Is there a logical explanation for the hot dog/bun problem?

That is, why hot dogs come in packs of six, and hot dog buns come in packs of eight?

Because I was at the store today stocking up for tomorrow's big BBQ, and I couldn't puzzle it out. Sure, I was smart and ended up buying three of one, and four of the other. But now I've got fourteen extra hot dog buns.

What's the deal, America?

The problem was that traditionally hotdogs came in 10 packs and buns came in 8 packs, not 8 and 6! The problem has been solved because hotdog makers have mostly switched to 8 packs.

Unfortunately my wife found a brand of tasty hotdogs that come seven to a package and we were right back with the old problem. My whiz kid eleven-year-old found the solution the dilemma by insisting Mom buy eight packages of dogs and seven packages of buns - problem solved

Hotdogs last longer than buns in my experience. I had a room-mate who lived on hotdogs. He'd buy the 3 lb 30 pack of hotdogs a few packs of buns each week.

The orphan bun goes in the freezer. When we have accumulated seven buns in the freezer, we purchase the dogs sans the buns ;)

...than my dog

:crazy:

;-)

My advice to people with the problem is to suck it up and deal. Either a) learn to cope with eating an inch of dog-free bun or b) learn to throw away the inch of dog-free bun

because they bun manufacturers and the dog manufacturers can't come to some sort of Hot Dog/Hot Dog Bun uniformity of agreeance.

There is hope for world peace if we can't even get these 2 manufacturing segments to come together on a unified length

Most hot dogs I've ever seen come in packs of 10. :shrug:

But, yeah — it's to make you spend Mo' Money. :eyes:

Last week I thought I was all caught up. I had two buns and no dogs, and I bought one (1) pack o' dogs and one (1) pack o' buns, so the math should be cool, right?

Or so I thought until I realized the dogs were an 8-pack, too. :banghead:

I bought the fancy cheese filled ones.

meat and helps make up for the longer dog length that consumers have come to expect. I remember when bun-length hotdogs were heavily advertised as though it were a big deal

hot dogs and buns by the piece instead of the package.

:D

Until after dark

Under the big, bright yellow sun"

She said, "I wanna go out on a picnic with you, honey

Under the big, bright yellow sun"

She said, "Daddy, I'm gonna take care of your hot dog

If you'll take care of my bun"



~Wet Willie, "The Macon, Georgia Greasy Hambone Blues"

Shaking like to big ol' balloons in a hurricane.

Drippin' Wet! :toast:

I can't even remember anymore.

Or '73.

I had it on 8-track. :blush:

8 pack of dogs and 8 pack buns. But when my daughter used to refuse buns I just used the extras for "deli style" sandwiches for her midweek at lunch. Roll up some ham, cheese, lettuce leafs and place some onion, pickles and tomatoes on top. The hot dog bun was the perfect size for her, compared to how big a Kaiser roll or something similar would be.

then cut up the extras in beans-n-franks.

Good hot dogs come 8 in a package.

Our friends in New England have the problem solved: their buns come 10 to the package.

Cheap-ass hot dogs are the ones about as big around as your finger that come 10 in a pack. If you drain the juice out of the pack and there's sawdust in it, you've got cheap-ass hot dogs.

Where was this $0.50/pack hot dog sale you speak of?

"After several years of research both within the Science and Philosopy and the Marketing Research (espionage) Departments, this secret has finally been unravelled. It is here published for the first time.

Divide those numbers by two -- reduce them by their lowest common factor -- and you end up with 5, 3, 4. This series corresponds with the "Perfect Right-Angled Triangle" of Pythagoras, where with these whole numbers "the sum of the squares of units measuring the legs equals the square of the hypotenuse" -- that is, 3² + 4² = 5². This ratio is a Universal Truth that has an influence on human behavior whether one is conscious of it or not (like the tides).

How does this relate to the posited question? Here is the application of the theory:

With the buns representing the hypotenuse, 5 units (packages) will supply either 30 or 40 rolls, translating in a dog-to-bun relationship, as respectively 3 or 4 hot-dog packets. This is the lowest ratio at which the two components share out equally with no remainders. It is also statistically the optimal number of franks that would be provided at a middle-American outdoor barbecue of market-researched typical size, depending on how many children are present as opposed to adults (of course the children's barbecue would utilize the 8-bun pack). Those quantities also optimize profits as to content vs. packaging costs. "




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