The Shocking Costco Pizza Trick We Wish We’d Known About Sooner

Why do we love Costco? Let us count the ways. Who among us can resist the extra-wide aisles, oversized grocery carts and the internet-famous food court and bakery? Sure there are sometimes lines, but your membership is worth it when you can snag a fan-favorite release before it sells out.

Another thing we love about Costco are the Costco fans. This ardent group of individuals are experts in all things Costco and are constantly coming up with food court menu hacks, checking all the new drops to find the next must-buy item and the first to know about a rumored food court menu change.

True Costco fans also know all about how to pack and store the bulk buys that they pick up at Costco, including the fan-favorite food court pizza. It's a big pie, so it's possible you might not get through it all and that giant box might not fit in the fridge. But don't worry, the internet has a hack for that.

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What's the Costco Pizza Storage Hack?

We’ve all heard the term “life hack” before, but did you ever expect those words to be mentioned in reference to a Costco pizza? The internet has been going wild over a video shared on Instagram by @travelgirl_co in which she shows viewers how to fit an entire Costco pizza into a 1-gallon Ziploc bag. The trick was also posted on Reddit, where more than 550 people had left comments.

We love a good idea as much as the next person, and this video has since garnered nearly 200,000 likes in just a week's time. But it’s the jokes in the comment section that truly had us rolling on the floor with laughter rather than jumping at the opportunity to try the hack out for ourselves.

“I hike for miles every week,” one commenter wrote, “I don’t understand why I’m not losing weight - *takes Ziplock pizza out of bag*.” Another viewer chimed in to add to the joke, “Life hack: You can blend 4 Costco pizzas and it will fit perfectly inside a Stanley cup.”

Among claims of utilizing the viral technique to sneak an entire pizza into a movie theater and jokes of trading a “mint 2017 Denver Costco Pizza” for a “2015 or earlier Costco Pizza from the Great Lakes area,” there was actually one commenter who had some solid advice for someone looking to try the trick out for themselves.

“Put parchment paper in between each fold so it doesn't all mush/stick together.” When everybody's a comedian it's refreshing to hear a take from someone looking to make things easier.

Sure, stuffing an entire large pizza into a Ziploc bag seems like a lot of work and you might not need to use that skill very often, but you never know. And if ever the day comes when Costco pizzas are being collected and resold online for an insane markup, you now know the best way to preserve a good pie.

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