Maybe for those who prefer eating hot dogs without buns.

This is no accident. It's all part of "The Jewish Conspiracy" and you would know this if you purchased the hot dogs that answer to a higher authority...Hebrew National...which come in packages of 7 (unless you buy the magnificent quarter pounders, which come in packages of 4). That left over bun is the "guilt bun". Many times I have asked myself, "Who gets this extra bun? A squirrel? The birds? The food bank? Or the poor Palestinian children whose parents are too busy lobbing rockets into Israel to properly bun their children's hot dogs.

Eenie, meenie, minie, Achmed...

So grocery store managers can watch you over the security camara, giggling as you try to figure out the lowest common denominator. Or, maybe they just hope you'll go ahead and buy 5 packages of buns and 4 packages of hot dogs.

The theory is, at minimum, at least one of those dang buns is not gonna open properly and will become bird fodder.  The other one, however, I am still trying to figure out.  Possibly, and this is just a thought, the drug companies follow the bun peeps around and then take the left overs (which are of course, moldy), and make penicillan ~ THEN they take that penicillan and put it in the Tier 3 of your Perscription coverage, and viola!  That extra bun know costs you $50.00 at the Pharmacy!  .....Or maybe not!  I could just possibly be PO'd at our new insurance policy at work.

Cause there will always be some picky kid at every function that says, "I don't want a bun!"

If you can't figure out the scam behind this one, you are going to get taken for a LOT of rides over your lifetime.

Because hot dog buns were invented by four pairs of conjoined twins, which means eight buns, silly.

White Diamond has said it might be a marketing ploy to buy a second package of hot dogs. I take it one step further. I have always believed it is a conspiracy to try to make you buy 10 packages of hot dog buns and 8 packages of hot dogs AT THE SAME TIME. Thus three groups benefit: the supermarket you buy the dogs and buns from, the comapany that sells the hot dogs, and the company that sells the hot dog buns. Never mind investigating the Dick Cheany/Halibuton connection, we should get urge congress to start an  investigation on this very troubling consumer rights issue.

Some people like to cut up a hot dog into macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, etc instead of putting it in a bun. Maybe the hot dog companies didn't want to discriminate against the people who don't want buns with their hot dog.

To account for the two dogs I'm gonna be slipping off the grill while I wait for the steak to medium up.

Marketing. They want you to buy enough crap to make the numbers even out.

I would try meditating on this but it would just make me hungry.

The Warner brothers (and the Warner sister) asked the Dali Llama this. Even he didn't know!

let me explain
they represent the difference of opinions between male and female
when it comes to sexual intercouse
the buns represent females
and the hotdogs represent the males
now there are plenty of males that want to engage in it
but a few females tend to dislike that idea
thus a larger count for hotdogs
and the lucky ones get a bun to go with them.

I lie awake wondering that often...

I thought it was a marketing conspiracy, too.  But, then I recall what happened the last time I tried to grill.  Maybe they expect a 20% burn rate for people like me.

Who knows what the other two hot dogs are used for...

Good question. I've wondered that myself.

For the true answer to this mystery, check out http://www.imbecility.com/hotdog.htm Seriously, this is the bun maker's doing. What do you expect from a baker who thinks a dozen is thirteen?

Depends where you live, some places don't have a 8 to 10 rule. But maybe some people want two hotdogs and some call just having a bun with tomato sauce a hotdog!

because nothing in life always works out so you should be happy with what youve got.

Because at least one or two people ALWAYS drop their hotdog on the ground.

I give up on buns I prefer toast ;)

Mainly so you'll buy a second package of hotdogs. It's a marketing ploy.

Here's a better one than that - when you buy a roll of stamps, why do they have them on backwards, so you have to unwind them with the wrong hand and peel them off upside down? If they'd make them the other way, it would be a lot easier to prepare mass mailings.