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Posted on 05/17/2010 1:56:21 PM PDT by markomalley
Italian prosecutors believe pizza in the southern city of Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up from the local cemetery, Italian daily Il Giornale reported on Monday.
"Pizza, one of the few symbols of Naples that resists... is hit by the concrete suspicion that it could be baked with wood from coffins," Il Giornale said.
Investigators in Naples are setting their sights on the thousands of small, lower-end pizza shops and bakeries that dot the city on suspicion that patrons may "use wood from caskets to keep ovens burning."
Naples' graveyard has long been hunting ground for thieves: last year, 5,000 flower pots were stolen from the cemetery.
"A gang might have set up a market for coffins sold to hard-hearted owners of bakeries and pizzerias looking to save money on wood," Il Giornale said.
Neapolitan pizza was invented between 1715 and 1725, with the world-famous Margherita variant first cooked up in 1889.
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Well the corpses don’t seem to be complaining.
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In Naples...wouldn’t surprise me.
Are the Campfire girls and Humpty-dumpty still there?
Fond drunken sailor memories of Naples.
Vito’s pizzeria/crematorium.
Boy, this pizza sure tastes good, but for some reason it has kind of a dead feel to it and I don’t know why!
Seems like an awful lot of work for not very much wood.
LOL! Touche!
Tasty.
Perhaps, but unless the place always looks like one-fourth of the area has been recently visited by a synchronized roto-tiller drill team, then it's unlikely that the coffins are being uprooted for use as kindling.
At least not enough of them to fire the local pizzeria ovens on an ongoing basis.
More definitive evidence is in order here - and it's not all that tough to catch grave-robbers if you want to.
Good idea. It's much harder tricking those zombies into the oven after they start stumbling around.
You mean the campfire girls who hung out near AFSOUTH in Bagnoli?
Humpty-Dumpty used to make extra lire posing for photos while holding up the sign of your choice. Between Solfatara and Terme Agnano, IIRC.
Summer of ‘68. Fine European shotguns and pistols sold for a pittance at the Naples R&G Club. Many decades gone, now.
Seems like it would be easier to chop down a tree than dig up a coffin.
Good one !LOL
Good thing they don’t embalm ping.
The guy who did this is dead meat.
Or rotted.
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