Eggplant Parm or Justice Served?

Not to be mistaken for Tuesday's With Morrie, it's Wacky Wednesday With Naybob...

A Naybob of culinary delights brings this mouth watering news to our attention...

Italian man cleared of aubergine theft after nine-year legal battle. 

The man, then 49, had the aubergine in his bucket when police caught him trying to escape through a privately owned field near Lecce, in the southern region of Puglia, in 2009.  

While being taken away, he pleaded with the police that he had tried to steal it because he was unemployed and desperate to feed his child.  The courts showed no mercy.... 

The mans legal counsel took the case to the court of cassation in Rome, Italy’s highest appeals court, where the defendant was acquitted nearly a decade after he was arrested. 

The court criticised the lower courts in Lecce for not taking into account the extreme weakness of the prosecution’s case given the man’s financial situation. 

The court also lamented the amount of public money spent on the case, with €7,000-€8,000 going towards legal fees as the man was too poor to pay for his own defence. - The Guardian

I don't know, but I'll tell ya... A decade and $10K of public expense for a purloined eggplant? Somehow we feel the menu title for this piece of news could be...

Baba Ghanoush Alla Polizia Pugliese (of the Puglia Police)

Confit Tres Cher A Corte Di Cassazione (expensive confit at the Court of Cassation)

İmam Bayıldı Idiotica 

(The name İmam Bayildi supposedly derives from a tale of a Turkish imam, who swooned with pleasure at the flavour when presented with this eggplant dish by his wife, although other more humorous accounts suggest that he fainted upon hearing the cost of the ingredients or the amount of oil used to cook the dish.)

Melanzane Rollatini Manca Buon Senso (eggplant roll lacking common sense)

and finally....

Caponata Costoso??? (expensive eggplant???)

Apropos and deserving of this, indeed....