Can you imagine a time when pasta was not part of the English menu?
No spag bol to fill us – no spaghetti in tomato sauce to tempt us – and certainly no spaghetti hoops.
In 1957 the majority of the country had no idea what pasta was – other than it was ‘foreign’.
So this news from Panorama about a bumper Spaghetti harvest had everyone fooled.
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Catch the BBC accent!
