Ah, bring back the days when television was still in its relative infancy, when images broadcast from around the world were taken for the truth, simply because it wasn't possible to Google something and disprove it. The Swiss Spgahetti Harvest is another April Fool's hoax perpetrated by the BBC. In 1957, BBC news programme Panorama broadcast a short documentary about growing spaghetti in Switzerland, helmed by respected presenter Richard Dimbleby. According to the brief, three-minute segment, the years' spaghetti harvest had been incredibly successful, owing largely to the disappeared of the spaghetti weevil. The broadcast featured footage of what appeared to be Swiss workers harvesting spaghetti from plants and placing the spaghetti in baskets. Like all of the best hoaxes, it caused a massive response from the general public, with many phoning the BBC in order to find out details on how they might acquire their own spaghetti tree. The BBC's response was equally as humorous, telling callers to place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce (and to hope for the best).
