On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:19:23 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:17:04 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> That and tubesteak isn't a precision item either. I buy Nathans,
>>>> Hebrew National, and Sabrett's dawgs by the 4 pound bulk package,
>>>> supposed to be 48 count but about half the time it's one over or
>>>> under, occasionaly off by two... I know the actual count because as
>>>> soon as I get them home I repackage eight to a zip-loc and freeze
>>>> them.
>>>
>>>None of those manufacturers make 1.33oz hot dogs (12 dogs to the
>>>pound). I don't think anybody makes them that small except maybe FUD.
>>
>> Franfurters are made in many sizes/configurations, from jumbos down to
>> cocktails, and various pushcart styles as well including foot-longs.
>
> Yabbut show me a 1.33oz hot dog. They don't exist in the natural
> world.
>
>>>Next time you're at Sam's Club, buy some more fingers to do your
>>>calculations. Until then, I don't think you're qualified to count to
>>>48 accurately.
>>
>> Actually I meant to type 5 pounds... so each dawg/dork is even
>> smaller.
>
> Uhh, no. That would make them 25% bigger. Math and logic are not
> your strongest subjects, are they.
>
> -sw

i wonder what his 'strong' subjects are.

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:19:23 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:17:04 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> That and tubesteak isn't a precision item either. I buy Nathans,
>>>> Hebrew National, and Sabrett's dawgs by the 4 pound bulk package,
>>>> supposed to be 48 count but about half the time it's one over or
>>>> under, occasionaly off by two... I know the actual count because as
>>>> soon as I get them home I repackage eight to a zip-loc and freeze
>>>> them.
>>>
>>>None of those manufacturers make 1.33oz hot dogs (12 dogs to the
>>>pound). I don't think anybody makes them that small except maybe FUD.
>>
>> Franfurters are made in many sizes/configurations, from jumbos down to
>> cocktails, and various pushcart styles as well including foot-longs.
>
> Yabbut show me a 1.33oz hot dog. They don't exist in the natural
> world.
>
>>>Next time you're at Sam's Club, buy some more fingers to do your
>>>calculations. Until then, I don't think you're qualified to count to
>>>48 accurately.
>>
>> Actually I meant to type 5 pounds... so each dawg/dork is even
>> smaller.
>
> Uhh, no. That would make them 25% bigger. Math and logic are not
> your strongest subjects, are they.

Sorry, I was wrong. I don't know what I was thinking. I must have
drank a little to much gin last night. There are 48 tubesteaks to a
5lb package, making them 1 2/3oz each. Again, sorry for the
confusion.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:16:37 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
> > They aren't. A mix of pork, chicken and beef. Tried to get ones without
> > beef, but couldn't. We like chicken/turkey hot dogs.
>
> I bought some poultry bologna the other day on sale for $.79/lb just
> to remind myself how much I hate it.
>
> -sw

Not much of a fan of bologna in the first place I make the exception
for olive loaf, but that doesn't come beef-free either.

"Ranée at Arabian Knits" wrote:
>
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
> > Sometimes you win one, sometimes you don't. I bought a can of Gebhardts
> > chili without beans over 20 years ago. Damned thing had beans in it, no
> > one eats chili with beans on a hot dog. Wrote them a nice letter, asked
> > for them to flog the plant manager where the stuff was canned and send
> > me a picture of the flogging. Instead I got fifty bucks worth of coupons
> > for their products. Worked for me.
>
> Funny. :-)
>
> I _do_ eat chili with beans on hot dogs. When I eat chili with hot
> dogs. Which is rare.
>

I don't mind a good chile-cheese dog but not with beans.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:18:12 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
> > Sqwertz wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:15:36 -0600, Arri London wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anyone complained to a food company recently? Outcome?
> >>
> >> I complained to Ghiradelli Chocolate for selling gawd awful "White
> >> Chocolate Chips" that contained no chocolate (cocoa-butter) and tasted
> >> horrible.
> >
> > White chocolate never contains chocolate. It's just cocoa butter, sugar
> > and flavourings.
>
> That's why I put (cocoa butter) in parenthesis. "Chocolate" in its
> rawest form is a mixture of cocoa butter and cocoa powder. White
> chocolate contains no *cocoa powder*, but it does contain cocoa
> butter.
>
> Next time I'll say, "doesn't contain any COCOA".
>
> -sw


That will work nicely.

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.

Chemo the Clown wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 7:29 am, Ema Nymton > wrote:
> > On 10/11/2010 6:22 PM, Arri London wrote:
> >
> > > Try working in the food industry sometime One missing hot dog per box
> > > times however many boxes sold nationally adds up to a lot of hot dogs
> > > paid for but not received.
> >
> > > The point of the complaint is that the company's quality control went
> > > wrong. Where else did quality control go wrong?
> >
> > The count is supposed to be 30 per box, but I suspect these boxes are
> > filled by weight.
> >
> > BTW, I like corn dogs and I also like bagel dogs.http://www.gracecafepies.com/sitebui...og-294x212.jpg
> >
> > Becca
>
> should look at the box and see if it says, "Contents sold by weight".

It doesn't. Says '30 individually-wrapped servings'.

"Catmandy (Sheryl)" wrote:
>
> On Oct 11, 7:20 pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 4:22 pm, Arri London > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Chemo the Clown wrote:
> >
> > > > On Oct 9, 5:15 pm, Arri London > wrote:
> > > > > LOL!
> >
> > > > > Anyone complained to a food company recently? Outcome?
> >
> > > > > TMU *really* likes corn dogs and will often eat them when nothing else
> > > > > appeals. For those of you unfamiliar with this classic of state fairs
> > > > > and shopping mall food courts, a corn dog is a
> > > > > hotdog/frankfurter/sausage dipped in a cornmeal batter and deep fried.
> > > > > There are worse things to eat :P
> >
> > > > > We bought a 'family'-sized box of frozen corn dogs (State Fair Brand) at
> > > > > Sam's club today. Supposed to be 30 in the box. They get repackaged into
> > > > > bags of 10 each to save space in the freezer. Lo and woe, there were
> > > > > only 29 in the sealed box! The horror of it all!
> >
> > > > > The parent company has a Website with a comment form. Duly filled out
> > > > > (politely) with our complaint. Duly acknowledged by mailbot seconds
> > > > > after posting. Will be interesting to see how they resolve our...loss. A
> > > > > coupon for a free box would be nice, although Sam's doesn't take any
> > > > > coupons but their own.
> >
> > > > > We shall see
> >
> > > > An entire free box! God, everyone feels they are so entitled. You
> > > > deserve nothing but one corn dog. I'm sure you'll recover from
> > > > your..."loss". Have you considered therapy?
> >
> > > Try working in the food industry sometime One missing hot dog per box
> > > times however many boxes sold nationally adds up to a lot of hot dogs
> > > paid for but not received.
> >
> > > The point of the complaint is that the company's quality control went
> > > wrong. Where else did quality control go wrong?
> >
> > just because one dog got lost doens't mean quality control is running
> > amuck.
>
> It may not mean that. But then again, it may.


Precisely. Slipping on something simple could indicate slipping on more
complicated issues.

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:18:13 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:24:06 -0500, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I was wrong. I don't know what I was thinking. I must have
>> drank a little to much gin last night. There are 48 tubesteaks to a
>> 5lb package, making them 1 2/3oz each. Again, sorry for the
>> confusion.
>
>Sheldon?
>
>He must have bumped his head to be talking like that.

That's not me... I've offered condolences but I've never been "sorry"
in my life... only cops and douchebags say "I'm sorry" (for your
loss), when what they're really saying is that they feel sorry for
themself for having to endure the uncomfortableness of being exposed
to someones misery. And I don't drink gin unless it's a 2ni... and I
don't drink to [sic] much.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:05:07 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>
> > Sqwertz wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:16:37 -0600, Arri London wrote:
> >>
> >>> They aren't. A mix of pork, chicken and beef. Tried to get ones without
> >>> beef, but couldn't. We like chicken/turkey hot dogs.
> >>
> >> I bought some poultry bologna the other day on sale for $.79/lb just
> >> to remind myself how much I hate it.
> >
> > Not much of a fan of bologna in the first place I make the exception
> > for olive loaf, but that doesn't come beef-free either.
>
> Bologna is just a flat hot dog.
>
> -sw

LOL fair enough.