The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:
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Is this the best April Fools' ever? 🎣 The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland 🇨🇭harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". More: https://fcld.ly/toq57kk ©BBC | About Switzerland
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Is this the best April Fools' ever? 🎣 The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland 🇨🇭harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". More: https://fcld.ly/toq57kk ©BBC | About Switzerland
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