Fill in the Blanks Time linkersOnline version Navigate B1+ Coursebook Unit 2.3 by Florencia Campodónico 1 during by the time meanwhile as soon as during while Although it's very popular nowadays , the 1950s pasta was an unusual meal in the UK . Not many British people had been to Italy , and very few people knew how pasta was made . So , for April Fool's Day in 1957 , the BBC news programme Panorama decided to make a story about spaghetti growing on trees . the programme , viewers were told that the harvest that year was particularly good because of the weather . And the presenter explained how spaghetti was grown , there was a film of workers in the background cutting the spaghetti from the trees . the programme had been broadcast , the BBC started receiving phone calls from people who wanted to grow their own spaghetti . , the BBC continued the joke by instructing anyone who wanted to grow a spaghetti tree to 'place a piece of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce . ' the story was revealed to be an April Fool's Day joke , hundreds of people had contacted the BBC .
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