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"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.


BBC - Spaghetti Harvest - 1st April 1957

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