THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE APRIL 2, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. I do love a good prank. For six months, for example, I snuck increasingly improbable produce into my editor’s desktop fruit bowl, culminating in a coconut with a sizable branch still attached. But during my first year at Atlas Obscura, our editor-in-chief forbade anything like a fake article, or even fake tweets, for April 1. I’ll admit, I sulked about it. I had grand aspirations: doctoring the homepage to…
