In 1957 people in England thought spaghetti grew on trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

Nineteen fifty-fucking-seven

hundreds phoned in the following day to question the authenticity of the story or ask for more information about spaghetti cultivation and how they could grow their own spaghetti trees; the BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

Lmfao

Cute.

You could harvest the spaghetti by sticking a pitchfork into the tree and spinning it to wrap the spaghetti leaves around it.

Spagghetti doesnt grow on
trees?

Time to harvest my spaghetti https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/79a0e995.jpg

Silly, everyone knows that spaghetti is pooped out by Linguini Cows

They also believed, in 1980, that dinosaurs were being genetically engineered in the English countryside:

https://youtu.be/66nHyNnJpOk

https://reprobatepress.com/2022/04/01/jurassic-mansion-the-bbcs-maddest-april-fool-spoof/

And in 1992, that a poltergeist had possessed a famous TV presenter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch

(That one was very controversial, and may have influenced a suicide).

The fact that people in those days trusted the BBC 100% made them easy targets.