The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:
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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
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The BBC's spaghetti tree hoax, April Fools' Day, 1957. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree. This Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware what spaghetti is made of. | History Defined
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