"Spaghetti Harvest" Fake British News Story (1957)
So it turns out that people had a sense of humor 50 years ago. Here's a classic news reel shown at this year's TED Global conference.
On April 1, 1957 the British television programme Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland... The segment concluded with the assurance that, For those who love this dish, theres nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.