The Internet is warring over a photo of garlic bread. You will not guess why.

A war is brewing in memedom, and it could not possibly be more absurd: In the various online fan groups devoted to garlic bread, fierce arguments have broken out over … gender. The drama first kicked off when the wildly popular Facebook page Garlic Bread Memes posted an image macro that many have interpreted as transphobic. (How popular could the page possibly be, you ask? Well, more than a quarter-million people currently subscribe to it.)

The meme depicted two pieces of garlic bread with the caption “if I had a slice of garlic bread for every existing gender.” The implication, many readers assumed, is that the page’s administrators rejected gender identities beside male and female. And that promptly ignited hundreds of outraged posts in the comments, as well as on Reddit and Instagram, where the meme is similarly well-followed. Critics were aghast that a slice of bread would take such a position. “I am surprised by the scale of the reaction,” said the Garlic Bread Memes’ main administrator, who identified himself as an 18-year-old Israeli high-schooler named Boaz. “But [I’m not surprised] about the reaction itself.”