Spaghetti tree

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A photo of a woman harvesting spaghetti in the BBC programme.
A photo of a woman harvesting spaghetti in the BBC programme.

The Spaghetti tree is  a fictitious tree, a joke designed to fool those who do not know how spaghetti is  produced.

The report that it  is a product grown on trees was first produced as an  April Fools' Day joke by the BBC TV programme Panorama in 1957, reporting on the bumper spaghetti harvest in Ticino, Switzerland due to the mild winter and  "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil". The report was given additional gravitas by the voiceover by respected broadcaster Richard Dimbleby. Pasta was not an  everyday food in 1950s Britain, and  was known mainly from tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce. it  was partly filmed at the (now closed) Pasta Foods factory on London Road, St Albans in Hertfordshire, and  also at a hotel in Switzerland.

An audience of approximately 8 million watched the programme, broadcast on April 1, and  hundreds phoned in the following day to ask for more  information about spaghetti cultivation and  how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. The BBC reportedly told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and  hope for the best".

The Spaghetti Tree myth was also used in a popular 1970s TV commercial for Delmonico spaghetti.

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