# Why are there 12 hot dogs per package and 8 buns per package? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 20, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186 "2006-03-20T19:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/21 "2006-03-21T16:49:05Z")
If y’all knew what was in those hotdogs, there would be no problem. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/22 "2006-03-21T17:14:32Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > If y’all knew what was in those hotdogs, there would be no problem. Hey, some of us aren’t queasy at all about ingesting knuckles and rectums. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/23 "2006-03-21T17:19:31Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > An odd number?? ::head explodes Not just odd, but _prime_. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/24 "2006-03-21T17:46:20Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Not just odd, but _prime_. That’s just not kosher. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/25 "2006-03-21T20:57:42Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > Ya buncha woosies. You don’t need a bun to eat a hot dog. A hot dog should be shoved onto the end of a long stick and stuck into a roaring fire until black. Then you eat it off the stick. > > Problem solved. 🙂 I tried, but now there’s black smoke stains on my kitchen ceiling, and the linoleum looks like hell. ☹ > [@gigi](#): > > An odd number?? ::head explodes That’s just immoral! I wonder if it has to do with Judaism’s particular fondness for the number seven. Are a lot of kosher foods sold in sevens? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/26 "2006-03-21T22:12:07Z")
Here, most people buy jumbo hotdogs which are 8 in a pack. The buns generally come eight in a pack. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186/27 "2006-03-22T00:03:30Z")
Didn’t Chow Yun-Fat have some faux-Zen-but-not-really answer to this question in _Bulletproof Monk_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-12-hot-dogs-per-package-and-8-buns-per-package/349186.md?page=1)