# Why!!!! Why o why!!!! \[hot dogs and hot dog buns\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686 "2013-12-06T16:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wreckinball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wreckinball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wreckinball)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/1 "2013-12-06T16:19:46Z")
Ladies and Gents, Can anyone answer this… Why do hotdogs come in a package of eight and the buns come in a package of SIX… ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/2 "2013-12-06T16:21:21Z")
It’s obviously a consipracy to make you prepare hot dogs in batches of 24. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/3 "2013-12-06T16:21:39Z")
It’s so that you have to buy 8 packages of buns and 6 packages of hotdogs. A vast, vast, Orwellian conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/4 "2013-12-06T16:22:31Z")
Cecil addressed this great mystery 25 years ago. [Here’s his take on the subject.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/560/why-do-hot-dogs-come-10-to-a-pack-while-buns-are-8-to-a-pack) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/5 "2013-12-06T16:24:32Z")
I found a great website [that answers this very question](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/560/why-do-hot-dogs-come-10-to-a-pack-while-buns-are-8-to-a-pack)! 🙂 ETA: Beaten! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/6 "2013-12-06T16:28:42Z")
> [@wreckinball](#): > > Ladies and Gents, > Can anyone answer this… Why do hotdogs come in a package of eight and the buns come in a package of SIX… Cite? Because my hot dogs (Hebrew National) comes in packages of seven. Of course, true Erisians know that hot dogs are properly eating sans bun. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/7 "2013-12-06T16:31:30Z")
I have the opposite problem. I like large sausage type hot dogs that come six to a package, so I have the two extra buns that you ten-wiener lovers are missing. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/8 "2013-12-06T17:09:17Z")
Life is too short to eat hot dogs in any combination. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/9 "2013-12-06T17:17:34Z")
> [@wreckinball](#): > > Ladies and Gents, > Can anyone answer this… Why do hotdogs come in a package of eight and the buns come in a package of SIX… It is mandated by the sellers of canned beans - so you have two dogs to add to the baked beans. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/10 "2013-12-06T17:21:45Z")
The last package of buns I bought contained 8. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/11 "2013-12-06T17:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Meatros** : > > It’s so that you have to buy 8 packages of buns and 6 packages of hotdogs. And this is why we need better math education in the schools. 4 and 3 would work just fine. See, that stuff really is useful! Now, if they really wanted you to buy large quantities, they’d make the numbers relatively prime. > [@](#): > > Quoth **Pleonast** : > > Cite? Because my hot dogs (Hebrew National) comes in packages of seven. …Oh. Maybe there really is a vast Jewish conspiracy, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/12 "2013-12-06T17:31:07Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I have the opposite problem. I like large sausage type hot dogs that come six to a package, so I have the two extra buns that you ten-wiener lovers are missing. Sounds like you need to grill with a friend, one that uses ten-pack hot dogs. Then if you donate two buns, you’ll both be even. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/13 "2013-12-06T17:31:18Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Cite? Because my hot dogs (Hebrew National) comes in packages of seven. My favorite version of Hebrew National comes four to a pack. Thus, I could send the OP the remaining two buns to make up for your shortfall. Thus, I am now officially the double “missing link”! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/14 "2013-12-06T17:37:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I found a great website [that answers this very question](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/560/why-do-hot-dogs-come-10-to-a-pack-while-buns-are-8-to-a-pack)! 🙂 > ETA: Beaten! two minutes late and two dogs short. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/15 "2013-12-06T17:38:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And this is why we need better math education in the schools. 4 and 3 would work just fine. See, that stuff really is useful! Now, if they really wanted you to buy large quantities, they’d make the numbers relatively prime. Yeah, I realized that after I posted, but meh I went for the first thing that popped into my head, consequences be damned… In any event, I’ll be here with my 48 hotdogs, chomping away while you moan from the hunger ravaging your stomach because you didn’t buy enough… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/16 "2013-12-06T17:39:00Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > two minutes late and two dogs short. I have a hot dog in my pocket. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/17 "2013-12-06T18:03:03Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Cite? Because my hot dogs (Hebrew National) comes in packages of seven. > > Of course, true Erisians know that hot dogs are properly eating sans bun. Seven, obviously, so you have one hot dog for each spot in the menorah. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/18 "2013-12-06T18:12:19Z")
Wait. Where did you even find a package of 6 hot dog buns? I’ve never seen one. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/19 "2013-12-06T18:34:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I have a hot dog in my pocket. Are you Anthony Wiener in real life? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686/20 "2013-12-06T18:44:28Z")
Most hot dog packages and bun packages I’ve seen both contain eight. So there are no leftovers of either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-why-o-why-hot-dogs-and-hot-dog-buns/675686.md?page=2)