Pot Noodle pizza and Liz Truss joining Nasa were among the best April fools this year
The discovery of a medieval Scottish ferry with a roll-on, roll-off feature for carts also provided some much-needed levityThe media ecosystem may have changed since the BBC’s spaghetti harvest report in 1957 or the Guardian’s 1977 travel supplement about the island of San Serriffe, but April...
<p>The discovery of a medieval Scottish ferry with a roll-on, roll-off feature for carts also provided some much-needed levity</p><p>The media ecosystem may have changed since the BBC’s <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-68707739">spaghetti harvest report</a> in 1957 or the Guardian’s 1977 travel supplement about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/archive-educational-resource-april-2012">the island of San Serriffe</a>, but April fool stories are still with us.</p><p>Indeed, if you picked up Wednesday’s edition of the Guardian, you may have been taken in by our report that evidence had been found of coffee being consumed in England a couple of centuries before the first known examples, thanks in part to an expert called Macky Arto.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/01/pot-noodle-pizza-liz-truss-nasa-april-fools-2026">Continue reading...</a>
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