{"id":728997,"date":"2010-05-18T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-18-the-birthplace-of-pizza-may-be-cooking-its-pies-with-coffins\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:37:34","slug":"the-birthplace-of-pizza-may-be-cooking-its-pies-with-coffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728997","title":{"rendered":"The birthplace of pizza may be cooking its pies with coffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pie4dan\/\"><\/a>pie4dan via Flickr Creative Commons<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When the truth hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that&#8217;s a-mor-e.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When the pizza was cooked on an old coffin&#8217;s roof, that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/generic-pop-culture-reference\/3880941143\/\">a-pall-ing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;ve gone to heaven, you still might be burning after you&#8217;re gone &#8230; that is, if you were buried in Naples, Italy. As it turns out, the birthplace of pizza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.32bc00250df8502d22e8f206780b432f.131&amp;show_article=1\">may be stoking its wood-fired ovens with wood from, er, used caskets<\/a>. &#8220;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,&#8221; Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale reported.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least they&#8217;re reusing!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like what you see? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/member\/email-subscriptions\/\">Sign up to receive The Grist List, our email roundup of pun-usual green news<\/a> just like this, sent out every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-17-hardcore-hip-hop-for-vegans\/\">Hardcore hip-hop for vegans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-14-wasteful-bandit-gets-wiped-out-by-police\/\">Wasteful bandit gets wiped out by police<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-13-the-kind-of-traffic-we-wouldnt-mind-more-of\/\">The kind of traffic we wouldn&#8217;t mind more of<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ebd40ca463779cab08caa8f75a570699&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ebd40ca463779cab08caa8f75a570699&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun pie4dan via Flickr Creative Commons When the truth hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that&#8217;s a-mor-e. When the pizza was cooked on an old coffin&#8217;s roof, that&#8217;s &#8230; a-pall-ing. Even if you&#8217;ve gone to heaven, you still might be burning after you&#8217;re gone &#8230; that is, if you were buried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33E1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830617,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728997\/revisions\/830617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}