why do hot dogs come in a pack of 10 and hot dog buns come in a pack of 8?!

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Hot dogs are packaged and sold by the pound, where as the buns are sold in multiples of a dozen (8 = 1/3 doz.). This comes from the old days before the super-market, when you would buy you bread from the bakery and your meats from the butcher. Now days, if you do a little looking around you can find 10 packs of buns, or more commonly you can get hot dogs in packages of 8, 6 and 4. The hot dogs by the way are still one pound packages, each dog is just bigger.

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.

The situation with bakers is a bit murkier. Here are some of the "explanations" you'll hear: We do it that way because everybody else does. If we started doing ten to the package we'd have to charge more, consumers wouldn't notice they were getting more, and we'd lose business. Fine, but why did the first guy start packing eight?

There is something inherent in baking tray or oven design that makes ten impractical to produce

because you're buying the wrong hot dogs

My hot dogs come in packs of 8.