This pizza chain is giving away a custom skateboard with a real pie inside
Have you ever wanted to do a kickflip on a pizza? Well, weird flex, but now you can.
"Anti-establishment establishment" &pizza wants everyone to know that they're not a regular pizza chain, they're a cool pizza chain. Their Instagram frequently dunks on Papa Johns and Domino's. You can forgo Siri and text their "Pizza Plug," a live human who will answer all your cheesiest, burning, pizza-related inquiries (although they'll answer pretty much anything.) They refer to their brand as the "tribe" and employees as "tribe members."
It's only the next logical step for this trendy company. Besides, &pizza's house-made pies look like doughy little skateboard decks anyways, so, why not just put them in a skateboard?
Dubbed the Pizza Deck, MSCHF Internet Studios teamed up with &pizza create a custom skateboard made of resin cast pizza. Yes, that's correct. A real, edible pizza is inside there. Well, it was edible at one point, at least.
"We looked at &pizza’s shape and immediately thought: ‘hey, that looks like a skateboard.’ So we made it one,” creator Kevin Wiesner said in a press release.
According to Wiesner it took a full month to build, and they went through about a dozen pizzas to test the process of drying, preserving, and casting it. "It got pretty gross sometimes. In the end it came out pretty well!"
It may be a pretty "chonky boi" as they describe it, but "it lets you ride around on a preserved pizza as a skateboard, so what else do you really want?"
Much like the mosquito encased in ancient amber in Jurassic Park, there's hidden beauty in the deck, just waiting to be freed. I'm sorry, but my brain just looks at the board like a glass pizza case, thinking "EMERGENCY: BREAK IN CASE OF HUNGER. OR BOREDOM. OR YOU JUST REALLY WANT A PIZZA."
But if you really want to crack open a cold pizza with the boys, or use this skateboard for it's intended purpose, skating, unfortunately they're not for sale. This crazy board can only be won by one lucky pizza-lover from a giveaway on their official Instagram.
Anything for the love of pizza.
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Sage is the newest Culture writer on the block at Mashable NYC. They recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and have previously worked for The Dr. Oz Show, NorthSouth Productions, and on Netflix's 'The OA Part II'. Off the clock, they can be found testing out cupcake recipes, collecting dolls, and watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for the millionth time.
