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A group of customers is organizing to protest the flimsy pizza boxes at the Kahului Costco ~ which apparently have been launched airborne with stronger trade winds on Maui.
“I’m seriously still in shock. I just left Costco with my $9.95 pizza, and a breeze that was light even by Maui standards yanked the flimsy box straight out of my hands,” said Delilah Ohumu of Wailuku Heights. “It landed perfectly face-up on a sidewalk outside the parking lot.”
A brief investigation by Maui Insight revealed flying pizzas at a rate of about two per hour at the Costco on Haleakala Highway not far from the airport.
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A large pizza (18-inch) at the Kahului Costco food court usually costs $9.95 for cheese or pepperoni. They have proved a popular budget item on Maui, attractive for both locals and visitors alike.
“The big Costco pizzas are good wherever you get them, which we knew coming in to OGG,” said Karen Crabapple of Seattle, Wash. “What we didn’t know, because we don’t have trade winds where we’re from, is how the boxes are so aerodynamic.”
In response, Crabapple and Ohumu have teamed to form the Thicker Costco Pizza Boxes Association (TCPBA), a loosely organized community organization with a goal of making pizza boxes less airworthy.
“If we can get save just one pizza for an unsuspecting customer, it will be worth it,” Crabapple said. “Who knows, maybe it will take off and spread to other pizza makers. Food trucks, even. Plate lunch boxes also flimsy sometimes.”
As of press time the TCPBA was in planning for its first community awareness event, a No Flimsy Pizza Boxes rally in front of the Queen Kaahumanu Center in May.
“If you drive by, honk your horn to save the pizzas!” Ohumu said.
