Why hot dogs in 10 packs, but rolls in 8

Have you ever bought hot dogs and rolls for a cookout, just to realize that you are either two short or two Viennese? You would think that now The makers of the American favorite baseball stadium snacks Would have solved this strange puzzle. Think again.

This may sound like a stupid conversation to have a time when many people have much more urgent problems. And they are right – but they listen to me, because sometimes we have the courage to solve the bigger ones. Baby steps. Come with me on this curious and historical journey to find out why we cannot get ours Hot dog-To-Bun ratio sorted.

Before around 1940, Hot dogs were bought and sold in local butchers and not packed as today. The buyers simply asked the butcher about the number of sausages they needed and were charged by the pound. This brings us to modern meat packaging, whereby meat is usually still being sold by the pound. One Standard American Hot Dog is about 1.6 ounces. If you were imitating, this means that 10 hot dogs bring you to a pound. It just makes sense, from a meat packaging and battle perspective to sell them through the pound, not through the piece.

Similarly, modern backhouse is optimized for efficiency with a firm defined standards and systems. Buns are usually baked In clusters of four in pans that are designed for the production of eight rollers each. For most bakeries, it simply does not make sense to fully improve your production systems and Pan designs in order to the average number Hot dogs in a pack.

The light at the end of the tunnel: in 2022, Heinz And Miracle bread Partnership to solve this problem in Canada by conveying a partnership to create 10 packs. Perhaps there is a similar deal for the United States on the horizon. In the meantime, however, we just have to have the Americans Find use for these two additional sausages.

My suggestion? Cut them open and make a small one Pork stack in ceilings For the brunch the next day. Everyone wins!