In the early 70's, I think it was Ragu that ran TV commercials where workers were picking cooked spaghetti noodles off of trees, on the spaghetti farm. My dad told me this was really where spaghetti came from -- it was harvested from trees. I believed this for quite some time.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- I used to think it was illegal to eat spaghetti if you were not Italian— Anthony
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- As a child, my twin sister and I used to pronounce `Spaghetti' as `Mastaghetti'. Sounds a bit rude, no? Anon