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Cory Doctorow at 12:03 pm Mon, Apr 23, 2012

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I can't figure out if this pizza sweatshirt is a shoop or an article of commerce. If you must wear a pizza garment, Pizza Shirt sells shirts that look like pizza. Veggie, pepperoni, long sleeved, short sleeved. Made in the USA.

pizza shirt . net (via Crazy Abalone)

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  • seyo

    It’s a shoop. I can tell from some of the pepperonis.

    • Glen Able

       Good call.  And this looks suspiciously like the source image:
      http://barbaracartategui.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/pizza-pepperoni.jpg?w=640&h=626

  • Rich Keller

    If you order one from Europe, do they embroider and egg onto it?

    • twianto

      Cause Europeans have cojones?

  • jaypee

    It would be better if every single pepperoni were graced by a spiced, glistening nipple.

    • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

      I was just thinking that!

  • Steve Lord

    Is that the officially licensed Spaceballs: The Movie Pizza the Hutt costume sweatshirt?

  • http://soundcloud.com/pocketsquare grumble-bum

    Yeah, although printing technologies have come a long way it does seem unlikely that all those pepperonis would line up so perfectly.  In any case, this picture simultaneously made me feel VERY HUNGRY & VERY GROSS.

    I remember watching Spaceballs & thinking, “Damn, it would be so awesome to be able to eat yourself when necessary… Wait, no it wouldn’t.”

  • Glen Able

    This might just be a poor quality English cuisine thing, but is proper pepperoni supposed to taste like it’s made out of farts and plastic?

  • http://gspirits.com/ Zod

    but the real question is….doe it *SMELL* like a pizza?

  • http://ok-cleek.com/blogs cleek

    besides being an obvious photoshop job, that thing makes me want to grab a roll of paper towels and start dabbing.

  • beforewepost

    Pizza sweatshirt? 

    Wouldn’t you rather have the whole sweatshirt?

  • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

    I can’t see any practical benefits to wearing this, other than, perhaps, driving stoners to apoplexy.

    • IronEdithKidd

      Oh, I can see a practical application.  This is the perfect camouflage to hide  poor pizza eating skills.

      • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

        I can see that, but it would be a little like wearing a shirt with a beer/vomit stain design, in order to preemptively disguise the vicissitudes of the drinking life.

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    It’s probably real. I don’t think pizza mapping capability will be possible until CS6 comes out later this month.

  • http://thebeatdown.disqus.com Franklin

    I would probably consider a plus sized lady more attractive if she was wearing this

  • mobuco

    i thought the pizza sweatshirt i saw a few weeks back at the link below was the same, but they are different. how are there more than one of these?

    http://www.happyplace.com/14757/10-must-have-items-for-basing-your-entire-wardrobe-on-pizza

    • saint_al

       Pizza link is fierce. Sensing a possible fashion trend here.

  • yri

    Um, ewwwww….

  • Eric Z Goodnight

    This could be printed with a process called sublimation, which is a sort of iron-on four color process print. However, it wouldn’t look *quite* that good, and the fact that the sleeve is lined up with the chest (look at the folded sleeve) means that it’s more or less just photoshopped.

    Doesn’t mean that somebody doesn’t hope to produce it.

  • Preston Sturges

    Needs grease stains….

  • Shibi_SF

    Pizza sweatshirt?!?!  I can’t wait to see the pants-part of this ensemble.

    • sockdoll

      Samurai Pizza Pants!

      Oh, sorry… I guess the name of that show was Samurai Pizza Cats.

  • Hanglyman

    The sleeve’s pepperonis wouldn’t line up with the front like that if it weren’t shopped, and the inside of it probably wouldn’t be printed at all.

  • http://twitter.com/MadelineAshby Madeline Ashby

    Ah, the sweatshirt for everyone who wants to look as though they’ve been horribly but symmetrically burned.

  • Troy Nelson

    Let me guess the wearer of this sweater was the first one passed out on the floor ?

  • Teller

    Guaranteed to attract the pepperazzi. 

  • rtresco

    Old commentors are old – pizza sweatshirt is where it’s at!

  • penguinchris

    Did nobody click the link? It says:

    Q: ARE THESE REAL?
    A: YES!

    BUT: if you scroll all the way to the bottom, it also says:

    DONT [sic] BE FOOLED BY FAKES & SWEATERS OUR PIZZA SHIRTS ARE 100% REAL

    …and has this pizza sweatshirt ‘shoop crossed out. The real one is a t-shirt and the printing looks quite good. I’ve seen things printed like this in person and while it’d be obviously not real pizza, it’d be enough to fool someone from a distance (so far as you can fool someone into believing you’re wearing pizza fashioned as a t-shirt).