Laughter is the best medicine....they said

Well, we all know where spaghetti comes from now
but back in the days, people are a lot more gullible and a lot less curious.

So, back in the year 1957, on April fools day
the British Broadcasting Corporation tried a startling trick on its news show Panorama.
Journalist Richard Dimbleby offered viewers a tour of a "spaghetti harvest" in Ticino, Switzerland.
"The last 2 weeks of March are an anxious time for spaghetti farmers," Dimbleby earnestly reports as a family was shown plucking strips of pasta off trees. " There's the chance of a late frost, which, while not entirely ruining the crop, generally impairs the flavor." The story concluded, " for those who love this dish, there's nothing like homegrown spaghetti."
After the report ran, the BBC was flooded with calls from people asking where they might get a spaghetti tree. They were reportedly told to "place a sprig or spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

Here's a woman harvesting spaghetti...