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AviSpag To Hit Store Shelves This Month
Apparently this year, there is a bumper harvest, with eager factories waiting to package the raw spaghetti for export to other countries.
The spaghetti tree was first discovered by botanist Avi Ganef, who was at first unsure of his discovery:
The spaghetti tree grows in the lush valleys beside Lake Lugano in Switzerland, as broadcast by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama.
He told interviewer Guy Carney:
"I did a double-take at the time, thinking that I had just been hiking too long in the sun. I even thought that the long "stringy things" might have been some kind of indigenous vine to the tree - but that wasn't what it was after all!"
With the luck of the Irish, Avi also discovered that the trees needed each other to propogate and carefully tended the trees until (over the years,) he had produced a small orchard.
Today Avi no longer owns the orchard but he feels satisfied knowing that one of the brands of spaghetti had been named after him by the pasta company who bought his orchard, making the young man a millionaire.
Avi was interviewed on the British show, Panorama on BBC, where he explained his methods and how he managed to create a bumper crop each harvest.
The brand of spaghetti to look for in the aisles is Bertolli. While the company was originally Italian, it does boast spaghettis from all over the world, but none so special as that which is now known as "AviSpag."
You should be able to find it on the shelves - in the imported food section of your local supermarket.
~ Swan
(I have a video converting at the moment - so please stop back to watch it.)
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April 1, 2008 at 11:19 am by Swan, 278 views, 4 comments




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at 11:37 on April 1st, 2008
Avispag has been available here in the UK for sometime now.
at 11:43 on April 1st, 2008
Hello Vinny,
Have you had it? Does it taste any different to the man-made spaghetti that consumers are used to? I'm a big pasta lover, so I am somewhat curious.
~ Swan
at 11:49 on April 1st, 2008
Hi Swan
I found it a bit stringy and prefer the manmade stuff.
at 13:26 on April 1st, 2008
I apologise for the video - it's very unclear even though I've tried to convert it a few different ways. Still you can see the trees bearing rich loads of avispaghetti and the women that harvest the pasta.
~ Swan