Italy has complained to Austrian authorities about a Vienna pub selling sandwiches named after Italians murdered by Sicilian mobsters.
The foreign ministry said that Italy's charge d'affaires in Vienna "intervened to sensitise" local authorities, including the city of Vienna and the economy ministry, after a menu of the Don Panino pub upset Italians in Vienna and public opinion in Italy.
Naming a sandwich for Giovanni Falcone, a prosecutor killed by a Mafia bombing in 1992 and saying on the menu Falcone was "grilled" like a sausage offended his memory and is "unacceptable," the ministry said.
Another sandwich is named after Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato, who rebelled against his mobster father in a tiny Sicilian town as a youngster, using his programme on a local radio station in the 1970s to ridicule and denounce Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian Mafia is known. In 1978, his body was found, blown up by dynamite, on rail tracks outside town. The menu describes Impastato as being "baked in a bomb attack like a chicken".
Other dishes on the menu are named after top Italian mobsters as well as one of Cosa Nostra's most famous turncoats, Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony helped convict hundreds of mobsters in Italy.
The foreign ministry said joking about people who died fighting the Mafia is offensive.