Packaging Disparity Between Hot Dogs and Buns - Ask It Basket
I am so glad someone finally asked. Jay writes …
So my dear Facebook friend - you asked recently if “we” had any suggestions for blog topics. Could you do a blog on why they make packets of hot dogs with 8 and yet they make packs of hot dog buns with 6. It leaves hot dog lovers with 2 less buns to work with. With all the research you do - and your insight to so much in life - I just had to consult with you on this.
You don’t know why? I am surprised. It’s really very easy to explain. (more after the jump)
See, when the Hot Dog Industry (HDI) first started, they had a very idealistic 7 Hot Dogs for 7 buns packaging scheme. The industrialized old school view of shoving all the left over pig scraps into a tube of processed meat was unsettling for a number of reasons. The Hot Dog founders thought that while processed pig parts tasted good to the “left in the dark about the ingredients” public … they felt guilty for feeding the masses something so disgusting. So instead of telling the masses they were eating pig lips, the 7 & 7 scheme was hatched. The number 7 has always been rumored to be the number of perfection. Adding bread buns made the packaging pretty, 7 was symbolically pleasing and the HDI Execs and public could live in denial. All the while those same execs could continue making a lot of money.
I mean think about it, nice warm bread … a staple of every civilization with any kind of grain throughout history, wrapped around boiled pig lips … problem settled.
Or so they thought. Enter greed …
At some point the HDI buns wing said, “wait a minute, we like making money so if we make the pig lip consuming public buy TWO packages of buns for every one package of hot dogs than all the better!” But then the HDI processed meat wing said, “But if we move away from the perfect number 7 … we have to at least make it even numbers.”
So *that* is why you have packaging of 8 and 6.
I think it is time for us to stop eating boiled pig parts we aren’t quite sure of.
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