In return, the BBC told every caller: “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.” Taco Bell’s ‘purchase’ of Liberty Bell Image credit: Ben Schumin/ CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons
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Courtesy the “many years of patient endeavour by plant breeders who have succeeded in producing the perfect spaghetti.”įrom the presentation to the voiceover, everything which was done by the legendary Richard Dimbleby, was perfect enough to make people believe that it was true.įollowing the broadcast, viewers called up the BBC office to inquire about how to grow spaghetti on trees.
The programme also went on to explain how each strand of spaghetti always grows to the same length. The footage also showed ‘harvesters’ pulling spaghetti strands from the trees and laying them for drying in the warm Alpine sun. In 1957, the BBC news programme, Panorama, aired a three-minute broadcast showing farmers in Switzerland plucking spaghetti from trees.įollowing a very precisely scripted plot, the programme ‘informed’ viewers that in “Ticino, on the borders of Switzerland and Italy, the slopes overlooking Lake Lugano have already burst into flower, at least a fortnight earlier than usual.”Īnd then it went on to add that the mild winter that preceded the spring season “resulted in an exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop” adding that part of it was because of the ‘virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil’ - a kind of insect. When BBC convinced viewers that spaghetti grows on trees What is common, however, is that these pranks can always be enjoyed as they were in good humour - something that needs to be noted.įrom BBC, which appears to be a repeat prankster, to an Australian millionaire from the late 1970s, here are some of the funniest pranks ever.
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