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Naples Travel: Mob Now Running the Baked Goods Racket Too

The second best thing about a trip to Naples is that you can spend all day gorging on sweets like sfogliatelle and zeppole. (The best thing, of course, is eating pizza.) But it turns out choking down pastries might be even worse for us than we previously thought!

Now that the mob is into the racket, your baked goods aren't so good says The Guardian:

Open 24 hours a day, the street sellers are drawing shoppers with cheap, crusty bread fresh from wood-burning ovens, the way Neapolitans like it. But police say Naples' new breed of bakers are slowly poisoning their customers by burning old varnished wood, nut shells covered in pesticides and even planks pulled from exhumed coffins.

"Whoever buys this bread is eating dioxins and carcinogenic substances and putting their health at serious risk," said Francesco Borrelli, assessor for agriculture for the province of Naples.

Sounds even worse for your health than walking through garbage-filled streets!

Related Stories:
· Mafia's Car-Boot Bread is "Poisoning" Naples [Guardian, via]
· Naples Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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