Is Seeing Believing?
The Spaghetti Harvest
| The most convincing hoaxes,
however, are often the ones created by the experts themselves. On April 1,
1957,the BBC's prestigious "Panorama" TV show reported on the
"spaghetti harvest" in Switzerland:
"The spaghetti harvest here in
Switzerland is not, of course, carried out on anything like the tremendous
scale of the Italian industry," Dimbleday told viewers. "For the
Swiss ... it tends to be more of a family affair." Viewers eager to
grow spaghetti were reportedly told by the BBC to "place a sprig of
spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." (To be
fair, spaghetti was an exotic dish in Britain in the 1950s.) |
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