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Italy: "Suspended" pizza

July 29, 2013

In Naples, restaurants are returning to a very old tradition: customers get to eat pizzas another customer has paid for in advance. That makes "going out to eat" possible for people on low budgets.

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#41104275 - Pizza with Mushrooms, Salami and Chili Pepper © Barbara Dudzińska
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Italians can be very generous. They occasionally buy a coffee or pizza "sospeso", paying for two items, but consuming only one, leaving the other as an anonymous charitable donation for a poorer customer. The tradition existed sixty years ago when the young Sophia Loren baked pizza in a film, encouraging potential customers by saying they could eat now and pay in eight days. Decades later, the sopreso has returned as a sign of solidarity in the economic crisis.

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