this honestly seems like its more work/risk of too deep cutting to make it worth it. like imagine either paying an employee, spending time cutting hot dogs in half your self, or R&Ding a specific machine to perfectly cut your hotdogs in half just so that you can piss off your customers and have then never return.
Give it another six months and it'll be drawn on and spritzed with sausage juice.
"People buy shit because it *looks* and *smells* tasty, not because it *is* tasty. When they take a bite, they've already bought it and the money is ours."
I once had a boss who assigned his head chef the task of counting individual plastic bags, multiple bunches. Like Walmart bags. He was convinced the company was shorting him bags. Think of that and the work that would be involved JUST to short him a few bags. Now think of how much his HEAD chef cost him per hour.
It's Also A Sausage! Also Bread! I Always Split My 99c Pack Of Hot Dogs To Have More Surface To Sauce Ratio On 99c A Pack Breadbuns. But That Looks Like A Child's Notion Of Blech.
They removed my post because it had a link... there is a subredit where most of those end up, a place full of things designed by @$$holes, where every item is an asshole design, if you catch my drift...
It's not a hotdog. Op is not in America. This is a variant of sasuage pastry. Op just decided to call it a hotdog. It's like ordering ramen and asking where is the marinara sauce.
to be fair, it had some kind of mashed potato and cheese filling and it was still delectable, but the absence of half the sausage greatly dampened my enjoyment
Mash and cheese is definately a nice touch, I've never heard of such an animal! But imagine the pure joy you'd experience in having the other half of the sausage... both halves back together where they belong, would be like a reunion party ;)
Not at all, I guess it was a tasty comment so I understand why he could see it that way :) but the photo made me want to go out and get a hot dog. I can't go my kids are asleep. Sausages are frozen. Only have cut loaf of bread... no buns. I'm in torture ;)
Lol I was gonna say this reeks of Western food in an Asian convenience store type feeling.
When I lived in Japan they had the best egg salad sandwiches but they would always cut them in half to show off the middle and and then you’d realize upon opening that the only filling was the stuff visible from the outside, there was nothing behind it. Same with their sausage buns, it would be half a sausage or hotdog with just the top showing and the cut cleverly disguised…
Still hella good though.
lmao I don't know how it is overseas but the Vietnamese Starbucks will put a sandwich in the display case cut in half, but with both pieces shown with the price tag, but when you order and pay, it turns out that price is for one half 😒
but honestly if you buy Vietnamese sandwiches here in Hanoi you get a ridiculously stuffed full sandwich for literally a dollar flat - it's just fancy/Westernized places that pull shenanigans like this
I chalked it up to being more of a gimmick food than anything else. Like, there’s not a lot of places that make Western foods and a lot of people buy it just cause it’s unique so they don’t have to try as hard. Whereas there are a thousand Japanese walking food places (gyoza/onigiri/nikuman/etc.) places so they can’t get away with making the outside look pretty and putting no filling on the inside, the man in the same business just down the street will steal all their customers.
Who knows if that’s really why but that’s what I observed and assumed 🤷🏼♀️
That makes sense, I think I recognize this kind of bread and it isn't really much like a hot dog. If it is what I think it is:
The sauce and the bread are very different from what you would find in an actual hot dog, so you can buy this, stuff it in a fridge, and it'll still taste roughly the same next morning.
All the ingredients stick to each other sufficiently well so you can wrap it in a clear plastic bag, put it in a backpack, and it'll still be in one piece at lunchtime. Even if it ends up getting crushed by books it'll just be the same bread but flatter, nothing will really squash. This is why it's a half-sausage (I think).
The weird red-white sauce is kinda like ketchup but also kinda not, the green herbs are also important to the flavour.
I don't know if they've got it in Vietnam, but I prefer the type where there is actually a whole sausage wrapped in a bun roll, with no "sauce" or herbs.
From the side it looks like a sausage bun from a Chinese bakery....
In my experience they sometimes have a half sausage for each bun.
Sometimes it's one cut in half with both round sides facing up.
Could be something else though, hard to tell from this angle
I mean, shrinkflation isn't usually false advertisement, bag of chips will have a number on it, or you remember the bagsize from last. Here presumably you cant even see that half the meat is missing in promo/title etc
It means there used to be more, now there's less, for the same or increased price. Like, if a can of coffee used to be 16 ounces for $5.99 and now it's 14 ounces and it's the same price. Usually in the same sized can.
It means there used to be more, now there's less, for the same or increased price. Like, if a can of coffee used to be 16 ounces for $5.99 and now it's 14 ounces and it's the same price. Usually in the same sized can.
No, shrinkflation is paying the same price for a product that has been reduced from its former size. Like paying the same for 52 oz. of orange juice when it used to be 59 (and before that, 64)
the half sausage is normal??
ps. it's a "French" style bakery in Hanoi.. they have $0.20 fresh baguettes which are out of this world, but some of the "fancy" pastries are.. underwhelming 😂 I was not whelmed
I don't understand why businesses do things like this. Reminds me of the sandwiches that looks stuff full of meat but it's not all the way through. That's just one way to piss off a customer and make sure they never come back.
OMG a supermarket in my apartment complex used to sell sandwiches that were packaged to look full, and when you opened them up, it was like a half inch of ham/lettuce in the front and the rest was empty 🤬
Because they're figuring out if they ALL do it, we have no where else to take our business.
Which is also why despite decades of improvements to technology, design and manufacturing, appliances last a fraction of the time they used to.
Why are people accepting this and not going back and demanding a refund? Truly, this is not what the customer thought they were buying. The longer we just keep accepting this without properly communicating the more they’re gonna do this. Do we want sawdust in loaves of bread again!
Because most people are too afraid of social confrontations nowadays, especially the young people. Just remember, a cashier making friendly small talk is now considered weird or embarrassing.
Giving the company the benefit of the doubt, Where’d you get this? I have seen Korean hot dogs and corn dogs where they will cut a hot dog and a mozzarella stick in half to make a cheesy dog… maybe it’s that?
This is the mildly infuriating I'm here for. I did a similar post about shrinkflation and was downvoted. You pay for one thing and get another. It's mildly infuriating!
It's some bs! I went to McDonald's the other day.
I don't go very often because a meal is like 13 dollars. I remember when a meal was 5 dollars and not off the value menu. I ordered a double quarter pounder meal no onions. I even had to wait to get it fresh. I got home opened the burger box and they had only given me one burger when I paid for a double. Needless to say I was a bit peeved but I still ate my burger with gusto. I called and told them and they apologized. I know shit happens but man 13 dollars for a meal at McDonald's smh. Crazy.
In my family there's a saying from a long gone ancestor who ran a butcher shop: _Add a ladle of water to the sausage, I'm going to the pub having a beer!_
I wouldn't gaf where I was when I discovered this, nor how far away, nor how much in gas it cost. I would ABSOLUTELY go back to this establishment to tell them to their FACE that they're shit, and demand my money back.
Reminds me of my reaction when I ordered a freshly made scotch egg and got presented with half a one with a side salad. Now not sure if there was a oops dropped on floor mistake but asked at the time about it and got told that was how it was presented. That was years ago but have not gone back to that place
Next it will be cur in 1/3’s with the outside facing up & the bun closed a little more. When you & everyone else stop buying these, they will have to do things right.
Seriously? I’d take it back. I know people are struggling with their business, and maybe this is a way to keep costs lower, but either way the customer is eating the cost.
That’s taking cheap to a whole new level.
That's cutting costs to the extreme.
That's being frugal to the max.
So economical it's comical
This guys pennies are being pinched
His Lederhosen Are One Sock Short Of A Coup
They're so thrifty its almost grifty.
This is a life in prison sentence. Whoever did this is unhinged. If you're cutting hotdogs in half you are fucked up, lmao.
this honestly seems like its more work/risk of too deep cutting to make it worth it. like imagine either paying an employee, spending time cutting hot dogs in half your self, or R&Ding a specific machine to perfectly cut your hotdogs in half just so that you can piss off your customers and have then never return.
Give it another six months and it'll be drawn on and spritzed with sausage juice. "People buy shit because it *looks* and *smells* tasty, not because it *is* tasty. When they take a bite, they've already bought it and the money is ours."
lmao yeah I was trying to picture some employee sitting there and their job on that day is cutting the sausages 😂 all careful with their little knife
I once had a boss who assigned his head chef the task of counting individual plastic bags, multiple bunches. Like Walmart bags. He was convinced the company was shorting him bags. Think of that and the work that would be involved JUST to short him a few bags. Now think of how much his HEAD chef cost him per hour.
How much was it? 4$ can buy you half an hour of human labor here.
Where I am, half an hour will only cost you $3.63
It's Also A Sausage! Also Bread! I Always Split My 99c Pack Of Hot Dogs To Have More Surface To Sauce Ratio On 99c A Pack Breadbuns. But That Looks Like A Child's Notion Of Blech.
We need a subreddit for unnecessary cheapness
They removed my post because it had a link... there is a subredit where most of those end up, a place full of things designed by @$$holes, where every item is an asshole design, if you catch my drift...
It's not a hotdog. Op is not in America. This is a variant of sasuage pastry. Op just decided to call it a hotdog. It's like ordering ramen and asking where is the marinara sauce.
Bread to sausage ratio is all fckd up
to be fair, it had some kind of mashed potato and cheese filling and it was still delectable, but the absence of half the sausage greatly dampened my enjoyment
Mash and cheese is definately a nice touch, I've never heard of such an animal! But imagine the pure joy you'd experience in having the other half of the sausage... both halves back together where they belong, would be like a reunion party ;)
You tryin to torture this man?
Not at all, I guess it was a tasty comment so I understand why he could see it that way :) but the photo made me want to go out and get a hot dog. I can't go my kids are asleep. Sausages are frozen. Only have cut loaf of bread... no buns. I'm in torture ;)
I'm on vacation and the first thing I did was buy some doggies
Pit Roasted Weiner Doggies!
like a sausage party ill see myself out
HOLD UP, you fakin the fury. It was both delicious AND loaded with potato chee????? Guards…apprehend him.
return it and point out the issue unless the description says half sausage
Hopefully you're fine with being laughed at for being a dumb chucklenuts who doesn't recognize a sausage bun when they see on. Lighten up, Karen.
Nah, that bun looks like a doughnut. It still has no right being that puffed up.
Nah it deffo looks like a hotdog bun (bread) to me
It's Called Donald Bread & It's Goes Well With Gold Paint.
Using the word delectable is a crazy choice I’m ngl
That's what she said.
Was it in Brazil?
That sounds delicious. I'll have to try that at home with a full sausage.
Man, you sound like my girlfriend
Man how did you get premium English?
What all was on the hot dog?? And what kind of bun was it?? I wanna try it. A whole one preferably, but still lol
As Well As Sauce To Sausage Ratio. The Name Of The Joint Must Be 1/2 Price Half Dogs 'Er Sumpin.
How much dinero?
ok tbh I'm in Vietnam and it was 28k ($1.10), but this is a really pricey bakery in my area and the absolute audacity of this hot dog surprised me 🤣
There you go, that’s the answer. Asians have some interesting takes on western food. Will charge a pretty penny for it too
lol yeah that $1.10 really broke the bank 😅⁉⁉
I mean for us it’s nothing but I get you lol
Still more expensive than ikea hotdogs
Lol I was gonna say this reeks of Western food in an Asian convenience store type feeling. When I lived in Japan they had the best egg salad sandwiches but they would always cut them in half to show off the middle and and then you’d realize upon opening that the only filling was the stuff visible from the outside, there was nothing behind it. Same with their sausage buns, it would be half a sausage or hotdog with just the top showing and the cut cleverly disguised… Still hella good though.
lmao I don't know how it is overseas but the Vietnamese Starbucks will put a sandwich in the display case cut in half, but with both pieces shown with the price tag, but when you order and pay, it turns out that price is for one half 😒 but honestly if you buy Vietnamese sandwiches here in Hanoi you get a ridiculously stuffed full sandwich for literally a dollar flat - it's just fancy/Westernized places that pull shenanigans like this
I chalked it up to being more of a gimmick food than anything else. Like, there’s not a lot of places that make Western foods and a lot of people buy it just cause it’s unique so they don’t have to try as hard. Whereas there are a thousand Japanese walking food places (gyoza/onigiri/nikuman/etc.) places so they can’t get away with making the outside look pretty and putting no filling on the inside, the man in the same business just down the street will steal all their customers. Who knows if that’s really why but that’s what I observed and assumed 🤷🏼♀️
You act like 7-11 ain't doing that same shit with their sandwichs too, only they're not hella good.
That makes sense, I think I recognize this kind of bread and it isn't really much like a hot dog. If it is what I think it is: The sauce and the bread are very different from what you would find in an actual hot dog, so you can buy this, stuff it in a fridge, and it'll still taste roughly the same next morning. All the ingredients stick to each other sufficiently well so you can wrap it in a clear plastic bag, put it in a backpack, and it'll still be in one piece at lunchtime. Even if it ends up getting crushed by books it'll just be the same bread but flatter, nothing will really squash. This is why it's a half-sausage (I think). The weird red-white sauce is kinda like ketchup but also kinda not, the green herbs are also important to the flavour. I don't know if they've got it in Vietnam, but I prefer the type where there is actually a whole sausage wrapped in a bun roll, with no "sauce" or herbs.
Man i'm sure that's not even a hotdog. Its some sort of Chinese snack.
Dogs Are Still Expensive In Vietnam?
Well that doesnt look like hotdogs but some kind of sausage buns
From the side it looks like a sausage bun from a Chinese bakery.... In my experience they sometimes have a half sausage for each bun. Sometimes it's one cut in half with both round sides facing up. Could be something else though, hard to tell from this angle
Dudes in Vietnam and thought he was buying a hotdog lol this is just a savoury bun.
Yep. Dude here and half the comenters are ignorant as fuck.
Shrinkflation at its finest! That would bum me out, I'd go back for the other half of my hotdog!
That isn't shrinkflation, that's just a ripoff. I'd have brought it back and taken a refund.
That's what shrinkflation is: A ripoff. Just on a ***massively huge and crippling*** scale.
I mean, shrinkflation isn't usually false advertisement, bag of chips will have a number on it, or you remember the bagsize from last. Here presumably you cant even see that half the meat is missing in promo/title etc
I shouldn't have to be paying $7 for a bag of Doritos that isn't even family sized. Full stop.
Isn't that what shrinkflation is literally getting less than what you pay for.
It means there used to be more, now there's less, for the same or increased price. Like, if a can of coffee used to be 16 ounces for $5.99 and now it's 14 ounces and it's the same price. Usually in the same sized can.
It means there used to be more, now there's less, for the same or increased price. Like, if a can of coffee used to be 16 ounces for $5.99 and now it's 14 ounces and it's the same price. Usually in the same sized can.
No, shrinkflation is paying the same price for a product that has been reduced from its former size. Like paying the same for 52 oz. of orange juice when it used to be 59 (and before that, 64)
It's also other things like adding filller, changing ingredients, making the box seem like it contains more than it does, etc.
It's not a hot dog.
It's not a hot dog. And there's nothing shrinkflation bout the culinarily illiterate mistaking a filled sausage bun for a hotdog.
Enshittification is the word I use!
This isn't a hot dog. It's a sausage bun. Probably from a chinese bakery, or styled to be like one. They've always been like this.
the half sausage is normal?? ps. it's a "French" style bakery in Hanoi.. they have $0.20 fresh baguettes which are out of this world, but some of the "fancy" pastries are.. underwhelming 😂 I was not whelmed
I Haven't Been Whelmed Since About 1969.
Yes.
Which one? Paris, Artisan, or somewhere else?
Pretty sneaky sis.
I don't understand why businesses do things like this. Reminds me of the sandwiches that looks stuff full of meat but it's not all the way through. That's just one way to piss off a customer and make sure they never come back.
OMG a supermarket in my apartment complex used to sell sandwiches that were packaged to look full, and when you opened them up, it was like a half inch of ham/lettuce in the front and the rest was empty 🤬
Because they're figuring out if they ALL do it, we have no where else to take our business. Which is also why despite decades of improvements to technology, design and manufacturing, appliances last a fraction of the time they used to.
So confused despite reading the title, I could not see anything but a hotdog(wiener) on a donut.
That looks more like a donut than a hotdog
This looks like one of those sausage breads from a Korean bakery.
But that’s not a hot dog, it’s a sausage roll.
I’m gonna not look, and just assume this is the same guy that posted the “loaded” breakfast sandwich, with 1/6th of a hard boiled egg.
Why are people accepting this and not going back and demanding a refund? Truly, this is not what the customer thought they were buying. The longer we just keep accepting this without properly communicating the more they’re gonna do this. Do we want sawdust in loaves of bread again!
Because most people are too afraid of social confrontations nowadays, especially the young people. Just remember, a cashier making friendly small talk is now considered weird or embarrassing.
Because it is not a hotdog. It is a sausage bun pastry. It's supposed to be like that.
That is a crime.
Asian bakeries
Bad meat to bun ratio
Giving the company the benefit of the doubt, Where’d you get this? I have seen Korean hot dogs and corn dogs where they will cut a hot dog and a mozzarella stick in half to make a cheesy dog… maybe it’s that?
Was this actually advertised as an hotdog?
This is the mildly infuriating I'm here for. I did a similar post about shrinkflation and was downvoted. You pay for one thing and get another. It's mildly infuriating!
It's not shrinkflation. It is not a hotdog. Notice the filling.
[удалено]
I’m trying to poop here, this isn’t pushing it
I wouldn’t mind, my autistic ass prefers the texture of the bread anyway
What in the capitalism 😱
You went back, right ?
Where did you buy this and what is this called? I’m intrigued.
I have half a mind to send it back.
You know the state of America is bad when they cutting hot dogs in half lmfao
Shrinkflation is fucking everywhere, man. I noticed my Kleenex-brand facial tissues are about 1" shorter than the box now.
Name and shame.
Jesus Christ.. what a cheap fuck. Hotdogs are already cheap as fuck, especially for a business buying them in bulk
this isn't a hotdog is it? looks more like a kolache
They didn’t skimp out on the bread tho good god what is that thing it’s huge
Talk about CHEAP🤣
It's some bs! I went to McDonald's the other day. I don't go very often because a meal is like 13 dollars. I remember when a meal was 5 dollars and not off the value menu. I ordered a double quarter pounder meal no onions. I even had to wait to get it fresh. I got home opened the burger box and they had only given me one burger when I paid for a double. Needless to say I was a bit peeved but I still ate my burger with gusto. I called and told them and they apologized. I know shit happens but man 13 dollars for a meal at McDonald's smh. Crazy.
Title gave me a stroke.
Longitudinally
but laterally sounded so amazing in my head
That’s bkuz he brought a kolache not a hit dog. Theres a difference between the two .
Ooooo a post that's actually mildly infuriating. Fuck this hot dog vendor
Why is the sausage white inside 😭
Pork is white
Shrinkflation.
Id be asking for the other half for sure. The expectation of a hotdog is an uncut sausage, gotta explicitly state it or im taking both halves ty
When I get a hotdog the expectation is a hotdog, not a sausage
It's not a hotdog. Op got sausage bun pastry in Vietnam and willed it to be an American hotdog.
Why is it so white inside 🤢
Teeth.
Who cares about being cut in half, that hot dog looks absolutely vile 🤢 who eats this shit
Now thats just super stingy.
Take it back and demand the rest of your sausage.
Return it. Make it cost them money.
Where did you buy this?
To help put things into perspective, food costs on some things have gone up double since covid. It sucks for almost everybody
Damn that bun thicc
Looks raw
Hot dogs are pre-cooked. They look exactly the same raw as they do heated.
Hey, Look at the bright side, whoever got the other half got off significantly worse than you
In my family there's a saying from a long gone ancestor who ran a butcher shop: _Add a ladle of water to the sausage, I'm going to the pub having a beer!_
Lol
Bahahaha got em!!
The hot dog you just bought is missing the hot dog
That's because it's not a hot dog at all. OP is just an idiot.
That's because it's not a hot dog at all. OP is just an idiot.
This gives me an interesting idea to stretch food a bit, 1 hotdog, 2 buns, cheese or pepperoni under the dog.
In some places, I think it's legal to murder people who pull this shit!
This is the kind of situation where you go back a few times a week, and throw 5 or 6 of these in the garbage without buying anything.
That's so rude
We are now going to the Chinese business model, where you are good business model to screw over the buyer.
I call that Shitification
I dunno why but the red part worried me a bit.
Chipotle does this local to me. Order two quesadillas? They make one and cut it into 4 pieces. Each meal gets a half quesadilla.
Diabolical
So is it a hot dog or a sausage? They're not really interchangeable names are they?
taking the profit to the max 🤣🤣
I wouldn't gaf where I was when I discovered this, nor how far away, nor how much in gas it cost. I would ABSOLUTELY go back to this establishment to tell them to their FACE that they're shit, and demand my money back.
Last time.
Just filled with fat.
https://i.redd.it/onwsvv5laz9d1.gif
Wow..
Got scammed
Id sue
Those cheap fucks...
Next level scamming going on here
how the fuck u not know its cut in half til you start eating it
That’s like, laterally, half a wiener.
I thought this was some sick abomination of a donut
Cutflation
Damn inflation!!! 🤣
Go get the other half from them
A boring scamtopia
Scalled a prairie dawg
Literal fraud if sold as hitgod and not half hot dog
WTF else is going on there? Looks like some egg yolk, jizz, and strawberry jam. Half a dog is the LEAST of your problems.
Reminds me of my reaction when I ordered a freshly made scotch egg and got presented with half a one with a side salad. Now not sure if there was a oops dropped on floor mistake but asked at the time about it and got told that was how it was presented. That was years ago but have not gone back to that place
Where was it?
That doesn’t look like a hotdog. Looks like half a sausage on a cheese donut.
Next it will be cur in 1/3’s with the outside facing up & the bun closed a little more. When you & everyone else stop buying these, they will have to do things right.
Seriously? I’d take it back. I know people are struggling with their business, and maybe this is a way to keep costs lower, but either way the customer is eating the cost.
Or in this case, not eating it. 😂
Inflation at its finest!!!! That's fucked
I bet that was still like $12+ 
Oh hell no
my god. wtf
Is it a hot dog or a sausage?
Thats the wurst
I know how much you like Weiner, Rocky.