The funny thing about all those jokes about "8 hotdogs in a pack and 12 buns" or similar weird mis-matches (I always remember it being "6 hotdogs, 8 buns") is that I rarely ever see that in practice, in my limited hotdog & hotdog bun buying experiences.
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but it's such a classic joke that I assume it actually is true. Maybe some manufacturers do that for whatever reason (price points, how much bread they can get out of one normal-sized loaf, weird marketing tricks) but it doesn't seem to be common in stores, that I've seen.
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but I'm not sure if it's just that the weird-mismatch ones are not common (because people really DO like to buy them in matching amounts), if it's geographical (maybe the midwest does this, and both coasts I've bought hotdogs on don't?
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or maybe it's historical. Maybe this WAS the way they did it in the 70s/80s/early 90s, and by the time I started buying my own hotdogs & buns, they'd normalized at 8:8?
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possibly because they decided everyone knew the jokes already and the positive impact of selling them in matched amounts outweighed the psychological trickery of mismatching them to get people to buy more of both?
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I bet there are some marketers who did a very involved study on this, there were lots of surveys and trial runs of different ratios.
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in any case, in my entire grocery-shopping life I have never had problems with mismatched hotdog:bun ratios.
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which was a bit of a problem cause as a kid I sometimes liked to eat hotdog buns as a snack. so inevitably my mom would be like "let's have hotdogs for lunch!" and it turns out we have 5 hotdogs left and 2 buns and "DAMN IT KID!FOONE! STOP EATING THE BUNS"
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it is amusing to see companies have to change based on jokes and cultural references. Like, I bought some polaroid film last year, and it had to specifically mention to not "shake it like a polaroid picture", no mater what OutKast tells you.
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this seems like the kind of thing where there'd be a tvtropes list of marketing campaigns that had to change because of people making fun of them too much
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