And people weren't dumb in the fifties, or at least not any dumber than today... Think of all the hoaxes around us now: they're more elaborate because now we have access to a lot more information, but some of them are completely believable, just as this spaghetti crop must have been to an audience that probably had never set foot abroad and wasn't used to the variety of food that is now available in our supermarkets...
The intro is not a problem!! It's only that nowadays people watching TV are subject to a lot more stimuli and are not used to sit and wait... Actually the intro is in character with the rest of the film.
I liked every aspect of this bit. The long intro suited me just fine. And I stood to gain a bit of knowledge I never had, not previously realising that spaghetti was even grown in this region.
@alienlabs As I commented in an earlier post we are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this intro done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
Good. Unfortunately this is no real excuse, most voted comment on this video complains about the same thing, meaning that you dont need a commercial designer to actually realize how slow and empty is the intro sequence. Limited resources is also weird, only resource you need here is common sense and a pair of eyes to tell you 31 secs of slow intro before the actual footage are something nobody would like to go through. You dont need "resources" to make something shorter, dont you?
@alienlabs We don't have the time or resources to go back and re-edit uploads that have our "old" trailer at the start. All our other uploaded items, over the past two years, have our "new" trailer.
I remember seeing this on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar when I was in the 3rd grade. Spaghetti was not known in our house. The only pasta we ate was macaroni & cheese, but, as an 8 year old, I knew this was a spoof, and it sent me into convulsions of laughter (I was a big Mad Magazine reader, and it struck the same nerve). I had not thought about this for 50 years!!!. THANK YOU for resurrecting this wonderfully absurd piece of tomfoolery... unsurpassed, but only matched by Monty Python .
I'm old enough to remember this and indeed spaghetti was a strange foreign food in 1957. I remember yogurt being introduced, it tasted like battery acid and was referred to as "rotten milk" - ee by gum those were t'days!
People from the fifties are so dumb. How can anyone think that spaghetti grows on trees? That's like saying that pancakes grow on a pancake vine or rice grows in semi-submerged fields in India. Just totally unbelievable.
@afrosmaximus It's not that people in the 1950's were dumb, society was different then and spaghetti was not widely available like it is today. Rationing had only been over for a few years and most people in the UK only knew of spaghetti in tins.
@aptsarchive Oh... you mean spaghetti grew in tins first, perhaps underground like potatoes, and only when the weather got better started growing on trees... right ?
@dorkyboy981 We all know that rice is not a plant or grain, it is in fact a protein that is harvested from sheep like creatures called Arayaks. They grow these grains all over their nearly hairless skin, which are then sheared off and hardened. The Arayak is native to the regions from northern India all the way up into present day North Korea, but was imported into China and Japan by Hindu and later Buddhist priests when they spread their religion.
@afrosmaximus Following up from what aptsarchive said, people's belief in the prank was a testament to the inherent following of the BBC at the time. The joke preys on the audiences' complete trust of the BBC and of what they saw on television. People in the 50's were not dumb, and with all respect, what you're saying is anachronistic.
This is blasphemy! I know where spaghetti comes from. It is wherever the Flying Spaghetti Monster wills it into existence. Praise his noodly appendages!
A classic hoax. Full of little details and whimsical asides to round out the whole story. Simple and harmless, I wonder how many people went years thinking spaghetti grew on trees? BTW - the whole "aldente" meme of serving spaghetti is an equal hoax. There's no reason to have the noodle slightly firm on the inside other than to introduce some element of snobbish ritual and complexity to its boil-and-serve quality. Since it's not a fresh vegetable, the practice has no value.
Dont you just hate it when people moan about someones video when they were kind enough to post it simply for our enjoyment?! Thanks for sharing, great bit of footage :)
@MediaThoughts Yes this intro is far too long, which is why we wanted it changing. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
Anything downloaded from the internet would not be pertinant to our society.
@Elantry As I commented in an earlier post we are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this intro done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
I was eight years old when they ran this video on US news. I didn't know it wasn't true and was wondering why my folks were laughing so hard. They then explained it too me! Still didn't really get it. What a difference time makes. That is the funniest thing I have ever watched! My parents were right. Bravo to Panorama for their brilliance!
@Bobaklives We are not claiming to be the BBC! However we work extremely closely with the BBC and still need to know if one of our clips in embedded on another web-site. There is an easy option, disable all embedding for our clips!
@Bobaklives No we are not the BBC, and never claim to be. Our society works in close association with the BBC History department, as well as the BFI and other "official" bodies. We have an intro to our uploaded so that if the footage on our YouTube Channel is embedded on other people's sites, it is easily identifiable. As previously stated, our new logo is shorter, more direct and has an added sound track.
@compositebmx We are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this to done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track as well.
@ZeAntiNooob ..In the Canadian climate, I've had much better luck with fetuccini. Gnochi does very well too. I think it's the soil in the Okanagan Valley.
@huweybaby Newspapers and the general media do this every year still. Phoney articles by ironically named writers are slipped into even the most respected newspapers, in recent years the times has run with a story about specially bred tartan sheep and the telegraph with plans to harness the power of fish for energy. Anyway, the daily mail run with even more farfetched stories the rest of the year.
Oh come on, why are you people so quick to think this is fake? I had to keep my spaghetti trees in perfect condition through the whole winter to be able to make those crops! It's hard to make ends meet when the spaghetti has decided to grow at much shorter lengths, I guess i'm not feeding my trees enough tomato sauce for proper growth...
I was just telling my son about seeing this when I was eight and going to school to convince my teacher - can't believe how my parents and the teachers played along with it! Gotta love the 50's!!!!!
:D Hilarious! In school we talked about this in preparation for Orson Welles' radio play 'The War of the Worlds', and it's so funny that people really believed what they were told about the spaghetti harvest! Media awareness...;-) I wonder how I would have reacted if I had lived in the fifties...:D
This was shown on American TV (or possibly an American copy of it) I just remember people picking spaghetti off trees in a documentary style. Very Funny!
@elvishodzic0 Not really you've just got to remember that in those days pasta wasn't really a common occurence in Britain, it was still a relitively new thing.
I saw this when I was 8 years old and believed it for several years. It was broadcast as a filler after a Saturday TV movie on a Washington DC station, and no one believed my testimony about it. A small article on it buried in a newspaper about 10 years later re-confirmed my earlier "sighting".
haha my history teacher was talking about this today..im still not sure how we got on this topic but we were..and he was going to show us but we ran out of time in class but this is great..and people actually believed them for many years to come after and would call in and they would have to tell them it was a april fools joke hahahah
I saw it way back when,I never forgot , but never could find it before now. I had a great time convincing some of my naive friends it was true, citing the video as proof. Ah, good times.
@ryan34ssj I did find it funny, but it also affirmed my thoughts of this world being like a fish in a fishbowl. And the fact that people accustom their opinions to what they see on the telly hasn't changed much since this video was made. Lol, spaghetti on trees though, I still don't know where spaghetti grows from, if I watched this thing in that time I would have believed it.
my daad told me about this a while ago and didn't think it was going to be that convincing but wow! that was kinda but i've grow- ... umm made spagetti and panorma was so so so serious... ... ...lol!
@ZagiEscobar This was made only 3 years after rationing had ended, before then most of the population in England had to live on basic foods, this is no more unusual than the War of the Worlds broadcast panicking U.S.A. citizens in 1938
sounds a bit like grapefruit seed injected with essential oil of beef so producing minced beef in a grapefruit skin, thereby giving us the luxury of eating beef without the slaughtering of cows. i saw this in a magazine called the national enquirer i think.does anyone know of it?
The Swiss generally grow a higher quality spaghetti, but it as not as thick as the North American populace likes. The warmer climates of Southern Italy ironically produce the thicker spaghetti favored by the northern climates.
I learned about this from a book, and it's one of the most hilarious april fools' pranks i've ever seen. how awesome it would've been to receive calls from people asking about where they can buy those spaghetti tree plants.
@yukikokaoin this doesnt make sense at all. spaghetti is made of wheat , water and eggs which is processed and shaped into the said spaghetti.whoever is taken in by this hoax documentry must be crazy.
Alas, I doubt if any TV station would have the courage to do something as elaborate as this today, fearing complaints of all sorts. Times, sadly, have changed :-(
I too saw this in 1957 when I was eleven. I totally believed it. Not that hard to do, I had never seen any form of pasta and I was vaguely aware that spaghetti was food found in Italy.
I heard that in 1957 eating pasta was rather uncommon in the UK, so in fact some people, when they saw this, actually believed it was real because they had no idea about how pasta's actually made. True?
I've seen this video over the years and still think it is one of the best April Fool's stunts ever done. Fooled quite a large part of the British population as well.
Blimey! Did people actually believe that?
alloftimeandspace22 5 days ago
0:30
roxzey3 1 week ago
You can't grow spaghetti, believe me, I have tried.
skeeveskeeve 2 weeks ago
this is like, the grandfather of trolling
FlyingSujin67 2 weeks ago
so what was it in the tree? was it another type of plant
11danyboy11 2 weeks ago
that's a great prank! :D
Guthorm 1 month ago
And people weren't dumb in the fifties, or at least not any dumber than today... Think of all the hoaxes around us now: they're more elaborate because now we have access to a lot more information, but some of them are completely believable, just as this spaghetti crop must have been to an audience that probably had never set foot abroad and wasn't used to the variety of food that is now available in our supermarkets...
jamarabee 1 month ago
The intro is not a problem!! It's only that nowadays people watching TV are subject to a lot more stimuli and are not used to sit and wait... Actually the intro is in character with the rest of the film.
jamarabee 1 month ago
woooow
Giada379 1 month ago
AWW HECK NO!!! Why must ALL Italian food become plants?
Skullshadow99 1 month ago
feeble humans!
AlexRaveloTV 2 months ago
lol! I showed this to my 14 year old brother and he believed it !!! :P
AlterBridgeAndA7X 2 months ago
the day the world lost to the TV lies...
BrainOnVacation 2 months ago
I liked every aspect of this bit. The long intro suited me just fine. And I stood to gain a bit of knowledge I never had, not previously realising that spaghetti was even grown in this region.
madamerotten 2 months ago
Vintage trolling.
Lyonskel1 3 months ago
31 seconds of frightening nothing before the video actually begins.
alienlabs 3 months ago 15
@alienlabs As I commented in an earlier post we are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this intro done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
aptsarchive 3 months ago 4
@aptsarchive
Good. Unfortunately this is no real excuse, most voted comment on this video complains about the same thing, meaning that you dont need a commercial designer to actually realize how slow and empty is the intro sequence. Limited resources is also weird, only resource you need here is common sense and a pair of eyes to tell you 31 secs of slow intro before the actual footage are something nobody would like to go through. You dont need "resources" to make something shorter, dont you?
alienlabs 3 months ago 6
@alienlabs We don't have the time or resources to go back and re-edit uploads that have our "old" trailer at the start. All our other uploaded items, over the past two years, have our "new" trailer.
aptsarchive 3 months ago 4
@alienlabs LOOOL!!!
uomodimerda 3 weeks ago
Macaroni & cheese? VERY sophisticated. We had macaroni pudding, with milk and sugar - and a sprinkling of nutmeg.
arbutus27 3 months ago
Rice does grow in semi-submerged fields at least that is sorta believable.
dorkyboy981 3 months ago
I remember seeing this on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar when I was in the 3rd grade. Spaghetti was not known in our house. The only pasta we ate was macaroni & cheese, but, as an 8 year old, I knew this was a spoof, and it sent me into convulsions of laughter (I was a big Mad Magazine reader, and it struck the same nerve). I had not thought about this for 50 years!!!. THANK YOU for resurrecting this wonderfully absurd piece of tomfoolery... unsurpassed, but only matched by Monty Python .
sunnskyy 4 months ago 2
coudnt stop laughing :D
Toenail249 4 months ago
A quarter of that 3 minutes was the intro. -_-
GamerDude200 4 months ago
H ahahaha I love this
m34nb34n 4 months ago
Where can i buy those trees?!?
gu4rez 4 months ago
i was -22 lololololololo
smsm032 4 months ago
It's amazing how TV has this power of illusion. Critical sense first friends!
josevicenteoliveira 5 months ago
british humor is... ...holy crap... oh... so... boooOOOOOOooooring...
nbaietti 5 months ago
@nbaietti Don't you mean...humour?
TigerAmongstMen 5 months ago 6
Jovem Nerd?
itzWiLLiaM 5 months ago 9
#LOL
the200bpm 5 months ago
I'm old enough to remember this and indeed spaghetti was a strange foreign food in 1957. I remember yogurt being introduced, it tasted like battery acid and was referred to as "rotten milk" - ee by gum those were t'days!
xocretep 5 months ago
People from the fifties are so dumb. How can anyone think that spaghetti grows on trees? That's like saying that pancakes grow on a pancake vine or rice grows in semi-submerged fields in India. Just totally unbelievable.
afrosmaximus 5 months ago 4
@afrosmaximus It's not that people in the 1950's were dumb, society was different then and spaghetti was not widely available like it is today. Rationing had only been over for a few years and most people in the UK only knew of spaghetti in tins.
aptsarchive 5 months ago 20
@aptsarchive I think that was a joke.
p13m4n 1 month ago
@aptsarchive Helloooooooooooooooooo. He was JOKING, do you know? :D
MaxPace89 1 month ago
@aptsarchive Oh... you mean spaghetti grew in tins first, perhaps underground like potatoes, and only when the weather got better started growing on trees... right ?
It's a bit like the theory of 31February...
lambdavi 3 weeks ago
Rice does grow in semi-submerged fields at least that is sorta believable.
dorkyboy981 3 months ago
@dorkyboy981 We all know that rice is not a plant or grain, it is in fact a protein that is harvested from sheep like creatures called Arayaks. They grow these grains all over their nearly hairless skin, which are then sheared off and hardened. The Arayak is native to the regions from northern India all the way up into present day North Korea, but was imported into China and Japan by Hindu and later Buddhist priests when they spread their religion.
rmiller415 2 months ago
@afrosmaximus Following up from what aptsarchive said, people's belief in the prank was a testament to the inherent following of the BBC at the time. The joke preys on the audiences' complete trust of the BBC and of what they saw on television. People in the 50's were not dumb, and with all respect, what you're saying is anachronistic.
inhat0 2 weeks ago
@afrosmaximus
oh yeah? do you know how curry is croped?
Holowachuk 5 days ago
to think that when this first air over in Europe people actually believed this. that's why it's one of the greatest April fools jokes ever!
shadowspain101 6 months ago
This is blasphemy! I know where spaghetti comes from. It is wherever the Flying Spaghetti Monster wills it into existence. Praise his noodly appendages!
TheLostRealist513 6 months ago 4
A classic hoax. Full of little details and whimsical asides to round out the whole story. Simple and harmless, I wonder how many people went years thinking spaghetti grew on trees? BTW - the whole "aldente" meme of serving spaghetti is an equal hoax. There's no reason to have the noodle slightly firm on the inside other than to introduce some element of snobbish ritual and complexity to its boil-and-serve quality. Since it's not a fresh vegetable, the practice has no value.
Tobacc0 6 months ago
Brrrilliant! :D
londonbridgebox 6 months ago
Dont you just hate it when people moan about someones video when they were kind enough to post it simply for our enjoyment?! Thanks for sharing, great bit of footage :)
charlala87 6 months ago 6
8 people don't respect nature.
LoreSka 6 months ago
why ticino ????
nekkier09 6 months ago
oh my god.... sure, spaghetti on trees and cash in my kitchen-garden....
Andratos95 6 months ago
yuk im not eating that speghetti
MultiVietMinh 6 months ago
254,066 for me. Great video. lol
Montealto09 7 months ago
WE WANT MEATBALL TREES!!!!
poolehart 7 months ago
I'm the 249,999 th viewer.
kanjitard 7 months ago
I think many people would believe this today...
kpsars 7 months ago
I HOPE IT MADE LOTSA SPAGHETTI!
Supermariofanperson 8 months ago 2
ahhaahhaha
namaikput 9 months ago
@MediaThoughts Yes this intro is far too long, which is why we wanted it changing. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
Anything downloaded from the internet would not be pertinant to our society.
aptsarchive 9 months ago
reminds me of Wall-E when the captain was all excited about pizza plants
tywash24 9 months ago
I was just myself planting pizza pocket tree seeds earlier today. We do have mild weather so I'm hoping the cheese won't be moldy inside this year.
ForeverVachon 9 months ago
Best April fools day joke of all time!
stegatops 9 months ago
Intro a bit long, but thanks for the post. Hilarious.
Elantry 9 months ago 19
@Elantry As I commented in an earlier post we are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this intro done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track.
aptsarchive 9 months ago 6
@aptsarchive Coll I saw the new intro, but after i posted! =)
Elantry 9 months ago
00:30 is where it starts.
Elantry 9 months ago
My spaghetti tree was a gift from the flying spaghetti monster himself.
jamundertoast 9 months ago 3
orson welles radio version of war of the world was not a hoax people who heard it from the beginning knew it was a drama
xandy1959 10 months ago
thanks for pointing this out, Margaret Atwood
ASymmetricEight 10 months ago
Oh BBC you so funny
greenwolf52 10 months ago
I love the BBC!!! This is the best April Fool's joke ever!!!
OutlawMinniePearl 10 months ago
I was eight years old when they ran this video on US news. I didn't know it wasn't true and was wondering why my folks were laughing so hard. They then explained it too me! Still didn't really get it. What a difference time makes. That is the funniest thing I have ever watched! My parents were right. Bravo to Panorama for their brilliance!
nccure55 10 months ago
The only pasta we can grow is Kansas is Orzo--It's just too hot and dry for anything that doesn't resemble wheat.
bstevens431 10 months ago
The only pasta we can grow is Kansas is Orzo--It's just too hot and dry for anything that doesn't resemble wheat.
bstevens431 10 months ago
I found one on YouTube by SaghirAraf that's the same thing but without the 30 second intro if you were looking to embed it on your site like I was.
Bobaklives 10 months ago
@Bobaklives That's why we have an intro sequence, so that if the footage is embedded on another site, we still know it is our footage.
aptsarchive 10 months ago
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Elantry 9 months ago
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Bobaklives 9 months ago
@aptsarchive What could have been done in 1 second didn't need 30, and since you're not the BBC I think your reasoning is even more disingenuous.
Bobaklives 9 months ago
@Bobaklives We are not claiming to be the BBC! However we work extremely closely with the BBC and still need to know if one of our clips in embedded on another web-site. There is an easy option, disable all embedding for our clips!
aptsarchive 9 months ago
@Bobaklives No we are not the BBC, and never claim to be. Our society works in close association with the BBC History department, as well as the BFI and other "official" bodies. We have an intro to our uploaded so that if the footage on our YouTube Channel is embedded on other people's sites, it is easily identifiable. As previously stated, our new logo is shorter, more direct and has an added sound track.
aptsarchive 9 months ago
A'm a spaghatta nadle!
Dee3BoobTube 10 months ago
This person's title sequence is the worst thing ever.
compositebmx 10 months ago 44
@compositebmx We are a none profit organisation and are not able to pay for such things as commercial designers, so this to done in house with limited resources. Our new animated logo, which can be seen on all our more recent uploads is shorter, more direct and has the addition of an audio track as well.
aptsarchive 10 months ago
My Mother, god bless her soul, would not believe EVER that this all a hoax.
And she was Italian!!!!!!
faldos1 10 months ago
loving the 30 second intro.
whoatherejohnny 10 months ago
PASTAAA!
Kookiechan1 10 months ago
everyone go watch The Sargentos to celebrate this kick ass hoax
yackon4game 10 months ago
rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhtttttttttt :) funny bunny....
puueo 10 months ago
i can't believe if someone actually could buy it lol
kokonvee 10 months ago
0:30 to start the real part of the video
aortizisawsome 10 months ago 12
Ну вот и навешали всем лапшу! :)))
3dfanru 10 months ago
hahaha was this actually broadcast on tv? :D
Adestructionproduct 10 months ago
LOLOLLOLOLLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLLOLOOLOOLO
DomoL0ve 10 months ago
To grow your own spaghetti tree you simply plant a sprig of spaghetti in a pot of tomato sauce and place it in your front yard.
ZeAntiNooob 10 months ago 5
@ZeAntiNooob ..In the Canadian climate, I've had much better luck with fetuccini. Gnochi does very well too. I think it's the soil in the Okanagan Valley.
mapache11 10 months ago 5
If they did this nowadays the Daily Mail would be full of articles about the waste of tax-payers money fir a joke.
huweybaby 10 months ago
@huweybaby Newspapers and the general media do this every year still. Phoney articles by ironically named writers are slipped into even the most respected newspapers, in recent years the times has run with a story about specially bred tartan sheep and the telegraph with plans to harness the power of fish for energy. Anyway, the daily mail run with even more farfetched stories the rest of the year.
danbahrami 10 months ago 2
Oh come on, why are you people so quick to think this is fake? I had to keep my spaghetti trees in perfect condition through the whole winter to be able to make those crops! It's hard to make ends meet when the spaghetti has decided to grow at much shorter lengths, I guess i'm not feeding my trees enough tomato sauce for proper growth...
nightmaredaemon 10 months ago 4
I was just telling my son about seeing this when I was eight and going to school to convince my teacher - can't believe how my parents and the teachers played along with it! Gotta love the 50's!!!!!
gramma105 10 months ago 2
I AM ACTUALLY PMSL
bobsbigjoke 10 months ago
Ahahahah =P
riot1995puffo 10 months ago
why does it have to say april fools in the title. I wand to show it to my friends and make them believe it. it's stupid. put it in the description.
Homer92 11 months ago
:D Hilarious! In school we talked about this in preparation for Orson Welles' radio play 'The War of the Worlds', and it's so funny that people really believed what they were told about the spaghetti harvest! Media awareness...;-) I wonder how I would have reacted if I had lived in the fifties...:D
Schrotter0512 11 months ago
Back then the BBC was the most reputable news and pasta wasn't known much like it is today...
MrDrunknbass 1 year ago
This was shown on American TV (or possibly an American copy of it) I just remember people picking spaghetti off trees in a documentary style. Very Funny!
nostalgiajunkie70 1 year ago
It was repeated decades later, in late Oct '92.
Hosted by Michael Parkinson, under the title of "Spaghettiwatch."
ladster3 1 year ago
and it is, of course, spaghetti
withperfecttiming 1 year ago
this should have billions of views. or millions. some people don't get it.
withperfecttiming 1 year ago
@elvishodzic0 Not really you've just got to remember that in those days pasta wasn't really a common occurence in Britain, it was still a relitively new thing.
Saisons1234 1 year ago
3 people didn't get the joke haha^
marcusfivesixthree 1 year ago
@marcusfivesixthree
or they were wanting to see Justin Bieber
Mascro1977 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
BULLSHIT everyone knows you have to hunt spaghetti!
sultankhan786 1 year ago 6
It's so odd watching this today, I've seen so MANY spoof newscasts over the years since this that it's hard to believe anyone was taken in by it.
sonica02 1 year ago
Where can I buy seeds for those? I would like them already cooked :) with bolognese please.
MiGGoFin 1 year ago
I saw this when I was 8 years old and believed it for several years. It was broadcast as a filler after a Saturday TV movie on a Washington DC station, and no one believed my testimony about it. A small article on it buried in a newspaper about 10 years later re-confirmed my earlier "sighting".
IBWIV 1 year ago
There is an earlier one from the first army while they were pushing through italy. They even tapped the trees for mainara
ginagrant1 1 year ago
haha my history teacher was talking about this today..im still not sure how we got on this topic but we were..and he was going to show us but we ran out of time in class but this is great..and people actually believed them for many years to come after and would call in and they would have to tell them it was a april fools joke hahahah
dressagegirlXD 1 year ago
I've always wondered if some people at the time thought that spaghetti made from flour was an imitation of stuff that grew on trees.
willpurry 1 year ago
so where do i sign up to get my tree??????
joker0187 1 year ago
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aqwplayer222 1 year ago
great 04 fools hoax
RayTCC1 1 year ago
So wait, the spaghetti weasel disappeared, and no one knows what happened to it?
TheDolphinable 1 year ago
@TheDolphinable
It's spaghetti weevil. Who's ever heard of a spaghetti weasel?? That's simply ridiculous!
smaakjeks 1 year ago
I saw it way back when,I never forgot , but never could find it before now. I had a great time convincing some of my naive friends it was true, citing the video as proof. Ah, good times.
CozWiz 1 year ago
Thats a point in every society Zagi...
menschmeier1985 1 year ago
@ZagiEscobar Dude, that's kind of... the point?
flyworld3 1 year ago
(〃^∇^)o彡☆ スパゲティーの木を庭に植えました。
スパゲティーが豊作でした。ありがとうございます。
Spaghetti trees planted in the garden.
The spaghetti was a bumper crop.Thank you.
simantoriver 1 year ago
@ZagiEscobar
april fools matey, have a laugh
ryan34ssj 1 year ago
@ryan34ssj I did find it funny, but it also affirmed my thoughts of this world being like a fish in a fishbowl. And the fact that people accustom their opinions to what they see on the telly hasn't changed much since this video was made. Lol, spaghetti on trees though, I still don't know where spaghetti grows from, if I watched this thing in that time I would have believed it.
ZagiEscobar 1 year ago
@Lizzilolaphobia LOL. That made me laugh so hard, Italians indeed...
Lascupa0788 1 year ago
my daad told me about this a while ago and didn't think it was going to be that convincing but wow! that was kinda but i've grow- ... umm made spagetti and panorma was so so so serious... ... ...lol!
xjam123 1 year ago
I don't think we're gonna make much of a good harvest, what with Veneziano noming on it all.
Lizzilolaphobia 1 year ago
@ZagiEscobar This was made only 3 years after rationing had ended, before then most of the population in England had to live on basic foods, this is no more unusual than the War of the Worlds broadcast panicking U.S.A. citizens in 1938
stickman69uk2002 1 year ago
lol people believed it because a lot of British people never had spaghetti before. XD
chibiyaten15 1 year ago
So cute. xD
arrogantchild 1 year ago
id rather be british than american
LegomationVISION 1 year ago
@LegomationVISION i am british... i wanna be american...):(
xjam123 1 year ago
WAHAHA! I remembered this! My English teacher showed this to us! xD
CrimsonXVince 1 year ago
No one missed the like button so far, get in there!
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TheTrampolinist 1 year ago
sounds a bit like grapefruit seed injected with essential oil of beef so producing minced beef in a grapefruit skin, thereby giving us the luxury of eating beef without the slaughtering of cows. i saw this in a magazine called the national enquirer i think.does anyone know of it?
mitzi7416 1 year ago
The Swiss generally grow a higher quality spaghetti, but it as not as thick as the North American populace likes. The warmer climates of Southern Italy ironically produce the thicker spaghetti favored by the northern climates.
kohiisan 1 year ago
Best.April.Fool.EVER :)
MrApplelovin 1 year ago
thats messed up
supermario64777 1 year ago
1:15 = Elephant snot. Lmfao. xD
rachelchunter 1 year ago
I learned about this from a book, and it's one of the most hilarious april fools' pranks i've ever seen. how awesome it would've been to receive calls from people asking about where they can buy those spaghetti tree plants.
yukikokaoin 1 year ago 41
It was one of the most seen April Fools pranks that has ever been broadcast.
aptsarchive 1 year ago 21
@yukikokaoin Yeah, I heard there was an end of the world joke once
CheeseGenius 1 year ago
@yukikokaoin this doesnt make sense at all. spaghetti is made of wheat , water and eggs which is processed and shaped into the said spaghetti.whoever is taken in by this hoax documentry must be crazy.
mitzi7416 1 year ago
@yukikokaoin Is the book's name "A Field Guide to the British"? I am reading it right now! XD
Licenciada 1 year ago
@yukikokaoin stupid history?
roboneko77 1 year ago
@yukikokaoin i would have pissed myself!
withperfecttiming 1 year ago
I saw this in the UK in my teens. Until that time spaghetti for me was Heinz in tomato sauce lol
papaalphamike 1 year ago
lol
boriblue12 1 year ago
Haha my dad was watching this live :L
xxcoral2k9xx 1 year ago
Alas, I doubt if any TV station would have the courage to do something as elaborate as this today, fearing complaints of all sorts. Times, sadly, have changed :-(
youtubister 1 year ago 4
LMAOOO This is sooo cool!! I wish the news here would do it too!
murasakijade 1 year ago
"The slopes overlooking Lake Lugano have already bust into fla."
Nobody talks like this any more!
MowgliX 1 year ago 2
Wonderful. Thank for sharing it.
ResilientMichael 1 year ago
I see this vid last week, that italian newspaper focus choose it as best pesce d'aprile (april fool)
leccoforever 1 year ago
mi teacher prankd s bi this vid lol
cames2222 1 year ago
I too saw this in 1957 when I was eleven. I totally believed it. Not that hard to do, I had never seen any form of pasta and I was vaguely aware that spaghetti was food found in Italy.
cymrumum 1 year ago 2
Insane! This is a clip we are studying about persuasion in communication.
Moviewritingjoe 1 year ago
Great! :)
davidkasquare 1 year ago
how educational!
you'd never get this past Compliance these days
and if you did
you'd get ten thousand complaints
and someone would have to resign
MehefinHeulog 1 year ago 2
I heard that in 1957 eating pasta was rather uncommon in the UK, so in fact some people, when they saw this, actually believed it was real because they had no idea about how pasta's actually made. True?
jposh707 1 year ago
@jposh707
Yes. Many people in the UK, adults and children, even today haven't got a clue about how the food was produced that they eat.
TheTrampolinist 1 year ago
Many people actually responded to this piece, asking how to go about cultivating their own spaghetti trees.
LurkilyModAbuse 1 year ago
@LurkilyModAbuse LMAOOO!!!
murasakijade 1 year ago
53 years on and still the best April Fools! The genius of broacasting this on Panarama with Sir Richard Dimbleby narrating. Auntie Beeb at her best.
khbarr13 1 year ago
I've seen this video over the years and still think it is one of the best April Fool's stunts ever done. Fooled quite a large part of the British population as well.
Just the best.
Buzzramjet 1 year ago
I was a child when I first saw this on the Jack Parr show (in the states) and I was young and foolish enough to swallow it... hook, line, and sinker"
Anonymous
:)
FSTOPDR 1 year ago
I was a child when I first saw this on the Jack Parr show (in the states) and I was young and foolish enough to swallow it... hook, line, and sinker"
Anonymous
:)
FSTOPDR 1 year ago
Very funny! Keith Olbermann had it on the show 4-1-2010
urielstud 1 year ago
So...how does one go about growing spagetti crops? Do I need any special tools (besides a wonderful sense of humor, that is lol)?
blackwingangel04 1 year ago
I love spaghetti! Thank you to all of those hard-working spaghetti farmers. :D
applesquareandmarvin 1 year ago
My teacher tricked our class into beleiving that this was true. Then i rememberd, "oh wait, todays april fools, isnt it..."
webkinzluver1231 1 year ago