Pasta Time

The average person eats 5 kg pasta a year - only one nation eats up to 25 kg.

The Italians are "pasta eat world champion". However, in other parts of the world people enjoy pasta just as much.

Many claim that Marco Polo brought the noodle from Asia in 1292. The arabs cooked their first pasta dish ever in the 5th century AD. But neither has ever eaten pasta grown on trees. Trees??
Yes that's right! 
In 1957 the BBC televises a short film titled Spaghetti Picking in the Spring, illustrating country life in the countryside outside of Lugano. A very serious speaker describes the tree from which dozens of kilos of spaghetti hang. The speaker goes on to explain that thanks to the farmers' skill and expertise, acquired over generations, these trees grow spaghetti of equal length, an element which, among other things, facilitates picking. It is said that the following morning (April 2nd...) the BBC studios received numerous phone calls from people who were interested in buying the spaghetti trees and they wanted the phone numbers of the retailers....

If picked off a tree or bought in a shop. Don't we all love pasta?!