In de Jaeger’s 2000 obituary Ian Jacob, the then-Director-General of the BBC, was quoted as having said to Leonard Miall, Head of Television Talks 1954-61,
“When I saw that item, I said to my wife, ‘I don’t think spaghetti grows on trees’, so we’d looked it up in Encyclopædia Britannica. Do you know, Miall, Encyclopædia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti.“
ref: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/6772 via Spaghetti tree hoax – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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