The Picard ManeuverMar 15
Prices are out of control
Show threadTrackinDaKraken

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?

Mar 15 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadJoshuaFalkenMar 15
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.
Show threadMarthirialMar 15
or $16 for the movie! WTF.
Show threadHeyJoeMar 15
$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.
Show threadGerudoMar 15
Agreed, it’s Nathan’s / Hebrew national or nothing for me.
Show threadbetterdeadthanredditMar 15
What kind of otherworldly paradise do you live in where the hot dogs and buns can be purchased in equal numbers like that?
Show threadRailcar8095Mar 15

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

Show threadafromustacheMar 16

Use them for other things?

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Show threadAeronMelonMar 15
He tried to warn us!
Show threadherrvogelMar 15
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.
Show threadMirsheMar 16

I’m remembering the koan in Bulletproof Monk now.

Because they are.

Show threadBrkdncrMar 15
Convenience.
Show threadBarneyPiccoloMar 15

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.

Show threadbetterdeadthanredditMar 15
Plus some warm pork tea to sip throughout the day. Refreshing.
Show threadBarneyPiccoloMar 15

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!”

Show threadJanxMar 15
What theater lets you bring a large Stanley thermos in!? Even if I just have coffee, I have to be sneaky with it…
Show threadBarneyPiccoloMar 15

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.

Show threadTachyonTeleMar 16
You just walk in like it’s normal. Because it is.
Show threadrumbaMar 15
TBF, it’s a better value than the popcorn or the soda, it’s only $300 markup.
Show threadagamemnonymousMar 16

$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.