Pizza in Naples may be baked using coffin wood
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Pizza in Naples may be baked using coffin wood
Posted: 18 May 2010 0850 hrsROME : 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.
Tradition has it that queen Margherita of Savoy asked one of Naples' famed pizzaioli to come up with a dish for the people.
The result, which provides the basis for most pizzas enjoyed around the world, represented the colours of recently unified Italy: green basil, white mozzarella and red tomatoes.
Italy's estimated 25,000 pizzerias employ around 150,000 people and account for a turnover of 5.3 billion euros (6.5 billion dollars).
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As long as they are not burnt together with dead bodies, i still can eat..
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Originally posted by TTFU:
As long as they are not burnt together with dead bodies, i still can eat..
yucks! must have some nostaglic feeling (filling).
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Ok lar, still safer than a 4 drumstick chicken.
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no wonder their pizza always taste better.... now we know their secret lo...
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
no wonder their pizza always taste better.... now we know their secret lo...
haha. Comercial secret, dun leak out. Shhhhhh....... -
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Originally posted by ~PEPPER~:
haha. Comercial secret, dun leak out. Shhhhhh.......
haha. Comercial secret. -
Originally posted by TTFU:
As long as they are not burnt together with dead bodies, i still can eat..
With dead bodies = Food Poisioning.
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I would choose not to know how they keep their oven burning. Their reason is to save save money on wood and at the same time keep up with the quality.
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Originally posted by Operation//Overkill:
With dead bodies = Food Poisioning.
haha lol -
sauce
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Me not a fan of pizzas.
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Originally posted by lianamaster:
Me not a fan of pizzas.
me either.
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muz be coz u no hv eaten gd pizzas before.
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I like pizzas but not cooked on coffin wood. Yeesh! Taste like a dead body..
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Recycling......... ok lah..........