On April 1, 1957, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby produced a two-minute segment on “spaghetti harvesting” in Switzerland. Viewers watched spaghetti farmers pull pasta from trees as Dimbleby intoned, “There’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.“ The footage, of course, was fake. But its impact was very real: Hundreds of viewers called the BBC, wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. The network’s response: “Take a sprig of pasta, place it in tomato sauce, and wait.”
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This is so old. This is the kind of shit bored housewives send each other.
04.01.09 at 12:23 pm
fuck you.
04.01.09 at 12:50 pm
waaaaah I complain about a free website, waaah!!
04.01.09 at 2:00 pm
Spaghetti is not a widely-eaten food in the UK and is considered by many as an exotic delicacy.
04.01.09 at 2:01 pm
Hahhaa! It goes to show that people are so gullible, and they trust major networks so much that they don’t even question their integrity.
04.01.09 at 2:18 pm
I think a British voice over or the dude from Frontline makes everything believable. For instance I became sure the moon landing was faked after I heard Dudley Moore explain the inconsistencies of the shadows.
04.01.09 at 3:10 pm
^ you fucking people….aaaaahahahaha
04.01.09 at 3:18 pm
this is the oldest exhibition of trolling I’ve ever seen!
04.01.09 at 9:35 pm
swiss… lol everbody knows the spaghetti harvest takes place in china
04.01.09 at 9:48 pm
ronzoniis arborealis…stupid
04.03.09 at 8:32 am