Spaghetti harvesting

Hmm! Tuesday is April Fools’ Day and in honor of that I was looking through some of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time.  As it turns out we’ve actually spoken about more than a few of them, classics being Oprah Winfrey’s head transposed on Ann Margaret’s body and Abraham Lincoln’s head onto John Calhoun’s body.  It struck me in the end that there was none better than one shown in an April Fools’ Day 1957 edition of the BBC program “Panorama” purporting to be a woman harvesting spaghetti in Ticino, Switzerland.  It’s just ridiculous! Everybody knows that spaghetti really comes from Italy!