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| now sold in packages of 5 |
I was doing my weekly shopping and thought, hey, why don't I
get some hotdogs. They weren't on sale,
but they are a quick and easy meal. I
know which ones I like, and I know where they are in the store. I quickly go there and pick up a package.
What!
There is something completely strange here.
There are only 5 hotdogs in the package.
Five?
I had to count several times. I looked around, thinking this must be a
hidden camera segment. Apparently not--but
I have checked YouTube repeatedly, just in case. So, naturally, I checked the buns.
Six, as usual.
Quite the conundrum.
When I was a child they sold hotdogs in packs of twelve and
buns in packs of 8. I thought that was
strange, but once I learned a little math, I figured two packages of hotdogs
and three packages of buns and all was well in the world. If I do that to today's problem I get six
packages of hotdogs and five packages of buns.
Someone at Schneider's wants you to eat 30 hotdogs. 30 hotdogs!
Obviously, this is another example of lowering the quantity
while maintaining the price. (see my previous post on this phenomenon http://theoctagonalpeg.blogspot.ca/2013/09/new-and-improved-means-smaller-and-just.html) This seems
pretty easy when you do it to liquids, or things that are sold by weight, but
why do it to hotdogs. They could have
made the hotdogs smaller. I probably
wouldn't have noticed, and might have appreciated the better fit to the bun and
the reduced calories.
What to do? I guess I
should consider the possibilities.
Possibilities
- I buy them all and store them in my freezer. I don't know if I actually have that much space. I am also not sure I can eat 30 hotdogs in one year.
- Buy one package and either throw out the last bun or keep it frozen until the next time. Two problems with this. I usually eat two hotdogs at a time. That means one hotdog will go to waste and two buns will stay frozen for a long time. It is also likely that I will forget about these things and buy new buns the next time. Soon my freezer will be overloaded with mismatched freezer burnt buns.
- I forget the whole thing and buy something healthier to eat. And that's what I did.
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