Spaghetti
Trees?
On April 1, 1957 the BBC broadcast a documentary about spaghetti trees. It described that year’s excellent crop for ‘spaghetti farmers’ in Switzerland. ‘It’s the mild winter,’ a professor explained.
The audience watched film of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees. As they placed it into baskets, a voice-over said: ‘There’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.’
Can I grow spaghetti?
The Swiss
Spaghetti spoof documentary created enormous interest.
Hundreds of people phoned the BBC. 'How can I grow
spaghetti ?' they asked.
An official BBC replied: “Place some cooked spaghetti
in a tin of tomato sauce. Leave the tin on your window the
1st of April”.
