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And Finally...Dying for a good pizza

Posted At : 20 May 2010 12:47

It’s true that everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment – costs are being cut left right and centre and new money-saving initiatives are being investigated. Let’s hope, however, that times never get this bad for our UK restaurants…

Italian prosecutors believe that pizza in the southern city of Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up in the local cemetery!

Traditionally, pizza should be cooked in a stone oven with an oak-wood fire, which can understandably be expensive to fuel.

Investigators are setting their sights on the thousands of small, lower-end pizza shops and bakeries in the city, and suspect a gang may have set up a market for coffin wood.

Andrea Santoro, president of Naples' cemetery commission, has little doubt about gangs digging up coffins, stating, "It's no wonder these things are happening given the state of the cemeteries ... There are graves uncovered, thefts and vandalism."

No one has yet been arrested, and its unlikely any gang members will come forward to talk…the fact is, those involved will probably take their secrets to the grave…!