This is Why Hot Dogs Are Sold in Ten Packs, But Hot Dog Buns Are Sold in Eight Packs.
Have you ever noticed that hot dogs are sold in packs of 10 and hot dog buns come in an 8-count? This mismatch has confounded consumers for over 80 years, and there’s a reason for the discrepancy – lack of communication between butchers and bakers.
Hot dogs usually weigh 1.6 ounces each, and meat is sold by the pound, so producers sell them 10 to package, which translates to one pound. Companies started selling them this way in the 1940s, according to Reader's Digest. Baking machinery is set to produce four buns, and bakers started packing two sheets of buns into a package which amounts to eight buns. If they packed ten buns into a package, the package would be uneven and not stacked properly on store shelves.
Heinz Ketchup tried to solve the problem in 2022 by offering 10-bun packs in collaboration with Wonder Bread, but there’s only one problem – they are only currently available in Ontario, Canada. The long and short of it is that there still is no solution to match the number of hot dogs and hot dog buns, but you could buy four packages of hot dogs and five packages of buns to make a total of 40 matching pairs.
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A fire department in Connecticut has been accused of serving up "phallic meatloaf" in front of underage students who were as young as 16.
It happened at a dinner during some training course.
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A New Zealand Pizzeria Has a New Payment Option: "Buy Now, Pay . . . When You Die"
The bad thing about those "Buy Now, Pay Later" services is . . . You don't get THAT much extra time. It's Gen Z's version of LAYAWAY. But THIS is something I could get behind . . .
A New Zealand-based pizza chain is doing a new spin on Buy Now, Pay Later: "Buy now, pay . . . MUCH later . . . WHEN YOU DIE."
The place is called Hell Pizza . . . and the promotion is called "AfterLife Pay."
It's not open to EVERYONE. You need to be local: They're accepting 666 applicants from New Zealand and 666 from Australia. And if you do it, you're promising that you will write what you owe into your will.
It isn't 100% serious. Hell Pizza admits it's a "light-hearted" stunt . . . but they ARE accepting applications, and they ARE giving out delayed-payment pizzas to 666 "winners" in both countries.
Each person will get ONE pizza through "AfterLife Pay," which is valued at $25.
Hell Pizza claims the agreement you sign to pay after death is "legally binding." No interest or fees will apply . . . and in the terms and conditions, it says they reserve the right to "enforce the debt owed by the Applicant against their estate upon death... . or forgive any debt owed to it by the Applicant."
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