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THE GREAT PIZZA FUNERAL

FIFTY YEARS AGO this March, dozens of people gathered in Ossineke, Michigan, for one of the strangest funerals in American history. They were there to witness the burial of nearly 30,000 frozen pizzas that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had deemed inedible. The pizzas actually were just fine.

At the center of the “Great Pizza Funeral” was Mario Fabbrini, an Italian immigrant who founded

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