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Did anyone catch this April fool's joke from Butterfinger?

Someone's hand holding a Butterfinger candy bar.Did anyone else catch this joke? I know it's a few days late, but I just came across it and I don't remember seeing it on any other food blogs. This is actually pretty funny, and I wish I had seen it in time for the actual day in question.

I found a press release that claimed that Nestle's Butterfinger bar was changing its name to the Finger, effective immediately. I didn't even notice the date of the press release until later, but I wondered to myself if this wasn't a late April fool's joke. Nope, it was a right-on-time joke.

Anyway, check this out for the whole joke. Hopefully you'll laugh as much as I did, even if it is a little late.

One of the greatest April Fool's jokes ever: Swiss spaghetti harvest

Black and white arty image of dried spaghetti.It's April 1st and you know what that means: it's April Fool's Day! You'll probably be avoiding (or not) tricks all day. I bet nothing will top this one from the BBC.

A well respected news program called Panorama broadcast a story in 1957 about a great spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. The public fell for it hook, line, and sinker. The BBC fielded hundreds of calls from viewers asking how they, too, could grow a spaghetti tree, to which they answered "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

This is the first I had heard of this, but it is classic! The footage from the original story is quite nice, but I can't imagine anyone actually believing it. Ah well, I guess I come from a much more cynical and media savvy age, but it's neat to look back on a time when a hoax like this was possible.

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Famous Spaghetti Harvest

It was fifty years ago that BBC first broadcast the famous "Spaghetti Harvest" episode on their television news show Panorama. In Ticino in southern Swistzerland near Italy, the British Broadcasting Company show Panorama covered the bumper Swiss spaghetti crop of 1957.

While scenes of harvesters working in the spaghetti orchards played on the screen, the show's anchor, Richard Dimbleby, discussed how a mild winter and less infestations of the "spaghetti weevil" allowed farmers to harvest a huge crop from the Spaghetti Bushes.

Dimbleby reported, "The spaghetti harvest here in Switzerland is not, of course, carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian industry, many of you, I'm sure, will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the Po Valley. For the Swiss, however, it tends to be more of a family affair."

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