Pizza In Italy Cooked With Wood From Human Coffins?

Italian pizzerias in Naples are not going to put this wording on their menus. I doubt that customers would order pizzas that have shared space with dead bodies and coffins — if they knew.

But Naples’ favorite dish relies on smoke from hardwood-fired stoves for its renowned flavor. Neapolitan pizza is traditionally baked using a stone oven and oak-wood fire. Oak is also the favored wood for coffins.

But then, all of the pizzas and some of the bread are being baked with cut-price wood purchased from a gang of coffin thieves operating in the Italian city Naples — a notoriously lawless port.

A real suspicion hangs over pizza, one of the few remaining important symbols of the city, that it could be cooked with wood coffins,”

said Il Giomale, the daily paper which belongs to the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. “Not only the pizza, the bread, too, may have cooked with the wood,” reports the Independent (UK). President of Naple’s cemetery commission, Andrea Santoro, says: “It’s no wonder these things are happening given the state of the cemeteries.

There are uncovered graves, thefts and vandalism.” Now, there is “a daily spectacle of uncovered coffins and human remains abandoned in the streets as if they were garbage,” claims Il Giomale. The Italian investigation involves thousands of small, lower-end pizza shops and bakeries.

Source: The Telegraph