Spaghetti trees and other tricks

In 1957 on April 1, the BBC broadcast a three-minute report on their current affairs program. The television program featured a family in Southern Switzerland harvesting a bumper crop of spaghetti from their Spaghetti Trees. This black and white TV segment aired in Great Britain to an audience of about 8 million. The film showed a family plucking spaghetti from branches of a tree and then spreading the noodles out to dry. The ending showed…