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Aug
04
2021
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By Troy Warren
French’s Created Hot Dog Buns with the Mustard Baked Right In

French’s Created Hot Dog Buns with the Mustard Baked Right In

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By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT If you can't score a bag of yellow buns, you can try to make them for yourself. For a couple of years now, French's has made a tradition out of coming up with odd new products in honor of National Mustard Day. In 2019, it was French's Mustard Ice Cream produced in collaboration with Coolhaus. In 2020, French's released French's Mustard Beer, working with Oskar Blues. So what's French's got up their sleeve for 2021? Well, if you were hoping to be shocked by something even more bizarre, temper your expectations. (Hopefully, you didn't put…
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Jul
10
2021
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There’s a reason hot dogs and buns don’t come in equal packaging

There’s a reason hot dogs and buns don’t come in equal packaging

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By Avery Newmark, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT We’ve all had this moment in the grocery store, where you’re standing with an eight pack of hot dog buns and a 10 pack of hot dogs, trying to do the calculus on how many dog and bun packages will be required to make everything line up neatly. The uneven hot dog-to-bun packaging ratio is weird, but according to the National Hot Dog Sausage Council (NHDSC), the reason isn’t as strange as you may think. The NHDSC, which was founded in 1994, explained the mismatched packaging is because of the way these items…
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Jul
06
2021
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Heinz Starts Petition to Finally Put Equal Number of Hot Dogs and Buns in Packages

Heinz Starts Petition to Finally Put Equal Number of Hot Dogs and Buns in Packages

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By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT The condiment company wants "big bun and big wiener companies to finally sell buns and wieners in even packs." It's one of those age-old questions that never seems to get a satisfactory answer: Why is the number of hot dogs in a pack (usually ten) different from the number of hot dog buns in a bag (usually eight)? (The joke even got a whole scene in the 1991 movie Father of the Bride.) The gist of the explanation seems to be that the packaging priorities differ for meat producers and bakers — though that also doesn't explain why they…
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