Although
it's
very
popular
nowadays
,
____________________
the
1950s
pasta
was
an
unusual
meal
in
the
UK
.
Not
many
British
people
had
been
to
Italy
,
and
very
few
people
knew
how
pasta
was
made
.
So
,
for
April
Fool's
Day
in
1957
,
the
BBC
news
programme
Panorama
decided
to
make
a
story
about
spaghetti
growing
on
trees
.
____________________
the
programme
,
viewers
were
told
that
the
harvest
that
year
was
particularly
good
because
of
the
weather
.
And
____________________
the
presenter
explained
how
spaghetti
was
grown
,
there
was
a
film
of
workers
in
the
background
cutting
the
spaghetti
from
the
trees
.
____________________
the
programme
had
been
broadcast
,
the
BBC
started
receiving
phone
calls
from
people
who
wanted
to
grow
their
own
spaghetti
.
____________________
,
the
BBC
continued
the
joke
by
instructing
anyone
who
wanted
to
grow
a
spaghetti
tree
to
'place
a
piece
of
spaghetti
in
a
tin
of
tomato
sauce
.
'
____________________
the
story
was
revealed
to
be
an
April
Fool's
Day
joke
,
hundreds
of
people
had
contacted
the
BBC
.
