Pizza Anyone? Try our "Dead Wood Baked"

**Alundil** · 05-17-10, 02:46 PM

Not good

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

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).

**moving-target** · 05-17-10, 03:31 PM

is their a lack of trees in italy ? thats just fucked

**Kraker Jak** · 05-18-10, 03:52 PM

its fucked to rob a grave...

But would make no difference to cook the pizza with coffin wood...as far as taste

**Graverunner** · 05-18-10, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kraker Jak

its fucked to rob a grave...

I wholeheartedly agree. In all seriousness that's messed up, kind of scary. I mean I wouldn't want my food near.....that... Even if you want to steal wood there still has to be an easier way that doesn't involve dead people.

**Toker** · 05-18-10, 03:59 PM

If true and normal wood will now be used, will it still be authentic Naples Pizza?

**sickwookie** · 05-19-10, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Toker

If true and normal wood will now be used, will it still be authentic Naples Pizza?

I like the way you think. :9

**Guyver** · 05-19-10, 05:21 AM

Gross.

**~~hawgballs~~** · 05-19-10, 07:24 AM

I wouldn't write off the pizza so quickly. I mean hundreds, if not thousands, of people from Naples gave their heart(and then some) in making those pizzas.

**K0nTANK3Rous** · 05-19-10, 08:07 AM

maybe i'm morbid...but I don't see the issue.

I truly respect the dead but I've already told my wife, if I get buried in some wooden box in the ground...prepare for a haunting, that's such a waste of earth, real estate, etc. I'm dead...having me buried in the ground isn't going to bring me back or anything...toast me up in the oven, drink some cocktails, make a nice hummus with my ashes and party down!

But since they really are already buried, robbing graves is not cool, not cool at all.