£8 for a naked hotdog

[AlpineMuesli]

Went to an event and the hotdog stand was charging £8 for a hotdog sausage in a dry bun. £9 for one with onions.

Would you willingly pay that? (People were, it was the only non-spicy food option.)

I think YABU for using the expression "naked hotdog".

Absolutely not. It’s the same at Christmas markets - £6 for a German sausage last year that you can buy in. Six pack for £2.40 at Tesco.

It depends on the event - can you bring your own or eat before you go there? Prices are absolutely silly and it’s prohibitive for a family to spend that sort of money.

😂 Nude? Untopped?

plain?

Plain? 🤣🤣

No I wouldn't pay it, just like I wouldn't pay £7 for a tiny carton of fries at the 02 Arena.

I'd only buy that if I was extremely hungry and there was no other options.

Food at an event does tend to be expensive so if I was hungry, I would.

I probably would - not a hot dog, but a pop up stand at an event has significantly higher costs than a hot dog stand in a town centre or market place. Entry fees for traders are usually £50-£100 for the day (conservatively in my area), travel costs are high, staff costs are higher (minimum wage has increased and h&s means they have to set up before the event opens and can't leave until it finishes), VAT on the hot dog at 20%.

I thought you might be talking about our local pub who sell a hotdog without a bun as a bar snack at £8 .... but sell the same hotdog with ALL the condiments plus bun and fries as a meal for £9.

Nothing new and this is one of the reasons we dont go to rip-off places like this. Its not the hotdog vendors fault as they are charged a lot of money for the pitch

I've heard friends say the price of xxx at xxx was shockingly high - I just say, dont buy or dont got there or put up with it.

Also in terms of pop up shops- in our area we have a major festival every year. The prices are fucking mental and one of my friends was planning to do a pop-up shop for the honey she makes..... but the venue was charging £2,000 for the week for her to put up a stand. Actually it was 5 days including set up and set down. That's an awful lot of £5 jars of honey she needs to sell before it is worth her while. Might be the same with hotdogs.

Crazy. IMO.

I don't mind spending that sort of money on something a bit more interesting. At an event with food trucks, I'd happily spend £8/9 on a really tasty sandwich or burger. But a plain hotdog in a bun sounds horribly bland and dry.

Same here. But whatever the venue, that sounds ridiculous, they weren't even that much in Iceland, which is famously expensive.

But we still didn't buy them because, despite everyone saying 'you've got to get a hot dog in Reykjavik, all the locals love the hot dogs, they're the best', when I saw them, they looked exactly like those you get in Ikea for about 60 p, so we got slices of pizza from the convenience store down the road and they were pretty good.

£10 for a plain jacket potato at the Needles visitor centre. Totally plain, not even butter.

can't quite get over that.

Naked (in this setting) means without the bun

pretty standard price with a bun at events, festivals etc

Well that’s smacked my gob.

I bought a topped hotdog for £9 but declined the £4.30 coffee as I’d brought water.

It was just a sort of country fair, the kind of thing you drive past and think, oh let’s pop in.

I think the answer is probably yes, I would, if I was hungry and I wanted something to eat. That doesn’t mean I think it’s not a rip off, but I accept that’s how much food is at a gig or event.

This really.

The overheads are probably enormous.

That said - a dry hotdog sounds rubbish - the offerings should still be quality and appropriate. Just charge £8.50 and offer put onions and sauces for all - makes a difference to customer perception.

Sounds like they had been taking advice from The Apprentice!

It's stupid comparing the price of cooked food you buy when you're out an about to how much the raw ingredients costs in a supermarket.

You have people there cooking/preparing the food, and all the other costs associated with it, fuel, pitch costs, ingredients, transport .

Fair enough if you think it's too expensive then don't buy it.

I honestly thought a 'naked' hotdog would be some new hipster term for an overpriced sausage with no bun, that's just slapped into your hand, or maybe juxtaposed on a tree stump, chunk of slate or in an old boot.

No. Rip off.

It's a lot but I don't think it's unusual. The raw ingredients are just a tiny part of the cost. Caterers at events usually pay quite a lot to be there and have to recoup that as well as all their other overheads.

It's completely irrelevant what you can buy them for at the shops. They aren't just charging you for the cost of a single hotdog, I've never understood this argument against food places cos the costs are absolutely wild for the seller.

Though I agree in this case it seems expensive

Yeah no that's ridiculous, it would mean I should be charging 30 quid a dish for what I do in terms of base costs & time.

I don't think it's worth it because there's no effort or 'quality' involved. It's just a crap sausage in a crap bun.

Whereas if you had something like Thai or mezze where there was lots of different flavours, specialist ingredients and home made sauces etc, it's a lot harder to recreate at home so worth paying someone else to do it for you.