Naples Pizza: Coffin Wood Allegations Surface

[The Damned]

Source: The Huffington Post

An unusual ingredient could be part of the baking process for Naples pizza: coffin wood.

The claim was reported by the Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale, owned by the family of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

"Pizza, one of the few symbols of Naples that endures... is hit by the concrete suspicion that it could be baked with wood from coffins," Il Giornale said. "Not only the pizza, the bread, too, may have been cooked with the wood."

Police are currently investigating.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/naples-pizza-coffin-wood-_n_580907.html

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In a related story, Dick and Liz Cheney are moving to Naples.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Then I'm really worried about what's in Sicilian Pizza!!

[No Elephants]

3. Why?

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Just a satirical reference to how Sicilians take "no prisoners" and

if there's coffin wood in Neopolitan pizza, then imagine what's used for Sicilian pizza.

[Barack_America]

2. Damn it! I just made plans to go with friends for pizza tonight!

And I had the vision of delicious Naples pizza in my head.

Uck!

[charlesg]

4. Secret natural flavors: cadaverine, putrescine

[No Elephants]

5. Some things, I know I need to know, but I wish just didn't exist.

the effect of coffin wood on pizza is one of those things.

[JBoy]

6. "Mmm.. Awesome Pizza. Tastes just like Grandma."

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. "What do you want on YOUR Tombstone?"

[Lost4words]

14. LOL!

good one

[woodsprite]

8. It's OK though. They top the pizzas with LOTS of garlic. n/t

[Romulox]

9. It's the Sherman Hemsley of Pizza! nt

[Brother Buzz]

10. Riiiight. And the Egyptians really did burned mummies to fuel their steam trains

"Stated to me for a fact. I only tell it as I got it. I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything." - Mark Twain

[Blandocyte]

11. I like a crust with some body to it

[Yeahyeah]

13. Somebody's gonna sleep with the fishes for this.

[Crowman1979]

15. I know this story is BS because the paper is owned by the Italian Rupert Murdoch named Berlusconi.

I suggest the people of Napoli grab whatever objects they can find and just hurl them at this scumbag next time he makes a visit. And besides, isn't Berlusconi from Milan? Home to the most bland food in all of Italy?

[petronius]

16. "Pizza Napoli: It's to Die For!"

Sounds bogus to me - how much coffin wood could there actually be, and why would pizza makers go to such lengths for a 'specialty' method that they could never boast about?

[skoalyman]

17. talk about bad heart burn

:o if true