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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A heath scare causes a pizza panic in 1973. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3xM7uk5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:11.2

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0:14.7

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0:18.8

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0:30.1

Rest in pizza.

0:31.8

I'm Rebecca leave I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. It was business as usual in January 1973 at United Canning in Ohio until it wasn't.

0:57.0

Employees discovered some of their mushroom tins had swelled up, signaling bad news.

1:03.9

Test confirmed the presence of botulism, which can lead to severe muscle weakness, low blood

1:08.1

pressure, and potentially death.

1:10.8

The FDA promptly removed the affected products from the store shelves, but to ensure a thorough

1:15.4

recall, they contacted businesses further up the supply chain.

1:19.2

One of these businesses was Papa Fabrini's frozen pizzas.

1:22.8

When Fabrini received the call, quote, everything went dark.

1:27.0

Fabrini, an immigrant from Fyum, Italy, had built his American dream from scratch.

1:31.8

He had grown up under a fascist regime and moved to

1:34.4

Michigan after World War II. With his wife Olga, he adapted his family pizza

1:38.6

recipe for American tastes and transformed his small business into a

1:42.3

successful empire.

1:43.5

Upon hearing the news about the contaminated mushrooms,

1:46.3

Fibrini halted shipments and submitted his pizzas for testing.

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