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Pizza Coronavirus, Sorbillo makes peace with the French ambassador – Italian Cuisine

Italy and France make peace on the "pizza coronavirus" issue: French ambassador Masset having lunch at Sorbillo with Luigi di Maio

After controversy unleashed by the satirical video aired on a French TV, in which in Italian pizza maker prepared a "pizza coronavirus", peace seems to have been made. All following the reaction of the famous Neapolitan pizza maker Gino Sorbillo, who had commented on the episode very harshly in a video posted on social media (watch here).

Pizza Coronavirus: at Sorbillo's lunch

After the apology of the French TV station, the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio invited theFrench ambassador in Rome, Christian Masset, to eat a repair pizza together with Sorbillo. Tensions have eased between a pizza with the colors of the Italian flag and a few mugs of beer.

Di Maio he then commented on Facebook "We are continuing to monitor theCoronavirus emergency and what we need to do is also limit the negative effects on our economy and our entrepreneurs. Yesterday a French TV broadcast a video that offended Italian pizza and our country. To respond to that shameful image, today in the company of the French ambassador in Italy, which I thank, we ate a good Neapolitan pizza together, one of the Italian excellence that the whole world envies us. Now stop the controversy, we defend our products, our qualities, our Made in Italy with all our strength. Thank you so much to Gino Sorbillo for the hospitality. "

Pizza Coronavirus: an apology from France

The video on the "pizza coronavirus" has already been deleted, as explained by a spokesman for theTV station: "Canal + apologizes to our Italian friends for the transmission of a short sequence of bad taste, especially in the current context, making a caricatural reference to Italy in a satirical program. This sequence has already been removed from all channel reruns and reproductions. "

Meanwhile, however, the Neapolitan association Noiconsumatori submitted one class action: "The attempt to dirty the image of Italy and its food excellence, which certainly do not represent a mere and simple dish but the result of Italian history, culture and traditions, cannot and must not go unnoticed" – explain the Angelo Pisani and the president of FareAmbiente Campania, Francesco Della Corte – «we expect, in addition to the compensation for damages, also that the French institutions immediately distance themselves from what happened. Nobody can question the excellence of Italian products in the world, which has always been proudly a symbol of our national identity and of high quality .

Cover photo: Facebook Luigi Di Maio

Gino Sorbillo responds to the French video on "pizza coronavirus" – Italian Cuisine

The celbere Neapolitan pizzaiolo says no to pizza coronavirus and responds to the satirical video aired on French TV: "You are very stupid." Meanwhile Naples evaluates legal actions.

Gino Sorbillo, an icon of Italian pizza, did not take the video on "coronavirus pizza"Aired on the French channel Canal Plus. In the sketch of the Groland Le Zapoi transmission, a pizza chef coughs on the pizza he is preparing, transforming it into a" Pizza Corona "(to watch the video that triggered the controversy, click here).

Pizza Coronavirus: Gino Sorbillo's answer

The Neapolitan pizzaiolo replied in a video that sees him busy preparing a pizza. «This pizza tonight I dedicate to some French people who have allowed themselves to make irony against Italian pizza by taking advantage of this state of emergency of coronavirus. "

A daisy with the colors of Italy, but also "a pizza to say no to the pizza coronavirus that some of you have made. You are very stupid.Watch the video posted by Gino Sorbillo on Facebook below.

Italy VS France

There Coldiretti defined the incident as "one stab in the back to hit the Made in Italy agri-food sector which has reached a record export value of 5 billion in France, which is the second market after Germany "and continues" it is a petty and instrumental attack to try to put in the corner the Made in Italy agri-food after that in 2019 – underlines Coldiretti has set a record of 44.6 billion on international markets where a historic challenge is underway with French competitors.

In the meantime, Naples is considering proceeding through legal channels. Flavia Sorrentino, delegate of the mayor Luigi de Magistris and head of the "Defend the city" branch, commented as follows: "Pizza, which symbolizes Neapolitan tradition and popular culture, cannot be the subject of offensive and irresponsible representations that have the only effect of weaken the territorial economy and dirty the image of a product of excellence in which Italy's culinary culture in the world is identified. It is the duty of the institutions protect the image of pizza and pizza chefs, whose art, just two years ago, was recognized by UNESCO as an intangible heritage of humanity, to prevent the work of an entire category from being jeopardized in a moment of general fear that every day with sacrifice, commitment and professionalism carries the name of Naples high in the world. Instead, I have already taken care of the municipal advocacy for the purpose of evaluating any legal action.

Coronavirus, French irony targets pizza – Italian Cuisine

Coronavirus pizza baked by Canal + by a pizza chef who coughs and the reactions of Italian politics

Coronavirus frightens, causes discussion and is the subject of dialogue, increasingly complex between countries. To throw gasoline on the fire, a short video sent by French network Canal + where you see a pizza chef churning out one Coronavirus pizza while coughing and sneezing.

Coronavirus pizza

There satirical broadcast Groland Le Zapoi so he decided to make fun of the Italian case, imagining a contagious and contagious pizza that does not spare even the pizza maker (infected and greaser). During the transmission you read the words: «This transmission is presented by pizza Corona and then «The new Italian pizza that will travel around the world: Covid-19.

The reactions to the pizza idea at Covid-19

The disdain of Italian politics he did not wait. Among the first reactions that of Giorgia Meloni which he declared with a tweet: «Disgusting“ satirical ”video aired by the famous French TV Canal + to insinuate that Made in Italy products are contaminated with coronavirus. Disdain for the authors of this anti-Italian garbage. Will the PD-M5S government have the decency to make its indignation felt? .
Emanuele Fiano, also on Twitter: "The French video that mocks the#Italy it is inadmissible. We apologize Minister #DiMaio. "
Also protest the Coldiretti, which speaks of "a stab in the back to hit the made in Italy agri-food sector that has reached the record value of exports of 5 billion in France, which is the second outlet market after Germany".

Luigi Di Maio's answer

"This is the preview of a video broadcast by a French TV that I consider to be of doubtful taste and unacceptable. I understand satire and understand everything, but making fun of Italians in this way, with the emergence of the coronavirus we are facing, is deeply disrespectful. As a foreign ministry we immediately activated our embassy in Paris.