Inside The BBC’s Legendary ‘Spaghetti Tree’ Hoax — And How It Fooled Hundreds Of People

ati ^ | 4/1/2022 | Katie Serena

[Leaning Right]

On April Fools’ Day 1957, BBC viewers watched a program about a "spaghetti tree" in Switzerland, and many were so convinced it was real that they wanted to grow their own.

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Adding believability to the hoax segment was the announcer, Richard Dimbleby. A veteran broadcaster, Dimbleby was the BBC’s first war correspondent and not at all known for silliness. In a perfect deadpan, Dimbleby noted that the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland would be particularly bountiful that year, thanks to the almost complete eradication of the spaghetti tree’s main predator, the “spaghetti weevil.”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I think Chef Boyardee sells them! :)

[SunkenCiv]

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[Grimmy]

this is hilarious.

[SunkenCiv]

Lucky for us that April 1 only rolls around once on the yearly collander.

[Grimmy]

I sieve what you did there.

[Red Badger]

Use Miracle Grow, silly!.......................

[Red Badger]

P.T.Barnum was right...................

[SunkenCiv]

I capellini no one had started up with puns before this.