Why do hot dogs come in pkg of 10 and the buns in pkg of 8?!
Why do hot dogs come in pkg of 10 and the buns in pkg of 8?
Why????
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The meat-packing side of this is easiest to understand. Your standard-issue hot dog, a product that generations of consumers have found to be convenient, comes ten to the pound. Jumbo hot dogs come eight to the pound, and occasionally you'll see some symptom of wretched excess that comes four to the pound. If you've got 10,000 pounds of hot dogs, therefore, you know you've got 10,000 packages. A few packers deviate from this rule and give you, say, eight standard dogs per 12-ounce package, but they're in the minority.
Bakers prefer dozens, or more generally, multiples of three and four, notably four, six, eight, and twelve. These quantities lend themselves to compact packaging--three rows of four, two rows of three, two slabs of two by two (e.g., hamburger buns), and so on. Ten lends itself only to one row of ten or two rows of five, which are seldom compact shapes. Therefore, the baking mind-set--and here's where we start getting into anthropology--is such that you instinctively regard ten as an unwieldy number.
Ball Park bun length hot dogs come 8 to a pkg.
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one for the dog and one if you burn it.
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Some people like to eat the hot dogs without the buns. The buns used to come in packs of 12, but people were just wasting the extras.
They don't in Chicago. It's 8 and 8. You're getting two free ones. lol.
Some people don't like to eat the hot dogs with the buns. I know I don't.
I think it is so the bread companies can make you buy 2 packs of buns. But usually the little kids like their dogs without the bun.
10 hot dogs? Hebrew National only gives you 7 in a pack.
It depends in which country you are in. Frankfurts in package are sold by weight. In the USA it is more common to find packaged franks in 8s because Americans like larger sized meats. Here in Canada packaged franks are mostly 10s and sometimes even 12s.
That's why you buy the buns in bulk. You can get the right anount of buns, for the amount of hotdogs you bought.
I buy Ball Park all beef, and there is only 8 in the pkg.
It took a lot of people thinking long and hard about that one. The bun people won out. It makes you buy two packs to cover all the dogs. A great marketing concept.
i think i saw this on good eats., so here it goes
the hotdog bus were origionally baked in molds that bakes eight buns at a time, so they were sold in packs of eight.
Back in the early days people could buy hotdogs in whatever amount that they chose, and ten was a nice even number.
It also might be because one hotdog will allways fall off the grill and another is meant to go to your dog, who if is anything like mine doesn't care too much for bread. Wow those people at oscar mayer are smart.
Coincidentally, my hotdogs also come in packages of eight though, so go figure.