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Why hot dogs come in tensand hot dog buns come in packages of eight.

posted 18 years ago by Maxvdm
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To have enough buns to go with you're sausages, you will need to buy 40 of each. That is 4 hotdog packages and 5 hotdog bun packages.

This, obviously over a period of time, will ensure that people will often have an inbalanced and will be pressured to buy more.

It's a subtle effect, but then again, most marketing is equally subtle.

A cheap money making ploy, dressed up in the guise of something deep and spiritual.

I think that sums up this movie perfectly.

Which is a shame, because I like Chow Yun Fat and that other guy with the forgettable name.

It's unfortunate that they messed up near everything they possibly could have.

[–] rjcuk 18 years ago

I agree with the money marketing idea.

However I also think that it means that not everything in life is always easy. Not my best theory/philosophy but still valid.

[–] Chester_LP 18 years ago

A cheap money making ploy, dressed up in the guise of something deep and spiritual.

I think that sums up this movie perfectly.

Which is a shame, because I like Chow Yun Fat and that other guy with the forgettable name.

I couldn't agree more, Chow Yun Fat is an excellent actor and did good in here as well. The stunts in the movie were also nice, but the whole plot - as you said it, it is just dressed up to look deep, but it isn't. If they weren't tring to make it the next "Matrix" so much, it would have turned up better.

And that buns and sausages thing is totally ridiculous.

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[–] lathe-of-heaven 17 years ago

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Sigh..., it's such a Dog eat Dog world...

DOHHHH!!!

[–] RetroRoger 17 years ago

Buy the 12-oz. package of dogs, rather than the pound package, and you'll usually get eight instead of ten. Moderation brings balance. It's the Way of the Wiener.

[–] systemen 12 years ago

Or move to Holland.
Usually we have 10 buns in a package.

Marius

[–] dopeyharp0 17 years ago

Which is a shame, because I like Chow Yun Fat and that other guy with the forgettable name.

That other guy..? You could have at least just called him 'Stifler'

[–] NightShadeAlleluia 17 years ago

i think there's more to it than that

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[–] sandcrab277 8 years ago

the other guy indeed...he's just pathetic

[–] evolstrebor 17 years ago

Sometime you might want a sausage without a bun. Like eating one or two fresh off the grill while the others are still cooking.

[–] hgrainger 17 years ago

Two nuns, fresh from the convent in Italy, and on their first trip to New York City, and eager to practice their English are walking down the main street.

They see a Hot Dog stall and, having heard a little about how it is the quintessential American street snack food, they buy one each.

Standing a little to the side, the older of the two pried open her bun and asked the other: "So, which bit of the dog did you get?"

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[–] Plague2005 14 years ago

That life does not always end up the way you want it to. So be happy with what you've got. So if you have 8 buns and 10 hot dogs, be happy with the extra dogs eventhough you don't have enough buns.

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[–] Mouldyman 17 years ago

Sausages here come in packs of six, eight or twelve. I think it's done deliberately like that to confuse the buddhists.

[–] frank_da_tank82 14 years ago

Where I'm from it's eight in the package of hot dogs, eight buns.

[–] RobBase086-1 14 years ago

Yes it is a good money marketing idea. It always happens that way especially in retail. Why do you think they move stores in a mall or things that they sell in a store? To get you to look around for that one item and while you are doing that you see other things that you may want to buy. It always works.

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[–] systemen 12 years ago

I still don't understand the official explaination of the monk?

Because you can always get another hotdog?
I don't get it. It is the buns where you have shortage of, correct? Not the hotdogs?

Marius

[–] RobBase086-1 12 years ago

Well more than likely the people who make hotdog buns need to add a couple more buns into the package to make it even with the hotdogs.

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[–] imdb-15906 10 years ago

Oscar Meyer Bun-Length Franks are packaged in groups of eight. The "money-making ploy" explanation only makes sense if the buns and the hot dogs are made by the same company, or if all the manufacturers are colluding somehow. It seems more likely that the numbers are different because the manufacturers aren't communicating. It would be slightly interesting to know who decided how many things to put in each package and why. Why eight and ten? Why not five, seven, or eleven? Since hot dogs are roughly cylindrical, an odd number would pack more closely together. And who came up with the idea of a dozen? Why twelve instead of ten? Wikipedia has some speculation on the topic.