Friday, May 20, 2005

Peace Has Been Declared...

...between Vienna Beef and Alpha Baking Company! If you live in the Chicago area, you will no longer have to buy twenty-four hotdogs and buns in order to have an even number. Now you will be able to purchase only one package of eight hotdogs and one package of eight buns and that will be it!

I'm not sure why this classifies as news because I bought an eight-pack of hotdogs and an eight-pack of buns at my local grocery last weekend. I mean I know that this has been a staple joke of observational comedians for years but I just don't really remember it ever being a real problem. Apparently it is though since the packaging inequality results in a waste of over 2 million buns a year.

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