Today is, of course, April Fool’s Day, and I thought I’d share with you one of the best April Fool’s Day pranks ever: the great Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.
It happened on April 1, 1957, when “the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland”. Thousands of curious viewers called the BBC to ask about the harvest, and many asked where they could buy their own spaghetti trees!