Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:14:13 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
> > Chemo the Clown wrote:
> >
> >> just because one dog got lost doens't mean quality control is running
> >> amuck.
> >
> > It's a symptom. It's very unlikely it's only happened the one time
>
> They're probably packaged by weight rather than by count. I know the
> Jeno's (now Totino's) pizza rolls used to say "12 rolls" but then it
> changed to "11-13" pizza rolls.

Ya... used to buy little 'egg rolls' packaged that way.
>
> Most likely the batter was a little thicker than normal that day and
> 29 corn dogs weighed the same as 30 on a normal-batter day.

Could be, but then the labelling should be changed to reflect that.

>
> Or maybe one bounced off the lip of the bag/box and landed on the
> floor.

There is always that.

>
> NB: At the Santa Cruz Boardwalk one day we all bought a corn dog. I
> dropped my unbitten dog on the ground. I turned around and reached
> down to pick it up planning to invoke the 5-second rule and some guy
> purposely went out of his way to reach over with his foot and step on
> it just before I could pick it up. So since I was down there anyway
> with my arm half extended at the ready, I punched him square in the
> nuts. He crumpled over and his wife/girlfriend started swinging her
> purse at me, then the rest of my friends. She chased us for about 40
> yards and gave up. It was the best $2 I ever spent (it was 1984 -I
> was 17. Boardwalk Corn Dogs have probably doubled in price since then)
>
> Ahh, the good 'ol days. I can't eat or even mention corn dogs without
> thinking of that incident.
>
> -sw

What a strange thing for that person to do. What could he possibly care
about your eating habits.