BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism

[@fifi_leafy2258]

They literally took the time to place spaghetti in a bunch of trees. That’s freakin amazing

[@sydgriffin7591]

@@LarsTragel-zh7ei Yeah, nowadays they'd just CGI it.

[@ourmando]

@@sydgriffin7591 very lazy indeed, spending hours on end to put time into something that others can enjoy.

[@mihkelerikliis8269]

@Nina Tempo bruh

[@coronavirus553]

@@sydgriffin7591 I mean cgi takes just as much time

[@rileysschumanns4742]

your just a non believer

[@Sunflowers159]

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.

[@thomasbuettner6878]

+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]

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]

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.

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

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).

[@MegaZeta]

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

[@UntakenNick]

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.

[@kidscavyclub80]

WHAT!?

[@trespire]

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

[@lordofthered1003]

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

[@trespire]

@@lordofthered1003 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.

[@ggarlick46]

I bought one to plant in my garden from Aldi last week.@@trespire

[@catherinepansey688]

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!!!!

[@abbeywilliams925]

LOL, that's funny! 🤣

[@ucosf6022]

so funny 😆

[@paultikotin]

Funny story...But the teacher!!!

[@douglasschaden3475]

Spaghetti doesn't grow on trees, but it certainly seems that comma's do.

[@edzhead22]

welcome to the modern world?

[@233kosta]

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

[@benskelly1217]

He's a confederate.!. :P

[@dannyclub09]

+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]

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

[@ShadeOnTheUtube]

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.

[@kattykattykay5898]

I wouldn't even last five seconds

[@marauder08901]

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

[@RiverSpirit]

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

[@5bananas1]

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

[@frigidluna9442]

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.

[@bibtebo]

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

[@tehmemezlord2379]

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

[@yeahwitda]

How old?

[@Linescrew1Canada]

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

[@valjohns9244]

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

[@jonioden6323]

+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]

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!

[@perkylittleblondeFF]

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

[@danielschaller9052]

ha-ha-ha waaaa!!!

[@snakebitmgee]

I'd rather have a Ravioli bush.

[@zachyt4643]

snakebitmgee personally, I'd like to know how to plant tagliatelle beanstalks.

[@Keza_]

you are going places sir

[@aranseanziegler1421]

It's much easier to harvest

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

Ha ha! I totally disagree! Gnocchi Vineyards are so much more fruitful and easier to harvest!

[@noodleboyn6367]

The macaroni and penne bushes are easier to pick.

[@GionSnow]

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

[@SM-vo8zt]

So fake. LMAO

[@SM-vo8zt]

IDC

[@SM-vo8zt]

@WaitIneedAName? 🤔

[@ballsacksniffer420]

i hope you also have a lasagnia bush

[@GionSnow]

@@ballsacksniffer420 I wish... but Lasagna bushes only grow in the south west of Switzerland close to lakes..

[@loumitch1]

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-5547]

XD

[@weapoolx182]

@L M LOL I'm sorry for your mother she got reprimanded by your teacher due to your wrong explanation based on a hoax video made by BBC. 🤣🤣😉👍🏼

[@Kingofmentalissues]

that happened

[@dazzlingdeb8427]

L M 😂😂😂

[@dejavu4040]

I blame the media

[@MySwitzerland]

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?

[@jan3211200]

MySwitzerland stop telling people its a April fool's joke we need to weed out the idiots

[@bettykuykendall2083]

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]

People believe MSNBC and CNN, don't they?

[@meacadwell]

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

[@EdWatts]

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

[@KlunkerRider]

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

[@ThomasG_]

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.

[@GeeorgeBeeedle]

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

[@TisChewie]

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]

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.

[@ThomasG_]

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.

[@scattysafari7742]

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.

[@plant5875]

we do a little trolling

[@nabil5134]

@@plant5875 we add nothing to the conversation

[@plant5875]

@@nabil5134 ok

[@EdithBurchett]

very well said!

[@adventureswithaurora]

I concur.

[@chaskenny]

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_kaldo]

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

[@hazelanderson1479]

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.

[@richardhockey8442]

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

[@bundeligafan]

"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]

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

[@johnrobinson4349]

Oof

[@giovanniacuto2688]

@@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]

@@giovanniacuto2688 lol

[@hedwards5636]

@@giovanniacuto2688 And she still married you??

[@EdithBurchett]

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

[@zackjoseph9127]

my Doritos cactus had quite a yeild this season.

[@alphoricproductions3786]

Im having problems with my coke bush. Any advice?

[@crazy_pyromaniac]

@@alphoricproductions3786 It’s better as crack

[@vertigodescent9490]

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.

[@josephwarren3498]

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.

[@petergrieder9393]

Do you have the dinner roll plant or a bread tree? My dinner roll plant got bread aphids

[@seandavidson1188]

Another branch of this family cultivates parmesan bushes in a small neighboring villa close to Ticino

[@viktorbalogh8467]

can't wait to taste this year's harvest with some manufactured tomatoes!

[@kaldo_kaldo]

One should note that parmesan from a Swiss parmesan bush pairs perfectly with the ravioli harvested from Sicilian ravioli vines, more so than parmesan from the oft popular Russian parmesan bush and even above the fungal parmesan from Parma, Italy.

[@steveterry2350]

And don't forget the meatball tree where the meatballs grow in pairs in a little sac just under the bush. You just have to remember to squeeze the sap out before cooking otherwise it tastes a bit too salty.

[@saras.9673]

Ticino's tomato cows are well known even in Naples! 👍🏻

[@grahamgreenall6982]

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.

[@whatsamattayoo]

You don't want to know how Tootsie Rolls are harvested.

[@andrewunjo158]

Good one!!

[@bettykuykendall2083]

Whatsa Mattayoo Well, my daughter planted a Pussy Willow in her yard last week. The trees are started in the small town of Pussy Willow, California. I was a small child when the family visited there to see my dad's parents. On the road into the county there eas a large Pussy Willow tree surrounded by a large fence with no gate. This was to keep people from picking the flower buds. True about the tree and the California town/village. Google it. !!! LOL LOL LOL

[@richardweil8813]

Or honey.

[@iamsatire2883]

It’s a very uncomfortable and painful process

[@chrissi975]

We in Germany, are already awaiting the explosion of the Beer Geysir. It is going to be delightful.

[@hazelanderson1479]

Will it be called Geyser Wilhelm?

[@ballsacksniffer420]

i heard you also got sausage vines too

[@reginaseelaIam]

making u hops deary

[@Abelhawk]

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

[@notroll1279]

The speaker was Richard Dimbleby, previously war correspondent, later the voice reporting from QE2's coronation and a household Name and icon of journalism. So his very well known voice gave this report high credibility - and I guess he really enjoyed being part in this project.

[@terranceconti]

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

[@PremiumBadgerMilk]

Terrance Conti *grow their own spaghetti

[@iamsatire2883]

“Used to” what happened to your grandparents

[@valentinanunez3708]

@@iamsatire2883 what do you think, genius?

[@eoinoconnell185]

Did they have a large orchard ?

[@saccorhytus]

@@iamsatire2883 their spaghetti tree died

[@me-dee-vee3390]

A fettuccine sapling grew on our garden yesterday. I don't know how it got there but one thing is for sure and that I am lucky to get it. Any tips on taking care of it?

[@zachyt4643]

Me-Dee-Vee water it with oil and sprinkle some salt on it, tastes better that way

[@me-dee-vee3390]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Tboneator64]

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!

[@mcjitsu]

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.

[@science617]

The 211 people who disliked actually fell for it 😂

[@guymerritt4860]

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.

[@moonsugar1]

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.

[@sbspock]

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!

[@jasonlevi8059]

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.

[@ItzWanno]

how old

[@ABC_DEF]

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.

[@alexisjuillard4816]

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

[@GeorgeVenturi]

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

[@janesmith8168]

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!! 🤣🤣

[@griffdaz1982]

my egg plants lay beautiful double yolk eggs

[@calum5975]

+griff daz Or an Aubergine as the BBC would say

[@minnowviewbait]

@griff - LoLs you'd be surprised how HOT those greenhouses get to grow our Lazagna + Xtra Large pizza plants :-/

[@diannapia]

griff daz 😂😂 🍳

[@GionSnow]

My implant lay beautiful little imps

[@sandraharrisramini3652]

My beefsteak tomatoes cooked medium rare are perfect with egg plants and of course home grown spaghetti. :-)

[@andrewunjo158]

And then the Ticini initiated the spaghetti embargo of 1967 which nearly ruined everything!

[@death2pc]

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

[@flxws1768]

So my teacher pranked us by showing us this for April fools

[@flannelpillowcase6475]

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

[@dreamer3725]

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.

[@MarkTuson]

@@dreamer3725 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.

[@annalevi1044]

Because he was one of the greatest BBC announcer.

[@RachelTheRheapr]

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!

[@ballsacksniffer420]

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

[@mrreg]

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.

[@dsvanderbilt]

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!!

[@VandyStarkweather]

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

[@dsvanderbilt]

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!

[@bpivr]

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

[@jennyfranklin7653]

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

[@dongorney2533]

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

[@pizzatime7433]

Finally something worth recommended on KZbin

[@elylew]

The Swiss process was truly artisinal. Yet another casualty of globalization.

[@psammiad]

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.

[@jillcrabbwalker1530]

+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.

[@rozeboosje]

This is a thing of beauty.

[@PaschanTOPs]

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.

[@weapoolx182]

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

[@NateNorgaard]

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

[@jayjanblack7895]

wikistupid

[@marcellusxl8482]

*SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET!!*

[@1starvision]

Overused meme

[@mr.j8511]

Thanks for letting me know where to look for spaghetti trees!

[@jrmaddog]

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. 😁

[@JudasPriest9878]

I planted my spaghetti tree, and it has yet to grow :c

[@Ospyro3em]

Did you remember to fertilise it with plenty of parmesan cheese? ;)

[@zhengquan6277]

Sophia oX r/woooooooooooooooosh

[@Chrispins]

You probably planted a seedless spaghetti.. nowadays all spaghetti is GMO and made to not produce seeds. You will need to graft a limb from another spaghetti tree onto a similar tree such as a linguine tree

[@weapoolx182]

@Sophia Xo r/whoooosh

[@tiefblau94]

You have to prune the old and curly spaghetti so new healthy shootings develop :) Let me know how it goes!

[@chimneygeorge]

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.

[@OceanPlanet60]

I always like these well-researched BBC documentaries.

[@AntsTalk]

They're already cooked. 😂 I need to check my cheese tree now. Gouda is already falling of the tree while chester needs a few more weeks of growing time

[@joachimbergenstrahle2040]

This B/w footage reminds me of a april hoax back in the days when you were advised to put a nylon stocking over your b/w TV-set to get coloour-TV the cheap way.

[@Daffob1nt]

Yes, fun was had at the expense of many of my countrymen! :D :D

[@ekszentrik]

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

[@hormigatomic1]

Same in Spain lol

[@ekszentrik]

@@hormigatomic1 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 ...

[@hormigatomic1]

@@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

[@FirstnameLastName-mr8lk]

@@ekszentrik you still alive?

[@altudy]

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.

[@courtneyalice5889]

“There’s nothing like real home grown spaghetti”

[@twilatharp4728]

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.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Same here

[@presto1128]

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

[@Kaizen_]

My criminology teacher sent this to my class to show the students that you shouldn't trust anything people show you without having prior knowledge of a matter beforehand. Completely unrelated but thanks for the laf.

[@casadilla111]

The spaghetti weevil... Genius.

[@amcalabrese1]

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

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

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

[@fullcapsethan]

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 😭😭😭

[@meacadwell]

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.

[@yousifa5089]

Is it possible to like a video more than once

[@RustyNickels]

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.

[@punchmeifucan]

Palms are sweaty Knees weak, arms are heavy Vomit on my sweater already Mom’s spaghetti

[@sottoblue6510]

I would have to move out of my mom's house if I ever said that. I'm 55, where am I gonna go?

[@warren8907]

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.

[@pokecat6122]

My brother used to think marshmellos were grown from trees

[@reginaseelaIam]

Are they not?

[@frox54]

script corrected: 0:00It isn't only in Britain that 0:09spring this year has taken everyone by surprise 0:13here, in Ticino, on the borders between Switzerland and Italy, 0:17the slopes overlooking lake Lugano have already burst into flower 0:21at least a fortnight earlier than usual 0:25but what - you may ask - has the early and welcome arrival of bees and blossom to do 0:30with food 0:31but it's simply that the past winter - one of the mildest in living memory - has had 0:36its effect in other ways as well 0:38most important of all, it's resulted in an exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop 0:43the last two weeks of March 0:45are an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer 0:48there's always the chance of a late frost, which - while not entirely ruining the crop - 0:52generally impairs the flavour 0:55and makes it difficult for him to obtain top prices in world markets 0:59but now these dangers are over 1:01and the spaghetti harvest goes forward 1:04spaghetti cultivation here in Switzerland is not of course 1:07carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian industry 1:11many of you I'm sure will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti 1:15plantations in the Po valley 1:17for the Swiss, however, it tends to be more of a family affair 1:21another reason why this may be a bumpy year lies in the virtual disappearance 1:25of the spaghetti weevil - 1:27the tiny creature whose deprivation has caused much concern in the past 1:34after picking the spaghetti is laid out to dry in the warm Aloine sun 1:40many people are often puzzled by the fact that spaghetti is produced at such 1:44uniform lenghts 1:45but this is the result of many years of patient endeavor by plant breeders 1:50who succeeded in producing the perfect spaghetti 1:55and now, the harvest is marked by a traditional meal 1:59toasts to the new crop are drunk in these boccalinos and then the waiters 2:03enter bearing the ceremonial dish - and it is of course spaghetti picked earlier 2:08in the day dried in the sun and so brought fresh from garden to table 2:13at the very peak of condition 2:15for those who love this dish 2:17there's nothing like real homegrown spaghetti 2:26odd

[@timburleson1078]

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.

[@martincicchino1228]

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..

[@mateialexoaea2522]

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

[@raderdasuperdog4522]

Who watched this on April fools?

[@rogerc23]

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.

[@Gos1234567]

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

[@abbywetmore8141]

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

[@laurenrowell9251]

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.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

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

[@AKuTepion]

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.

[@rageandloveonfireeeeeee]

Omgg same

[@119beaker]

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

[@mikelast7918]

yes.....such is the history of the spaghetti and we haven't even got to reveal the history of the bolognaise yet....

[@ravenmalveaux464]

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.

[@carolecook1116]

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.

[@neilg2640]

My spaghetti tree only produces ever other year. It's a hybrid and has produced much spaghetti for over 60 years.

[@stereoroid]

It's that time of year again. I wonder whether any Mexican channels are covering this year's Churro harvest?

[@jakechaves5495]

I watched this because of my English class. Thank you Mrs. James

[@silverflight01]

Points to the narrator for staying in character.

[@ImonH2]

This is so fresh still. Anyone from 2021?

[@timmyteehee9490]

sweet christ i thought it was a monty python sketch or something. That was gold.

[@williamstolley2165]

I saw this broadcast on the American television Jack Paar Show, where Paar didn't crack a smile. NBC later issued a disclaimer because so many called to inquire where they could buy fresh spaghetti.

[@a.c.1515]

I will bet money that Papyrus believes this.

[@lightnightsky]

Undertale follows me everywhere I go...

[@lightnightsky]

On the other hand, someone needs to make a short of him reacting to this! XD

[@a.c.1515]

I must. Draw. A comic about this.

[@LionSnob]

I bet he's dead now.

[@Felice_Enellen]

From the description: ｜ _Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled."_ There is _so_ much about this sentence that makes me sigh in desperation about the state of modern journalism.

[@ooops4064]

It had me until I seen the spaghetti hanging from the tree

[@AmericanGo0se]

It gets absolutly nuts this time of year in the Po valley with me and my family, sadly this year has been a yeild year

[@aroundandround]

How quaint and so very similar to samosa harvesting in India.

[@KaNeKo-i4l]

スパゲッティはそうやって作られていたのですね。初めて知りました。