Wo kommen eigentlich die Spaghetti her?

Spaghetti - ©Can Stock Photo Inc. / djemphotoWo kommen die leckeren Spaghetti eigentlich her?

Na ganz logisch, sie werden einmal im Jahr vom Spaghettibaum geerntet. Der Beweis ist hier ein Film in dem man den Spaghettibaum, bzw. die Ernte sehen kann.

Das ist ein Aprilscherz aus dem Jahre 1957, da hat die BBC in England diesen netten Film in der Schweiz und England gedreht, in dem  anscheinend Spaghetti geerntet werden. Ausgestrahlt wurde er natürlich am 1. April und viele Millionen Menschen haben ihn verfolgt. Der Sprecher im Film war ein sehr bekannter Nachrichtensprecher der das ganze noch glaubwürdiger machte.

Heute sind Spaghetti mit Tomatensoße -vor allem bei Kindern – wohl das beliebteste Essen. In diesen vergangenen  Zeiten waren sie jedoch sehr außergewöhnlich und eigentlich nur in Dosen mit Tomatensoße erhältlich oder ungekocht fertig verpackt. Wie sie hergestellt werden, war relativ unbekannt.

Darum haben nach der Ausstrahlung sehr viele Zuschauer bei der BBC angerufen, ob das auch wirklich so sei und manche wollten sogar wissen wie man denn selbst einen Spaghettibaum pflanzen könne.

Die offizielle Antwort am BBC Zuschauertelefon lautete: “ein Stück Spaghetti in eine Dose Tomatensoße legen und auf das Beste hoffen”.

Watching the Cenotaph

Every year on Remembrance Sunday I sit down at 11:45 to watch the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, and from year to year doing so is getting more and more difficult.

Obviously this is a ceremony that is not shown on German television.  Germany itself has its Remembrance Sunday (Volkstrauertag) a week later.  For them, the 10th of November is the day to remember the Kristallnacht of 1938 when jewish shops and synagogues were attacked throughout Germany.  The 11th of November is the start of the carnival season!

When I first arrived in Germany I was able to watch the ceremony each year on Sky News via satellite.  Indeed, in those years the English bookshop in Frankfurt even collected for the Poppy Appeal.  But when Sky switched to digital I was no longer able to receive them.

For a few years I was able to watch on “BBC World” on cable, but where I now live this is not available on Sundays.

So for many years I gave been glued to my computer screen and have watched the ceremony in a small window on the BBC News website.

But not today.  After waiting for the link to the live feed to appear, just before 12:00 I started looked for alternatives.

First I tried the BBC World Service, and was at least able to hear the audio feed.  Then at 12:03, just as the Last Post was sounding, the “live” button appeared on the BBC News website.  But alas, when I clicked on it I received the message “Sorry, this media is not available in your territory”!

I tried the BBC News International site, but there was not even a mention of Remembrance Sunday on it!

Finally, I visited the Sky News website and found what I had been looking for: a large “Live Video” graphic.  So I watched the end of the wreath-laying and the service online via Sky News.  It was a good thing that I found this feed, as at around 12:15 the BBC World Service moved on to “World Briefing”.

So thank you to Sky for broadcasting this important piece of British history over the internet, and shame on you BBC for blocking viewers outside the UK!

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