--- title: 'All-Crust' Pizza Photo Goes Viral, Gets Slammed description: Forget about debating which toppings belong on pizza. If pizza enthusiasts don't act now, all-crust pizzas may just become the latest trend. canonical: https://time.com/5627847/all-crust-pizza/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-16T22:48:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:33.489Z og:title: This Photo of an 'All-Crust' Pizza Has Made a Lot of People Very Saucy og:description: "That's just a closed bread stick" og:url: https://time.com/5627847/all-crust-pizza/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c2431a3f9f3db67/698a001086f68e5a586ed3bf/gettyimages-679590138-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2121 og:image:height: 1193 og:image:alt: Pizza with melting mozzarella og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Photo of an 'All-Crust' Pizza Has Made a Lot of People Very Saucy twitter:description: "That's just a closed bread stick" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c2431a3f9f3db67/698a001086f68e5a586ed3bf/gettyimages-679590138-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Photo of an 'All-Crust' Pizza Has Made a Lot of People Very Saucy > Sponsored content. 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After New York pizzeria Cuts & Slices shared a [photo on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz%5FEj84gr3h/) of the special request “crust only” pizza they made for rapper Jadakiss on Tuesday, the controversial shot began to go viral almost immediately. “I had to see Jadakiss’ all-crust pizza so now you do too,” Twitter user Esquvidu wrote alongside the post. > [](https://twitter.com/broazay/status/1151224295441481728) Mere hours later, all-crust opponents were flooding social media with their saucy takes on the unconventional order. Some detractors simply couldn’t get over the idea of ordering a pizza-less pizza. “I mean it’s one thing to eat the crust FIRST, but order a pizza with the pizza part cut out is … idk man I’ve never seen anything like this before,” tweeted one user. “Cursed image,” the Twitter account for the _Desus & Mero_ show added. > [](https://twitter.com/gxngstawifey/status/1151253225439412229) > [](https://twitter.com/SHODesusAndMero/status/1151226241506320386) Others couldn’t help but point out that Jadakiss could have simply ordered breadsticks instead. Responses ranged from “This man never heard of breadsticks??” to “That’s just a closed bread stick” to “just get a baguette bro.” > [](https://twitter.com/JCAirplane/status/1151228397541978112) > [](https://twitter.com/nurirah0311/status/1151239797161132032) > [](https://twitter.com/havethehabit/status/1151226181745700865) Could the fight against all-crust pizza be the unifying issue of the internet age? 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