Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI&feature=player_embedded#lq-lq2-hq)
Thank-you so much, for posting this, it has brought back so many wonderful
childhood memories. I often wondered if they grew pasta, over seas, differently
than the way that Mama had taught me when I was a little girl. She in fact did
do it pretty much the same way. Of course a completely different process was
used in growing the rotellini and pasta shells. My favorite time of the year was
when the macaroni was in bloom. That sweet scent haunts me even now causing
me to pine for my girlhood *sigh*. I wish we had one of those movie cameras
back then. With the modern mass production techniques that are so
prevalent in the pasta farming industry today, we have lost one
more of the simple pleasures of self sufficiency. Alas...
Ah yes, free range pasta...
Wild spaghetti, tortellini bush, and digging up lasagna searched out with a specially trained lasagna schnauzer...
Such memories can never be returned. I do so miss the old neighborhood.
-Sandy
Oh now, your just being silly or are you trying to mock me?
They never used Schnauzers to root out lasagna. It is well known
that reptiles, especially iguanas were used almost exclusively, in the "hunt".
"Vancouver Greenies" bred, trained and imported from British Columbia, proved
to be the finest "Lasagna Lizards". The neighbor lady a mile or so up the road
in rural Conneticut where I was raised had one of the nasty little creatures. It
had a surly temperment but if you set it on a scent in a wild rye field by
Godess you had you're six bushel limit in less than three hours.
I still couldn't stand to even look at the thing, though.
Nothing better than a Farfalle roundup. Running thru a field of durum semolina, with net in hand. The baying of the hounds echoing over the valley. The warm sunshine against your face, the scent of olive oil in the air.
Janet
ah yes..fresh grown manicotti a memory worth hanging onto.
What did y'all use the net for? :icon_blink:
Farfalle is Italian for butterfly. Get it. ;)
Janet
Y'all need to stop, I'm gonna be overcome with nostalgia.
Oh what I'd give to spend the day down on the banks of
the "Athol River" cuttin' stalks of "Wild Manicotti" with my
brothers and sister, just one more time. I know how true
it is, "You can never go home again" *sigh*
Being an Iowa girl, I don't really know anything about pasta harvesting. They only did that in the south-east corner of the state near Keokuk. Instead I remember when I was a teenager, the farmers would hire us girls to go out in the fields and de-tail the corn-dog plants.
Corn-dogs really need to be de-tailed, because if you don't remove the "puppydog tails," as they're called, the plants can become aggressive. There's nothing worse than a corn-dog field that's gone to wild horn-dogs.
We would climb on a wagon and ride around the field pulling the puppydog tails off the plants and throwing them into the middle of the wagon. When we got back to the farmyard, us girls would divide up the tails because they were quite valuable. Most of the ones we got were either pink or powder blue, but there were other colors, and those were worth more. If there were any yellow, green, or white ones, they went to the lead girl as a reward.
We would take the tails and sew them into boas, fans, and costumes to sell to exotic dancers. Iowa puppydog tail outfits became quite famous among exotic dancers. Any dancer who came to Iowa to get her outfits could really get some tail.
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It was also run as a fantastic April 1 joke on Panorama, a very serious political show in the UK. The reporter, Ahh his name (?), kept a very serious expression throughout went through the economic problems, Great
Thank You
Cindy
Quote from: CindyJames on August 02, 2009, 04:03:57 AM
It was also run as a fantastic April 1 joke on Panorama, a very serious political show in the UK. The reporter, Ahh his name (?), kept a very serious expression throughout went through the economic problems, Great
Thank You
Cindy
Here is the wiki on it. (I *do* so love the internet!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree)
The news reader was Richard Dimbleby.
-Sandy