Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Diners in Naples, Italy may be unwittingly getting a new ingredient on their traditional Mozzarella cheese and tomato pizzas. Police are investigating reports that several “lower-end” bakeries and pizza shops are using wood from coffins to fire the ancient stone ovens. Neapolitan graveyards are hunting grounds for thieves with over 5000 flower pots being stolen last year, and the Carabinieri theorize that a gang may be desecrating graves to obtain the traditional oak wood tender for pizza ovens.
“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,” says an article in Il Giornale , Milan’s daily newspaper.
“Italy’s estimated 25,000 pizzerias employ around 150,000 people and account for a turnover of 5.3 billion euros,” according to the newpaper.
Source: The Telegraph
~Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Former Federal LEO
1, January 1, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Instead of belchin’, I wonder if *coughin’* is a symptom of eating too much of this coffin’wood pizza…
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Enough cactus juice!
Bda,
Kung Fu anon nurse … let’s take her with us the next time we hit the bars! She can save us and patch us up.
Instead of belchin’, I wonder if *coughin’* is a symptom of eating too much of this coffin’wood pizza…
Muscle weighs the same as fat, a pound of rocks weighs the same as a pound of feathers. The key is muscle is more dense, approximately 25 – 33% more dense than fat. This is why it is not uncommon to shape your body and lose a pant, shirt, and dress size and not lose hardly any body weight.
“(Thank God, I’m active or I’d be big as a barn. I’m the only person on earth, I think, who gained weight while training for a marathon!)” (anon nurse)
Muscle weight?
anon nurse,
Pizzas are good for carb loading before the race!
Anonymously Yours
1, January 1, 2011 at 9:14 am
Wood is scarce….or sacred……then again there are lots of catacombs to explore…….
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lol … nice wordplay
Happy New Year! May all your pizzas be free of coffins and cadavers. Eat well.
(I’d rather have a smoothie.)
rafflaw,
“To your second point”, should have been deleted. In this new year, I resolve to comment more spontaneously instead of editing, and then having to go back an correct myself… 🙂
I grimace when I think about it. It might not be all bad, though, if this has an impact on my desire to consume mass quantities of pizza… (Thank God, I’m active or I’d be big as a barn. I’m the only person on earth, I think, who gained weight while training for a marathon!)
Former Fed,
that was hilarious! AN, I hope they are well lined. It is creepy just thinking about it!
Well, to look on the bright, New Year’s side of the ledger, consider that eating your next Italian pizza is like the thrill of finding a prize in your Cracker Jacks box–you might savor the rarefied smoke-flavored remains of a pizza of this, and a pizza that…
“I love pizzas!” -rafflaw
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To your second point, so do I, rafflaw. I saw the words “double cheese and pepperoni” and flew to this thread. 🙂
Those oak coffins are clearly well-lined for the criminals. (Who would’ve thought…) Let’s hope that they are “lined well” for the “consumers” of the pizzas.
Holy cow! I hope that this trend has stayed in Italy. I can’t imagine my pizza’s being cooked on coffin wood? Besides, what happened to the occupants of said coffins that were desecrated in order to satisfy the hunger of Italians for wood fired pizzas? It may take me awhile to eat another pizza. OK, maybe not. I love pizzas!
Wood is scarce….or sacred……then again there are lots of catacombs to explore…….