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Ticino Inside
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Fifi_ Leafy

5y↑1.5K

They literally took the time to place spaghetti in a bunch of trees.

That’s freakin amazing

Syd Griffin

3y↑19

@Lars Tragel Yeah, nowadays they'd just CGI it.

ourmando

3y↑20

@Syd Griffin very lazy indeed, spending hours on end to put time into something that others can enjoy.

Mihkel Erik Liis

3y↑1

Nina Tempo bruh

Corona Virus

2y↑13

@Syd Griffin I mean cgi takes just as much time

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Sunflowers159

8y↑1.4K

I'm old enough to remember watching this. As psammiad says, spaghetti was strange and exotic back in the '50s. Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain finally ended in 1954 and this programme was broadcast in 1957, so we were only just getting back on our feet again. Spaghetti, if anyone ever ate it at all, came in tins and was covered in metallic-tasting tomato sauce. Olive oil was sold in chemists and used to treat earache. No-one, except the small populations of Italians or Greeks in big cities like London or Liverpool, would ever dream of cooking with it! Another reason it was so successful as a spoof was that the BBC was a well-respected, but very stodgy and stuffy organisation and the Panorama programme was its heavyweight flagship news and current affairs outlet so for them to broadcast something like that was a real departure from their usual fare.

Thomas Buettner

8y↑91

+Sunflowers159 Thank you for sharing your experience, there's less people who can say the same the last few years.

I remember my Grandma telling us about seeing exotic fruits like bananas after rationing ended, things we take for granted today. On the flip side ration cards entailed exactly what a person needs to thrive, scientist took into account calories and nutrition when rationing began. The diet during that era was certainly healthier than the average diet today, if not plentiful.

Sunflowers159

8y↑50

Certainly not so much sugar and other "empty" calories - or unnecessary additives either. Food was boring and stodgy but, as you say, at least it was genuinely nutritious.

alanvcraig

6y↑20

Good memories! I can also remember when yogurt was exotic, and our first taste of curry - Vesta boil-in-the-bag. And we never had any dressing on salad.

Kaiser Soymilk

6y↑26

alanvcraig What's funny is that here in Italy we still haven't any dressings on our salads (it's just olive oil, salt, and optionally vinegar).

Mega Zeta

5y↑16

The olive oil for earaches thing is interesting because over-the-counter treatments for earwax buildup are usually some combination of oil and peroxide

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IAmAgainst

6y↑533

My neighbours have a spaghetti tree in their backyard and they always give us some when they're in season. The difference with store bought is incredible.

Kids Cavy Club

1y↑3

WHAT!?

trespire

40w↑3

Nothing is as good as fresh produce. It needs the right amount of sun and mild winter to grow to uniform length.

LordOfTheRed100

30w↑1

Spaghetti trees do not exist is April fools joke from BBC.

trespire

30w↑2

@LordOfTheRed100 Spaghetti trees are native to North Africa, from the more temprate forests of the Atlas Mountains, sadly all gone now.
The Etruscians and later the Romans brought them over to Italy, namely to Umbria. If you hike in the mountains you can still see a few in the old growths of Umbria.

233kosta

9y↑1.8K

I applaud the guy for not breaking into laughter every 5 seconds

Ben Skelly

8y↑5

He's a confederate.!. :P

ConspiracyJuice

8y↑43

+Barholomew Cubbins That's right, we're too polite to laugh. When we find something funny, we just nod firmly and utter "very good sir".

233kosta

8y↑12

***** So what does that have to do with one's ability to keep a straight face when pranking the public?

Wilder

7y↑9

Because after covering something as horrifying and atrocious as the holocaust, one loses the urge to laugh at the smallest things? I think he simply meant the prim and proper, typical BBC professionalism of the era though.

katty kattykay

4y↑10

I wouldn't even last five seconds

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River Spirit

10y↑3.1K

We watched this in class for history (learning about non reliable information), and some people actually believed that spaghetti grew on trees...

Steven1993

6y↑59

River Spirit yeah my dad was just saying he watched this when he was 7. How funny people actually believed it.. 🙂

Frigid Luna

6y↑73

We watched this in Science apparently and everyone one believed it but me and this other guy the other guy ran out of the room screaming something like his life was a lie.

Charlie Sutton

5y↑68

The idea of people on the television deceiving you was inconceivable. I bet there were people who knew spaghetti was wheat based and questioned their knowledge after seeing this

Teh Memez Lord

5y↑13

I’m pretty sure it is. YouTube can’t lie, right?

Samuel Ambrose

How old?

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David Learn

4y↑99

I remember reading about this years ago. From what I'm told,the BBC was stunned by the response this segment got. Not the people who were amused by the joke, nor by those vinegary folk who were scandalized that the BBC programmers had a sense of humor; no, the shocking part was the number of people who wanted information about attending the next year's harvest festivals

GionSnow

5y↑167

As a Swiss person i can confirm this is 100 % how we farm our spaghetti up til this day

S M

3y↑1

So fake. LMAO

S M

IDC

S M

WaitIneedAName? 🤔

ballsack sniffer

3y↑4

i hope you also have a lasagnia bush

GionSnow

3y↑11

@ballsack sniffer I wish... but Lasagna bushes only grow in the south west of Switzerland close to lakes..

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Vertigo Descent

4y↑42

Yes! I'm so happy to have found this! This exact segment is what caused my great grandmother to constantly say that spaghetti grew on trees, and she honestly believed it. It was fun to hear the stories Mum and Nanny had about Nanny Andy.

L M

7y↑1K

This story caused me to make a fool of myself in the 3rd grade back in 1962. I had seen this story on a re-run of a show called You Asked For It hosted by Jack Smith. But I missed the part about it being a hoax. Sometime later on down the road, my teacher asked the class if we knew how spaghetti was made. I confidently raised my hand and told her it grew on trees. She called my mother later that afternoon after school and told her, 'I think something is wrong with your son."

-Gemberkoekje-

5y↑13

LiveToastnBread

5y↑18

that happened

Dazzling Deb

5y↑3

L M 😂😂😂

Deja Vu

4y↑11

I blame the media

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catherine pansey

5y↑19

I saw this on TV as a child, on a rare afternoon, while alone watching tv. Never thought a thing about it, until, by bizarre happenstance, while having spaghetti for supper one night, with my 7 siblings , one of them asked, as a child would, "Where does spaghetti come from?". I proudly announced. " It grows on trees" Everyone at table laughed and laughed. I told them I saw the documentary on tv. describing it in detail, they did not believe me. I was ridiculed and frustrated. For years I wondered , AM I crazy? Surely I must be mad, as I grew up and knew of course, spaghetti does NOT grow on trees. I thought I must have imagined it, yet...... It seemed so real. I never forgot it, it haunted me for years and years. Then came the internet, I typed in spaghetti growing on trees, one day. AND THERE IT WAS! I showed all my now adult siblings. JUSTIFICATION. I was not MAD..... Best April fool's prank EVER!!!!

Abbey Williams

2y↑1

LOL, that's funny! 🤣

UCO SF

45w↑1

so funny 😆

E

9y↑656

"At the time (1957) spaghetti was relatively little-known in the UK, so that many Britons were unaware that spaghetti is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees."

beorlingo

5y↑58

And the reply they got was: Just stick a spaghetti into a bowl of tomato sauce and hope for the best.

John Robinson

5y↑5

Oof

Giovanni Acuto

4y↑40

@beorlingo In 1972 when I brought my Italian girlfriend (now ex-wife) to meet my parents, my father served tinned spaghetti on toast for tea.

beorlingo

4y↑2

@Giovanni Acuto lol

H Edwards

4y↑11

@Giovanni Acuto And she still married you??

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Abelhawk

4y↑33

I’m impressed with how convincing this is! Spoken with authority and specific details that make it sound real. April Fools!

chaskenny

8y↑167

This has got to be the best spoof ever. It was made better because Richard Dimbleby was the commentator. His was the voice of authority. Brilliant!

kaldo

5y↑3

I don't know, I quite like the Drug Spider documentary.

Hazel Anderson

3y↑2

That’s it, chaskenny. RD was a trusted reporter who was one of the first in to see the horrors of Belsen. He also covered the funerals of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

richard hockey

40w

modern remake with David Attenborough required - and better prepare the BBC switchboards and twitter feed for the inevitable 'Wow! how do I grow a spaghetti tree?' questions

KlunkerRider

9y↑1.1K

I always looked forward to the annual spaghetti harvest, it always coincided with the penguin migration.

Thomas G

9y↑91

Sadly not this year, as the unique alignment of the planets will be causing lower gravity near the south pole. This will mean a lighter and speedier journey for the penguins who will arrive some two weeks before the spaghetti harvesting really gets into gear.

George Beedle

9y↑48

Thomas G The effect will be so strong this year that the penguins will actually arrive 2 weeks before they depart.

Ben Spillane

9y↑30

How is it no one has commented on the removal of the Spaghetti Weevil from the food chain? Especially nowadays when we are aware of the consequences of animal extinction, we have to ensure the locals are equally aware do we not?

KlunkerRider

9y↑24

Chewie 1313 No way dude Spaghetti Weevils were EVIL and deserve death, there was nothing worse than sitting down to a nice dinner and finding the little bastards swimming in your marinara.

Thomas G

9y↑33

KlunkerRider Clearly you've never been educated on the delicate balance of nature revolving around the spaghetti plant. The weevil population may seem annoying, but if you bothered to do any research you'd know that in the long run spaghetti crops without weevils to keep them in check will choke all other plant life, create a monoculture and then die off themselves. The Po valley would be a barren wasteland otherwise, and if the use of pesticides isn't limited the weevil will go extinct and THIS WILL HAPPEN. Then we'll have to survive on macaroni, linguine and other substandard GM versions of spaghetti.

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Terrance Conti

8y↑227

My grandparents (who made their own spaghetti) used to think this clip was hilarious!

Badger Milk

6y↑23

Terrance Conti

*grow their own spaghetti

I am Satire

“Used to” what happened to your grandparents

Valentina Nuñez

3y↑8

@I am Satire what do you think, genius?

Eoin O'Connell

Did they have a large orchard ?

saccorhytus

47w

@I am Satire their spaghetti tree died

Jason Levi

9y↑7

I first saw this at a movie theater in 1957 and thought it was funniest and best done spoof ever. Glad I found it again to share with my grandchildren.

ScattySafari

7y↑741

Now THIS is how you do a prank. It's not hurtful or cruel or mean-spirited. It's imaginative. It plays on the authority we used to give the mainstream media. If you have to say ,'It's a prank bro!' you've failed. Still a classic of good-natured tomfoolery.

Plant

3y↑15

we do a little trolling

Nabil

3y↑9

@Plant we add nothing to the conversation

Plant

3y↑2

@Nabil ok

EdithBurchett

2y↑2

very well said!

Adventures With Aurora

I concur.

Tboneator64

8y↑10

Honestly, everyone involved was to be commended for keeping a straight face through it all! I wonder how many takes it took for the narrator to do his voiceover without doubling over in laughter?

CHEERS!

Paschan TOPs

2y↑9

I saw this back in 1988 at 8 years old and I totally believed spaghettis grew on trees. My sister told me that very day they were actually made from pasta dough which is a paste made from milled wheat flour... I still believed them growing in trees was more believable at the moment.

EdithBurchett

4y↑21

HOW is this possible to dislike this?
I think its one of my favorite videos since years and years and years.

Tamara Colloff-Bennett

10y↑5

Love it, particularly how the BBC took such care with all the details and the hired actors etc. A true classic!

Joseph Warren

34w↑3

I remember this too, but hailing from an Italian mother, who laughed herself into convulsions when she saw this, I knew better. I think about this every time I go out to our bread bush for fresh rolls.

James R. Madden

27w↑1

Here in Louisiana, our spaghetti was modified to grow like vines along the ground in straight lines. This resulted in the farms being long and narrow -- 1/8 mile wide by 5 miles long on average. If properly managed and correctly watered, the spaghetti is harvested with a machine resembling a hose reel that moves along the narrow end of the field and winds the spaghetti onto large spools for shipping to the regional processing mill. Once at the mill, the reels are mounted on the cutting machine that produces the uniform lengths of spaghetti to be dried and packaged. The non-uniform end pieces are distributed to the poor in celebration of the harvest. 😁

Robert Bernstein

3y↑7

One of my college friends saw this late at night on TV in the 1970s. He was half asleep and suddenly realized there was something odd about this news reel. Thank you for posting this! I have always wanted to see what he saw!

moonsugar1

4y↑12

Music had the Beatles, Comedy had the Spaghetti harvest. It was funny then, it's funny now, and no matter what happens, the image of Spaghetti hanging from a tree and someone sincerely telling you it grows there... will ALWAYS be funny. This belongs in a museum. It's as important to the arts as the Mona Lisa, who I'm also told, grew up in a tree.

alexis Juillard

33w↑2

Man they even went so far as to explain the (non) discrepancy in length, brilliant

Death2PC

5y↑12

I've had the pleasure not once, but twice in my life of being present during the harvest. Such a life memory...................

George Bahr

2y↑5

One of the greatest pranks in history, pulled it off on a 100 pound budget.
Fooled millions! You have to understand that spaghetti was still something very novel across Europe and not many actually knew where it came from.

Nate Norgaard

5y↑8

An estimated eight million people watched the program on 1 April, and hundreds phoned in the following day to question the authenticity of the story or ask for more information about spaghetti cultivation and how they could grow their own spaghetti trees; the BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best". -Wikipedia

Damian

4y↑1

Historia bez cenzury 👍😊

George Venturi

2y↑5

Both fishing wild macaronis and harvesting spaghetti in the jungles of Switzerland are in my bucket list

That Specific Individual

3y↑3

I kinda low key want to live in a world where spaghetti grows on trees.

MySwitzerland

10y↑545

Did you know that the best spaghetti is grown in Ticino? The BBC broadcast this classic clip about the spaghetti harvest on April 1 many years ago. We couldn’t get you to fall for it today, could we?

betty kuykendall

6y↑1

MySwitzerland
No, didn't Fall for it or
OR Spring either.!!! Only the money grown from trees would allow you to buy cooked spaghetti in a cafe or restaurant.!! LOL
Hello from Roswell, NM👽

EdWatts

5y↑4

People believe MSNBC and CNN, don't they?

Mea C

5y↑7

@EdWatts I was going to say "People believe in Fox News don't they?"

EdWatts

5y↑1

@Mea C: Read Mueller's report and get back to us.

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AKuTepion

2y↑2

Wow! I had no idea spaghetti grew on trees! I'm definitely going to visit Switzerland and check this out. Thank you very much for this useful information.

yoruko.

2y↑1

Omgg same

Bunsen Honeydew

2y↑4

If you don't have the space in your garden you can grow a macaroni bush they are much more compact.

Twila Tharp

8y↑4

The only spaghetti in England when I was a child was Heinz in a tin with tomato sauce. I never had 'real' spaghetti until many years later - and not in my parent's home as they would have felt spaghetti was a rather exotic dish, but in Canada where, with many Italian immigrants, it was and still is a fairly common dish in households that aren't necessarily Italian.

Moth's Mummy

Same here

Rach

7y↑13

We also here in America should be expecting our annual harvest of the pancake crop. Such a lovely time of the year to feast on home grown pancakes!

ballsack sniffer

i think you must live in the far north as we canadians have an abundance of pancake crops

Jason Dean

Pancakes are a type of soft bracket fungus that grows on a tree,of course. Often they are symbiotic with the maple trees that provide the syrup.

Linescrew1

8y↑1.9K

We're using similar technology in Canada, and our taco harvest this year should be a bumper crop.

Val Johnson

8y↑31

+Linescrew1 I tried one from last years crop- not so good but must have been the bad winter we had last year!

Joni Oden

8y↑50

+Val Johnson I tried a burrito crop last year but due to the low humidity and temps, I was left with a crop of taquitos

lcozzarelli

7y↑4

What?? That was a nonsequitur....filled with needless nastiness, as well as rather hypocritical, ignorant blanket-stereoptyping of over 300 million people. But whatever...enjoy your Taco-Beerfest!

Marina Heilman

7y↑5

@ Linescrew1: thanks to trudeau, probably a BUMPER bumper crop this year!

Daniel Schaller

7y↑2

ha-ha-ha waaaa!!!

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Jane Smith

5y↑14

What a great April Fools Day prank! It must have taken ages to hang all of those strings of Spaghetti on the trees!! Everyone was so serious! You almost want to believe it’s true!! 🤣🤣

psammiad

8y↑10

In 1957 very few British people knew anything about spaghetti, it was something strange and foreign they'd only vaguely heard of. Spaghetti wasn't regularly eaten in Britain until the 1970s.

Jill Crabbwalker

8y↑9

+psammiad ....I got fooled too, as most of my class mates......a German class mate before the BBC owned up informed us Brits that of course it was a joke.....the BBC was so prim and proper, one would never suspect such a dastardly act....and the commentator has the typical 'fruity' 'BBC' accent of that time.

P M

3y↑13

A puzzeling question I have always asked my student is, "What do rocks eat to make them grow into larger stones?" Sometimes the earth on the bottom of rocks causes confusion as students try to answer this question. Also they are always surprised there is so little information about the eating habits of rocks on Google.

Jay Walker

3y↑4

Similar to the question of whether light bulbs should be planted at the same time as daffodil bulbs.

Best KCL

2y↑1

How old are your students if I might ask?

P M

@Best KCL hi I have used this with both elementary and secondary students. These kinds of questions cause students to ‘think outside the box’. Do you teach? I did not try these with my university students … would like to…

Jason Dean

1y↑2

@P M Be careful what you feed your pet rocks,as they can develop gallpeople.

Jason Dean

1y↑2

@Jay Walker If you don't harvest lightbulbs at the right moment,they get leggy,and turn into fluorescent tubes.

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SilverFlight01

3y↑3

Points to the narrator for staying in character.

Carole Cook

5y↑4

Wonderfully elaborate well done April Fool's Day joke! First aired in 1957 by the BBC but an eternal classic!
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS
Be careful out there, don't play the fool.

Ian Shadow

7y↑4

60 years later and still hilarious.

flannel pillowcase

6y↑40

I just wanna know how the narrator got through that whole thing without laughing once. I need to learn his secret.

Dreamer372

6y↑6

flannel pillowcase It was the same man who had done a lot of reporting for WWII. When that much depressed reporting is done, one is usually able to recount anything with a straight voice.

Mark Tuson

5y↑4

@Dreamer372 Not only that but it was a thing with the BBC that you had to be able to pronounce all words perfectly and without emotion.

ekszentrik

8y↑5

I am Swiss, I went to England for a week recently, ate out every day. I saw pasta on the menues only about 3 times (out of 20+ restaurants). And it was penne, not even spaghetti. This was a real wtf moment when I realised it in hindsight. You can get spaghetti and all different kinds of pasta here everywhere, and we're not even Italians. Seems spaghetti is 60 years later still some exotic cuisine to Britons lol

HormigAtomic

Same in Spain lol

ekszentrik

2y↑2

@HormigAtomic How very very strange to see a reply to a 6 year old post I made. Naturally, I completely forgot.
More gravely, there was a very real chance I would have been dead by this time. Instead, I saw your reply just a few hours after you made it.
But each such 6 year reply is equivalent to a lowering of the inverse of that non-death permutation ...

HormigAtomic

@ekszentrik oh god I hadn't realized the comment was this old. I know the feeling of remembering a comment you've made after so long

First name Last Name

@ekszentrik you still alive?

Al Tudy

2y↑1

I went to Switzerland recently and ate out in lots of restaurants. Can you believe it! There wasn't fish and chips on any of the menus. The Swiss are sixty years behind.

Roger C

4y↑7

My wife was telling me tonight how our daughter was watching the Cookie Monster and he was teaching the kids how spaghetti is made. She is Thai and English not her first language and doesn’t know a lot about pasta, so I said honey don’t you know it grows on trees? After a little here and there I pulled up this video and showed her. She stood there agreeing and saying things like ohhh wow, okay I didn’t know that, oh it looks very good...and she was 100% convinced. Unfortunately I couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing.

Michael Lewis

2y↑1

This is one of the greatest april fools joke ever made. It sounds so believable if you don't know much about spaghetti, which a lot of people didn't at the time. Because we all now know it's fake because spaghetti is so common today, it becomes hilarious in a very good way.

Martin Cicchino

29w

That said, we were fortunate this past August to visit a large haggis farm outside Edinburgh just a week before the harvest later in the month. Our guide said that the weather this year was exceptionally good for a bumper crop. There was no mention of the haggis weevil during our tour of the farm and the damage it had done in prior years..

fullcapsETHAN

3y↑6

so this is why my grandmothet believed spaguetti was grown on trees for 15 years ... her italian husband also played into the joke so she really thought it was real 😭😭😭

Albukhshi

5y↑1

Yeah, the Kanafe harvest that year was really poor since the mild winter led to a loss of rainfall over the Levant; my grandad craved them excessively for the rest of his life, since the shortage was so severe it led to much suffering for all Near-Eastern Sweet teeth (such as his).

Great Kanafe famine of 1957--never forget!

Clouded Leopard

4y↑2

Best spoof ever. I knew older Americans that recalled their rage over being fooled by this into their 90's!

Mea C

5y↑3

Years ago, a co-worker of ours (who was born and raised in another country so English was her second language) we discovered she was taught that pickles grew on plants. She didn't know cucumbers were the plants and pickles were made from the cucumbers. Probably a mistranslation by the teacher.

Graham Greenall

9y↑53

I was nine years old when I saw this, I was allowed to stay up late to watch Panorama, It was many years later that I discover that it was an April Fool, I still blush when Ithink how many people I could have told the story to.

ABC DEF

6y↑12

I greatly prefer fresh spaghetti like this, picked earlier in the day, to the dry, machine cut stuff you buy in supermarkets. But it's getting harder and harder to find genuine, hand-picked spaghetti.

23ronin85

5y↑6

When you're green with envy about Italian food 🇮🇹🍝 then you decide to make the biggest April Fool ever. BBC, you rock, genius! 😉👍🏼😎🍝

Dkosto222 And more

I am considered one of the more wealthy families in the countryside. My grandparents made their claim and planted a forest of Cheeto trees and wild burger berry bushes on a 70 acre plot of land. Very happy to be a part of the Cheeto and burger berry harvest when I grow up.

ACE NY

I wish I could afford to go there and see this. Fortunately, I am heading to Georgia in a few weeks for the biscuit harvest. (Sure, we have biscuit bushes here in NY, but they produce biscuits that are too mealy. I think it's because of the shorter growing season.)

Sumin Shizzles

2y↑2

A friend of mine actually fell for this. I totally set his ass up. And this was only a few years ago. I could not stop laughing.

gerry o sullivan

6y↑2

Well I remember being a kid in the 80s and even then spaghetti Bolognese was a really exotic dish

Connie Wonnie

I first had spaghetti at 7 yrs old in the late 1970s. I was just saying to my husband I would love to time travel back to that time and see what they sold in the supermarkets, I just remember they were not as big as they are today, and items like asparagus, artichokes, anti-pasti, etc. were for the middle-classes.

D S Vanderbilt

9y↑24

This is as funny today as my first viewing in 1962 on The Jack Paar Show on NBC!
I recall the audience was hysterically laughing, but the show was receiving hundreds of phone calls from those whom never questioned the "crop". LOL!!

Vandy Starkweather

9y↑2

People who think food comes in a box in the supermarket. Ha!

D S Vanderbilt

9y↑3

Can you believe this? Still, some don't "get it!" As funny as when I first viewed the mock doc(umentary) 50+ years ago when I was 12!

tomr

6y↑2

This made quite an impression on me as a 10 year old watching the Paar show. Obviously, I wasn't alone.

Jenny Franklin

4y↑1

I saw this in a theater as a short subject sometime around then - was great watch audience around me gradually realizing it was a prank

Don Gorney

I also remember seeing it on the Jack Paar Show, and still believe it is one of the funniest spoofs ever made.

Seth Tyrssen

3y↑1

Ah yes, the spaghetti harvest! Always got a laugh out of this one.

John Jones

This never gets old. 🤣

amcalabrese1

7y↑3

My grandfather used to grow his own spaghetti. Too few people do that these days. The store bought kind just is not the same

Hanoch

6y↑1

And, next to our Meyer lemon tree, we have our Tsitsis bush which only produces the appropriate length strings once every two years. Legend tells us that hundreds of years ago there were insects who would tie knots in the strings as part of a mating ritual but died out after the mistaken introduction of a predator, the Knotsie bug. The Knotsies were a terrifying scourge but were mostly eliminated by DDT (Dwight David Tyzenhower).

whatever itis

4y↑2

I remember this as a kid in Australia. It was played on tv and we believed it ! They then said April Fool!
Innocent times.

TJB Show

6y↑4

Ticino spaghetti Best ever !! Grandma out picking fresh, always having a big O pOt cooking for us kids. Ah the good old days memories.

bionikball75

Saw this on KCET PBS as a child. Totally believed it for a number of years. I'd like to think that tree exists somewhere. Thanks for posting

thundrrd5

+bionikball75 this was on Sesame Street?

LostAndFound

2y↑1

I've lived in Ticino for 20 years and all this time I didn't realise that I could get home-grown spaghetti!! :) :)

Glenn parent

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Rusty Nickels

7y↑1

Did you know that up in the Yukon territory, and some parts of northern Alaska, lemon-flavored snow-cones grow in the wild? They are more prevalent during the winter months and animals seem to enjoy them as they are often found near wildlife tracks - usually moose. Try one next time you see one.

wa rren

6y↑2

Very informational video, I plan to buy and cultivate my own spaghetti trees. I am already a seasoned lasagna bush grower and look forward to my new plants arriving.

James Mica

Now 60 years old! A masterpiece.

Matei Alexoaea

3y↑3

Yea, spaghetti trees are great, but I prefer the cabbage roll flowers, they are easier to plant and sustain, and also have a great taste, especially the Romanian kind

supergran1000

9y↑1

The best ever. It's so funny how gullible and deliciously naïve we were back then. The only spaghetti we ate when I was a child came in tins with tomato sauce. When I got married over 40 years ago and cooked my Dad spaghetti Bolognese, he was extremely hesitant to taste "that foreign muck". Now spag bol is a British staple!

Francesco Motti

funny thing is that "spaghetti bolognese" are not typical in italy. In bologna they can laugh at you, if you ask

Marina Heilman

7y↑1

How can anyone dislike this? Geez, not only at Christmas, now we have April 1 Scrooges walking amongst us.
Those upstart Swiss!

Guy Merritt

8y↑56

Years ago I lived in Lansing, Michigan and there was a restaurant called the "Spaghetti Tree". The name was kinda weird, but I presumed it had no connection to anything, uhm, "real". Now, I assume they got it from this hoax broadcast.......lol.

Astrofrank

35w

Could be interesting if, after watching this in Germany together with some people from the USA, ask them if they would like to eat some German Spaghettieis, that is spaghetti ice cream. Maybe they will laugh at first, but after taken to an ice cream parlor and you ordering a Spaghettieis, they might be confused. And they might be totally astonished when the waiter comes with something which looks like spaghetti topped with tomato sauce and parmesan.

Chris Wilson

My grandmother, who is Italian and immigrated to the UK in the 1940s, did not realise this was a joke and was outraged, so my mum tells me!

Tim Burleson

3y↑3

I saw this in school and for a second we were all going. " Wow, I didn't know that!' Then the teacher laughed and we all realized we had been had.

jhibbitt1

this hoax is older than even my parents, but I still knew about it from very young age. it was the most famous ever BBC prank because spaghetti being apparently rarer in Britain back then, meant that so many people actually did fall for this. it kind of reminds me of America's war of the worlds radio play prank. even more hilarious is the dry delivery in typical British style complete with a stereotypical accent haha

Micah's tv

46w↑1

I remember that my dad saw this one day he actually planted spaghetti and took care of it for 2 months before realizing it was "dead" he then found out it was a joke

PseudoEmpathy

3y↑3

I would totally eat this.
(if it were real obviously)

Gunslinger

I feel bad for the children who wanted to grow up and be a spaghetti harvester.

Shiwo Science

5y↑63

The 211 people who disliked actually fell for it 😂

Steve McLaughin

6y↑24

There are people to this day who still remember and believed this "mockumentary"....remember in 1957 the ONLY pictures you could find of another country were at the library or in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

alex carter

Hilarious. Although a lot of people are probably not sure how pistachio nuts actually grow, or what they're not really naturally bright red. They grow on trees, and they're delicious right off the tree.

Pete Mack

37w

Red? Pistachios are naturally bright green! Or maybe it's a different variety in the US.😅

cinemabon

I loved this spoof! They showed it on the Jack Paar show. People believed it! Hilarious!

Chicken Scratch

2y↑1

There was one guy at the time who called it "fake" because he knew that spaghetti grew horizontally, not vertically 🤣

Dicky Arya

Honestly by how they delivered it it does looks legit and real, the actor the narrator and everything seems your ordinary documentary of then

paula skeete

The person doing the voice over was a respected serious journalist, the BBC's war correspondent. For that reason, people took this seriously.

Richard MH

3y↑1

Hundreds phoned the BBC the following day for more information about spaghetti cultivation, and how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. The BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

piou77piou

5y↑99

I wish I saw the making of this.

"Hello. I would like to buy spaghetti."
"Sure. How many grams ?"
"5 kilos. I need to put them on a tree."
"....... dafuq"
"I'm a journalist."
"....... English people"

Janne Wolterbeek

4y↑1

LOL

Fyre Music

LangitBiru

4y↑2

hahaha

Kevin CinnamonToast

3y↑1

I had no idea,wow. Would one day love to see the plantations.

Laura Griffin

7y↑1

I could make so many comments about the state of society today, just from watching this video, but I won't. I'll just enjoy it for what it is. A very clever and funny April Fool's story. :)

Papaya

3y↑1

my mom told me about this when we learned about credible sources in online. I told her about a website about corn (kinda like this) and it was funny.

Abby Wetmore

5y↑4

Thanks for sharing! Yesterday I was at the nursery and bought 3 baby spaghetti trees, any advice for a successful harvest

Lauren Rowell

2y↑2

Fertilise with plenty of dried basil and olive oil, then place some sliced tomatoes at the base of the plants on the nights of a full moon. As the trees grow, encourage them on sunny Sunday afternoons with renditions of La bohème.

Moth's Mummy

Did you remember to buy male and female, (like Holly trees)? If not, you won’t get any flowers.

Christopher Sobieniak

10y

So much more interesting than the annual Danish cheese rolling festival!

Courtney Alice

4y↑7

“There’s nothing like real home grown spaghetti”

Raven

6y↑2

Spaghetti trees are nice and I even have my own. They look wonderful in the spring! I also have a beautiful pizza bush with only the most fresh pizza. However my burger vine is dying.

Ragnar D

5y↑2

One of the all time great spoofs. (BBC April Fools, I think.)

L S

i watched this for geography and a couple students thought it was real i was laughing like am i the only one who knows how stuff is made!!! lol

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