Spaghetti Harvest, BBC Newsreel from 1957. Loaded 4-01-2017. Go to the video
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In 1957, in the early days of television, the BBC Panorama presenter Richard Dimbleby announced that a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of a type of weevil had allowed Swiss farmers to enjoy a bumper spaghetti crop.
It accompanied its announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees and laying them in the sun to dry. Mr Dimbleby explained how each strand of spaghetti always grew to the same length thanks to years of selective breeding by generations of growers.
Text, picture and Video are BBC
Spaghetti Harvest, BBC Newsreel from 1957. Loaded 4-01-2017. Go to the video
go to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
In 1957, in the early days of television, the BBC Panorama presenter Richard Dimbleby announced that a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of a type of weevil had allowed Swiss farmers to enjoy a bumper spaghetti crop.
It accompanied its announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees and laying them in the sun to dry. Mr Dimbleby explained how each strand of spaghetti always grew to the same length thanks to years of selective breeding by generations of growers.
Text, picture and Video are BBC