, "For those who love this dish, there's nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti." The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they too could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool's Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool's Day hoax.
Source: http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest
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