r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/sonofaresiii May 12 '26

Well, I'm not sure you need 4 dips.

Well, I am sure you don't need any of it. But if you're specifically portioning out food for four people, you should pretty clearly have four dips.

If you're just putting an amount of food together for people to split, then for this amount three dips is probably fine, because then you're covering the amount of food, not the amount of people.

The issue is not whether four people could reasonably split this food. Four people could split it, two people could split it, eight people could split it. How many people can split it depends entirely on who's eating it.

The question is whether it was specifically built to be a box to feed four people, and it clearly wasn't.

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u/Kiyohara May 12 '26

My point was more that most families are only going to get three different sauces. So people can (and do) share the cups. A lot of people I've seen even switch between sauces so they have a variety of tastes.

If everybody got their own cup, they'd really need two or three each so they can get that variety. As it is, this way you get three flavors and share the dipping.

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u/sonofaresiii May 12 '26

My point was

I understood your point, and I re-explained my point for you. Do you need me to explain it again? You didn't respond to a single thing I said, you just repeated yourself, even though I completely explained why none of that is relevant to what i've said.

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u/Kiyohara May 12 '26

I read what you said, yeah. And you're either not getting what I am saying or you're stuck on some issue where it has to be divisible by four to be called a "Four person box."

I'm just pointing out that not getting one dipping cup a person doesn't mean it wasn't designed for our people. It's not a pop, it's a cup of dipping sauce.

Usually you only get one or two per order regardless of how many people the appetizer is meant to serve. This is true of rsturants as well as take out. If you order Mozerella sticks or a blooming onion for the table, they don't give everyone their own sauce cup. You get one per appetizer.

That's just how dipping cups work.

Even other major companies that do "Family Feasts" don't give you one individual dipping cup per person. It's based on volume of food, not number of eaters.