Posted on 05/18/2005 7:47:10 PM PDT by Rodney King
May 17, 2005 8:18 am US/Central
It's a source of frustration at cookouts everywhere: There are never enough hot dogs, and there always seem to be way too many buns.
Hot dogs and hot dog buns are sold in different quantities, but that's going to change!
Starting today, Vienna Beef and Alpha Baking Company, which manufactures S. Rosen buns, are promising to sell the buns and hot dogs in the same numbers.
According to a press release, the companies will sign a formal piece treaty, vowing to package hot dogs and buns in quantities of eight.
Hot dogs are currently sold eight to a pack, with buns selling with six or twelve a pack, the press release states. In order to have an even cookout, chefs must buy 24 of each to ensure every dog has a breaded mate.
Thanks to former inequities, more than 2 million buns a year are wasted, the press release states.
A piece treaty which is a true peace treaty.
Reparations are in order.
Nostradamus predicted this.
Verily I say unto thee, it is a sign of the End Times.
Hot Diggity...oh never mind.
Hot dogs and buns, living together!
It MUST be The Rapture!
They've both been in eight-packs in PA for years.
Looks like food for thought for you all. To be perfectly frank, I've mustard my last bit of punning strength, much as I relish these threads. Well, I'll let you all ketchup to this -- I've got no beef with anything you say.
Well, it's about time.
Women, children & minorities hardest hit.
Have never seen hot-dog buns in a 6-pack. Have only seen them sold in packages of 8 or 12 hereabouts (Upper Ohio Valley). Hot-dogs, however, are sold in packages of 8 or 10--unless, of course, you're buying the giant, economy, 3-lb. family pack. :-)
this has clearly brought out the würst in you. don't be such a brät.
[Hot dogs are currently sold eight to a pack, with buns selling with six or twelve a pack]
DUH! You're supposed to buy 24 of each.
:^)
Hey, you're on a roll, hispana!!
Here hot dogs are 10 and buns are 8.
There don't seem to be many puns left, but you dance with the gal that brat ya, I suppose.
"Great news. This has always driven me nuts."
Me too! Life continues to improve, if one only pays attention. First the VCR, now this. Soon all my little problems will be solved. The big problems will probably remain.
I rarely sausage a game effort, Lib. You've bean putting some thought on this.
I question the timing of this!
Ditto!
Dangit, second time in as many days I was beat to a pun.
Aw, well, at least I can take some solace in the fact that my puns are usually the wieners.
Finally, some good news we can sink our teeth into.
Can $2.25 per gallon gas be far behind? (Instead of $2.24 and that maddening "9/10")
Oh jeez, it is not 'quantities' but 'units.'
A 'quantities' is not a number, volume, or mass, just typical numbskull reporting from the MSM.
But the point of synching #buns to #wieners is not rocket science. It only gets ugly when the contest becomes carbohydrates vs. protein.
Freeper Freepun' PING!
Invitations are cordially extended to you, HR, to join us in our punning.
I'm driven mad bad brats being sold in 6 and buns in 8...
PLEASE HELP ME I CAN'T DO FRACTIONS!!!!
Got so hot on the topic I forgot to do the pinging! Ping to 26!
I am so glad you posted this. I saw a "teaser" on TV this evening but missed the story. Parity at last!!!
Golly cheese....your hot dog puns leave me feeling chili.
Man, this turned out to be a good topic--thread's almost a footlong! I suppose we're on a roll!
Well, I'll take that as a condiment.
So the hot dog cartel and the bun conglomerate have connived together to force their own hideous standardization on the oppressed masses, huh? Down with capitalism! Down with globalization!! We'll never submit!! Even if they mustard an army against us we'll still ketchup!
The nice thing about it is that there are no weiners or losers.
Could you give an example of the proper vs. improper use of units and quantities? I'm curious, I know there's a rule there, but I was never taught that rule.
Ooooh, yes, yes! I'll have to 'Polish' my punning but I've been 'cured' of puns 'linked' to sausage.
We are LUCKY we were here to witness a SAFEWAY to invite AL BERT & SONS.
It won't work until they figure out how to slice the buns dead center. Off center bun slices really piss Me off!
Linked...AAAIIGH!
(holds nose, runs screaming into night--a high compliment to punners)
As head of this ping list I have a pretty fair constitution for puns, but you're gonna have to be careful with puns like that. You could kiel a boss-a right over.
I see you have stored up a few puns of your own. Aisle drink to that.
From Father Of The Bride (1991):
STOCK
BOY
Excuse me, sir, but what are you doing?
GEORGE (Stever Martin)
I'll tell you what I'm doing. I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them. But no one sells eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns. So I end up paying for four buns I don't need. So I am removing the superfluous buns.
STOCK
BOY
I'm sorry, sir. But you're going to have to pay for all twelve buns. They're not marked individually.
GEORGE
Yeah. And you want to know why? Because some big-shot over at the wiener company got together with some big-shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the American public. Because they think the American public is a bunch of trusting nit-wits who will pay for everything they don't need rather than make a stink!
MANAGER
Get me security.
GEORGE
Well, they're not ripping off this nit-wit anymore because I'm not
paying for one more thing I don't need! George Banks is saying no!
STOCK
BOY
Who's George Banks?
GEORGE
Me!
LOL. I had forgotten about that scene. Thanks.
Same in AZ, CA, and pretty much everywhere I been in the past, oh, 20 years or so.
Glad that SeeBS is hot on the story. Maybe they can even dig up a few old memos on this historic (and historical) event.
Oh, so now yer morphing into supermarket puns? Can the Publix join you, or are y'all having your own Fiesta over here?
i'll try andoulle what you say.
Oh Shaw, as they say in Boston. Hey, it's a Giant thread, and we have a scan-do attitude here.
Well I'm late on another one. Looks like I'm toast. I was out at the bar - becues I just needed a drink. At least this is a solid thread, no tin foil needed. Even though I come in late I do relish reading all the great puns. But now I'm in a pickle with the boss.
Whenever I think of hot dogs I think of the story of the Buddhist monk who approached the hot-dog street vendor and said "make me one with everything".
It's just Bush legacy building...
If I must'rd be here, oh well.
When tube steaks have bunted their way onto your plate, it brings paws to relish the old saying, Baseball, Hot dogs and apple pie!
Although, some are just old sourkrauts, and onions are just plain curbunions, a mutually shared grilling sometimes leads to a hamburgered curbunion onion dogged experience with a racing squeeze play to ketchup.
A burnt curmudgeon bunion onion on a dogged cased ground round beefed encasement, surrounded by a heat formed paste enveloped in a pesto inspired mire, it's usually Oscermyered in deep sabrett. Nathoniziation is best. If you must'erd.
Anybody for pizza??? :-)
You are obviously well-bread, the way you pepper your sentences with dill-igent punning. "Make me one with everything." Oh man, I have to remember that one.
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