From spaghetti on timber to Google Nose: listed below are all probably the most well-known “fish” | EUROtoday

Listen to the audio model of the article

Even in the present day it is likely one of the most well-known “fish” in historical past. Was broadcast on April 1, 1957 by the diabolical BBC within the severe “Panorama” tv topical program. In a service of about three minutes, “The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest”, He showed himself The collection of spaghetti from trees in Ticino, Italian Switzerland.

Spaghetti on trees

At the time, spaghetti were so little known in Great Britain that Hundreds of subjects of Elizabeth called the BBC asking how to grow their own spaghetti tree in the garden (with the switchboard operators trained to respond: “Put a handful of spaghetti in a can of tomato sauce and hope for the most effective”).

The idea of ​​the joke came to the Austrian Cineoperator Charles de JaegerBBC veteran, remembering His master of elementary school who always said to the most listless schoolchildren “You are so silly that in the event that they informed you that spaghetti develop on the timber you’ll imagine it”.

In the fiction the help of the Ticino tourist office was decisive, which found a way to soften raw spaghetti to prevent them from flying from the trees. The joke cost the BBC just 100 pounds Entering the anthology of superclassics.

But there isn’t any scarcity of fish which have change into legendary. One of the oldest dates again to finish of the thirteenth centurywhen Buoncompagno from Florence introduced to the Bolognese who on April 1st would fly over town on a tool of his invention.