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"   Watch out for co-workers suspending staplers in Jell-O and offering you cans of fake snakes masquerading as cashews \u2014 it&amp;#039;s April Fools&amp;#039; Day! Regard everything with a suspicious eye, including your food blogs, suppliers, and corporations. We&amp;#039;re not being paranoid; we&amp;#039;re just learning from history. In order to stay alert, we&amp;#039;ve rounded up some of the best food pranks throughout history. 1878 - New York Graphic capitalized on Thomas Edison&amp;#039;s reputation for brilliance by announcing that he invented a machine that could transform soil into cereal and turn water into wine. Newspapers across the country picked the story up unquestionably. 1900 - While visiting friends in Binghamptom, Edith Walrach was given an egg at breakfast that had been doctored by a practical jokester (her fianc\u00E9). When she broke into the egg, a mouse, which had been inserted into the egg and then sealed in with plaster of Paris, leapt out. Before you head out on a mouse hunt to prank some one in your own life, know that the shock of the mouse caused her to scream, faint, and spend the rest of the day in a critical state. 1957 - In what is possibly the most famed and ambitious food prank of all time, the BBC produced a &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; piece covering the &amp;quot;Annual Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.&amp;quot; The clip showed Swiss farmers harvesting strands of spaghetti from trees. The crop that year, the BBC reported, was particularly bountiful due to a mild winter and the &amp;quot;virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.&amp;quot; At the time pasta was not an every day food item for the British and came in cans so many citizens believed it to be true, calling into the BBC the next day to ask about how they could grow their own spaghetti. More from Delish: Three April Fools&amp;#039; Day Desserts 1996 - Taco Bell announced that it had embraced its logo to the point of purchasing the Liberty Bell and were going to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. People were outraged until the prank was revealed a few hours later. 1998 - Burger King took out an ad in USA Today touting its new specialty left-handed burgers. These burgers were entirely the same as the usual burgers, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees so that they would spill out of the right side. On behalf of our left-handed friends and family, we&amp;#039;re a little disappointed this wasn&amp;#039;t later developed into a reality. 2002 - Tesco, a UK grocery chain, published an ad saying that it would sell a genetically-modified carrot that would greatly ease the lives of its shoppers. It was a carrot that whistled when it was done, much like a tea kettle, due to naturally perforated skin. 2008 - The great meatwater hoax of 2008 still has some people questioning whether or not this line of jerky or other meaty-flavored water exists. The product, which was a lot like Vitamin Water just with meat instead of fruit flavoring, was &amp;quot;released&amp;quot; on the internet. The line was marketed as &amp;quot;High Efficiency Survival Beverages.&amp;quot; Sadly for the super carnivorous among us, it was revealed to be a hoax indeed, staged by Till Krautkramer, a New York designer and photographer. More from Delish: April&amp;#039;s Fools 2009 - Don&amp;#039;t you hate it when you want both a banana and a pineapple but you don&amp;#039;t want to bother with prepping two fruits? Well if this prank was real, you would be in luck. The British supermarket chain Waitrose placed ads in newspapers touting the sale of a new fruit: the pinana. It was a banana-pineapple hybrid. It was to be the liger of fruits. Unfortunately for the pina colada enthusiasts, such a fruit does not exist....yet. 2009 - Whole Foods Market is not without a sense of humor. It released a new product on its website: organic air, which came in original, sea breeze, mountain wine, and salt &amp;amp;amp; vinegar. The ad might have been believable if Whole Foods hadn&amp;#039;t also announced a new outpost in Antartica and the offer of a free spider with every 50 pounds of bananas purchased. 2010 - Starbucks announced new sizes: the 128-ounce Plenta and the 2-ounce Micra. The joke would have remained funny if Starbucks hadn&amp;#039;t later released the not-quite-so-large-but-still-very-big Trenta. We&amp;#039;re still waiting for Starbucks to seriously release a very small size \u2014 perhaps the size of a sip. Out suggestion for a name: the Blip. 2011 - KFC put out an ad for the &amp;quot;Sans Fillet Burger.&amp;quot; It was described as &amp;quot;a warm sesame bun lovingly tucked inside two other warm seasme seed buns.&amp;quot; The &amp;quot;burger&amp;quot; also &amp;quot;featured an even more secret sauce from The Colonel with no herbs and no spices.&amp;quot; The best part of this made up sandwich was the slogan. KFC called it, &amp;quot;for those who prefer their chicken burgers a little less chickeny.&amp;quot; 2011 - Big-name brands aren&amp;#039;t the only ones that like to get in on the April Fools&amp;#039; day action. Celebrity Chef Jos\u00E9 Andre\u00E9 tweeted that his wife along with the wives of Eric Ripert, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Colicchio, and Conan O&amp;#039;Brien (maybe the talk show host has some secret culinary chops) were all signed up for a new reality show called Desperate Chefs&amp;#039; Wives. The &amp;quot;show&amp;quot; was apparently going to air on NBC. 2012 - Chips Ahoy pranked its Facebook fans last year with an image of a new kind of cookie. The post stated, &amp;quot;Hey Fans! We&amp;#039;ve heard your complaints that our cookies have too much chocolate and we&amp;#039;re here to help. Introducing the new and improved Chip Ahoy! See if you can find the one perfect chocolate chip in every cookie!&amp;quot; An image showed a box of &amp;quot;Chip Ahoy!&amp;quot; featuring a cookie with one lonely chip smack dab in the middle of the treat. 2012 - Remember Marilyn Hagerty? The 87-year-old writer for the Grand Forks Herald was first slammed and then later praised for her restaurant review of a local Olive Garden. In 2012, The Daily Meal announced that Hagerty would replace Pete Wells as restaurant reviewer for the New York Times. The &amp;quot;big change&amp;quot; had been made to, &amp;quot;bring a fresh voice and a critical eye refined by many decades of eating and writing about real food in the heartland.&amp;quot; Hear about any food pranks today? Let us know! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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