I'm just curious what the logic is behind it all. Perhaps it is a marketing ploy to make us buy 6 packs of hot dogs and 8 packs of buns?
2006-10-27 14:50:17 · 15 answers · asked by HawkDog 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
People ask this question all the time and I find it very confusing. All the hot dog buns (Stroehmans, Sweetheart) I buy come in packs of 8.
2006-10-27 14:53:21 · answer #1 · answered by maigen_obx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could be a ploy. Mostly i see 8 packs of buns. But i've noticed i can find 10 packs of hot dogs too, but not buns.
2006-10-27 15:06:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jen D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To confuse and confound us into having to buy more hot dog buns than actual hot dogs, so, go figure, gotta love those morons up in marketing that just love to twiddle with people. Just get even with them, buy the 16 pack of hot dog buns, put half in the freezer, and get 2 packs of dogs, HA knew we were smarter than them!
2006-10-27 18:04:14 · answer #3 · answered by Bunny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I say its for the two hot dogs my son will eat without the roll. He don't like bread that much. But realistically its probably has something to do with what you said. Gotta buy 24 total to get the math to work out though. Kinda like gasoline - they charge you to the 9/10ths on the penny just so you gotta pay that extra cent.
2006-10-27 15:01:25 · answer #4 · answered by friendly advice from maine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I normally eat the 2 spare ones while I'm 'checking' to see if the hotdogs are 'warm enough' yet.
Being serious though, bakers traditionally make things in twelves and sixes (dozen & half-dozen). Meat (hotdogs) however is normally sold by the weight so it might just mean that 8 hotdogs normally rounds to a convenient weight (i.e. 500g).
Your also assuming that buns are made for just hotdogs.
2006-10-29 04:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
so that you purchase warm dogs and buns till you've an equivalent volume of warm dogs and buns. meaning, you need to purchase 5 programs of warm dogs and four programs of buns. that's all contained in the promotion and marketing. they elect to screw you over.
2016-10-16 06:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by swailes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they want you to buy MORE hot dogs and twice as many buns to compensate.
Or they could be thinking about drunk people, when they drop one or the other in the fire.
2006-10-27 14:52:17 · answer #7 · answered by Hailee D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats all it is just a marketing ploy to make us buy more, you buy more buns then you end up buying more hotdogs and on and on and on and on
2006-10-27 14:54:02 · answer #8 · answered by The gr8t alien 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That way you have to buy 24 of them to come out even. If they really wanted to make money they would package them in prime number increments.
2006-10-27 14:52:45 · answer #9 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That has long been a good question and I still don't know the answer. It seems to defy logic.
2006-10-29 04:30:21 · answer #10 · answered by COACH 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋