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Why do hot dog buns come in packs of 8, but hot dogs come in packs of 10??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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you're not buying enough at a time. you're supposed to buy four packs of hot dogs and five packs of buns.
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I knew it had to be some sort of conspiracy
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Because some people, like me, like to go bun-less. 
Marc
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Commando weinies? 
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This has been explained elsewhere.
Buns are less resilient than the hot dogs so it is often the case that a bun becomes soggy or ripped.
There are actuarial tables that show for every 8 hot dogs you need 10 buns because of loss.
Originally the bun-makers did this to be nice and then they lobbied and got a law put into place that states, Quote: "if consumer suffers no loss of bunnage, said consumer must throw away 2 extra buns".
You are illegally eating those extra buns and will be reported, post haste.
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Hah, that sounds more like an American, no ARTE stuff
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This question has already been answered  at the end of Bulletproof Monk[^]
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Why Don't Hot Dogs and Hot Dog Buns Come in Packs of Equal Number? - YouTube[^]
The TLDW: It has to do with tradition. Meat is generally sold by the pound (1.6oz dog, 1lb total = 10 dogs per pack). Bread pans generally come in multiples of 4 by tradition. So unless the meat industry changes its standard or the bread industry spends a ton of money making new equipment, this is just how it is.
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As a spot check of your rant, I went to tesco.com (that's what popped into my head) and searched for "hot dog"
For the result search returned, the results are as followed
Number of dogs in pack:
8/8/6/6/6/8/10/5/8/10/4/8/10/w/w/w/w/w/w/w/w
w= sold by weight, number of dogs not specified
For the buns, these were:
6/6/6/4
So the only conclusion I can establish is: Hot dog packs typically contain more dogs than bun packs contain buns, and 8 Hot Dogs appears to be the common pack size. If it more common for the US pack size to be 10, this might be the source of the obesity problem, as someone will eat those extra 2, "as it would be a shame to waste them". 
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So, it's possible to regurgitate (food).
However, there's apparently no word, gurgitate.
Looking into this further (if I didn't, one of you would have) I found that there's a Latin root, gurgis (surprise!). However - deep contemplation of the meaning of said root, I realize the word should properly be ungurgitate.
This kind of misguided lexicographical disinformation makes me nauseous.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: So, it's possible to regurgitate (food).
However, there's apparently no word, gurgitate.
This is gonna bother me for a couple of days...
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Well - it really should be ungurgitate - unless you eat the same stuff, again. Then, and only then, does it make sense. Regurgitate covers the return trip IN.
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Don't go there - I've seen it done ... 
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I may have posted this earlier, but that is why Oatmeal is The Perfect Food.
Suppose you eat a bowl of oatmeal. Alas, something or other makes you nauseous. When you ungurgitate the oatmeal you are fortunate enough to catch it in your original bowl.
It looks the same as before you ate it.
It's still warm.
You can just eat it again!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It looks the same as before you ate it.
It's still warm.
You can just eat it again!
And I just about threw up into my mouth on that one
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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As a dog returneth to its vomit...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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W∴ Balboos wrote: unless you eat the same stuff, again
Ah. We now have the word for what my female greyhound does. One of her favorite things in the world to do is to eat a bunch of grass in the back yard, wander into the kitchen, expel said grass onto the tile floor, and then re-injest it. Along with anything else she'd found along the way.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: female greyhound
Well, from my point of view, she just sounds so bitchy.
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Well, one of her nicknames is "Miss Woofy McGrumpyButt", because she's always barking at our male greyhound and trying to boss him around.
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Worse: "flammable" and "inflammable" mean exactly the same thing...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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W∴ Balboos wrote: However, there's apparently no word, gurgitate.
there was in the language that English borrowed 'regurgitate' from: Latin.
From Late Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, combined form of re- (“back”) + >gurgitare (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
regurgitate - Wiktionary[^]
we just didn't borrow gurgitare.
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Peruse my post - went there and did that knowing someone would do what you did.
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Quote: I realize the word should properly be ungurgitate.
but that's not right. regurgitate is correct because that's the Latin word English borrowed. it's not a word English mushed together from Latin components, it's an actual Latin word.
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