Spaghetti Trees?
Spaghetti
Trees?On April 1, 1957 the BBC broadcast a documentary about spaghetti trees (see below). 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”.