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Why would anyone pay $8 for a hot dog?
People, do not pay $8 for a hot dog, are you insane?
You can buy 8 hot dogs and 8 buns for $2.50. Why the hell would you pay $8 for one hot dog? You can't wait two hours to have a shitty hot dog?
$8 for a hot dog isn't terrible if it's like a cool fancy "hot dog", like a footlong kielbasa with a seeded bun loaded with neat toppings.
Probably not what they serve at the movie theater though.
What kind of otherworldly paradise do you live in where the hot dogs and buns can be purchased in equal numbers like that?
I'm remembering the koan in Bulletproof Monk now.
Because they are.
He tried to warn us!
The nearest supermarket to me stocks both buns and hot dogs in 4 or 5 packs. They alternate between the different packages. Except if it's a 4 pack of buns, then you get 5 dogs and vice versa. I suspect it's done on purpose, to force you to buy 20 dogs and 20 buns to equal it out.
If there are 6 buns and only 5 hot dogs, and you want to eat 28 in one sitting, you can make 28 and have 2 ready at home.
Or you can just... Use them for other things? I'm not American so the ritual if the hotdog isn't something very serious for me. Hope I didn't say anything too heretic
TBF, it's a better value than the popcorn or the soda, it's only $300 markup.
or $16 for the movie! WTF.
The problem is that you have to get your hot dogs from home into the theater, and that's trickier.
I once knew a guy that had two hot dogs for lunch every day. He brought them to work in a Thermos, and when he took them out at lunch, they were still hot. He brought a couple of rolls, squirted on some mustard, and that was his lunch.
So sneak in a few dogs in a Thermos (you could probably use one of those big Stanley tumblers), and a few buns, and some mustard packets, and save yourself some money.
Plus some warm pork tea to sip throughout the day. Refreshing.
That's hilarious disgusting, but he always had them in his Thermos loose. He'd just turn it over and shake them out.
There is something disconcerting about watching hot dogs pour out of a Thermos. You know what's coming, but as soon as the dogs appear, your brain screams "PENIS!"
What theater lets you bring a large Stanley thermos in!? Even if I just have coffee, I have to be sneaky with it...
You just walk in like it's normal. Because it is.
I just walk in with it, nobody questions it. If they did, I'd just tell them that I'm going to buy a Coke, and pour it into my cup.
My son walks into movie theaters with a tote bag of stuff that he bought on the way. In NYC, nobody questions it, people are walking around with their stuff all the time.
Or just go to Costco and get them for $1.50
$2.50 for both? I am not eating the bottom of the barrell ones. It's like $3 on sale for a semi decent pack of hot dogs, and $2 min for ok buns. The only ones i can think of that are around a dollar are the bar s brand and those ahould not be eaten by anyone. They are terrible.
Agreed, it's Nathan's / Hebrew national or nothing for me.
Not sure why, but hot dogs to me are theatre food, same as popcorn. It's the only place I have those things. Eight dollars is crazy though.
Convenience.