HackerTube / Video
BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism
Switzerland
The 1957 BBC Panorama April Fools' hoax report showing a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees, republished by Switzerland Tourism. It is a short deadpan newsreel clip with a plummy narrator that famously fooled viewers who knew little about pasta.
HN uses it mostly as a joke reference whenever pasta, harvests or April Fools pranks come up, and a few recommend it as a perfectly executed hoax.
11 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2023