Detente has been brought to the hotdog world! (Chicago Tribune reg required.) Yes, the president of Vienna Beef talked with the president of S. Rosen Bakery, and S. Rosen is now going to be selling their hotdog buns in packages of 8 (and 16 at Costco) to match the standard eight hotdogs package.

It's the little things that make me happy.

Thank goodness the Chicago dog crisis is finally over!

It's the little things that make me happy.

Wrod.

The same number of dogs as buns! Madness!

The same number of dogs as buns! Madness!

It's never going to work. Those crazy kids.

The hot dog industry never did back down. Now what? Burger buns the same size as the burgers post-cooking?

That's just weird. Why can't things stay the same??

In other news, I'm watching old NYPD Blues, and Bobby Simone is short of breath. I hate this part. Did people know he was leaving the show when this storyline started?

The same number of dogs as buns! Madness!

And the little known 6th Horseman, known as Buns-and-Dogs, swings into the saddle . . .

Now what? Burger buns the same size as the burgers post-cooking?

I'd be happy if they just made the burger buns sturdier--mine always fall apart before you get halfway through the burger. That's why I usually buy kaiser rolls instead of burger buns.

Apropos of nothing, I feel the need to relate the tale of a pastrami sandwich I had one time. I went to my regular deli, and wanted pastrami, but like Kathy was concerned with dripping and falling-apart of lesser breads. So I asked for "pastrami on a kaiser." And the deli guys, Bostonians all, had no idea what I was talking about. I clarified "kaiser roll," and then, when they were still clueless, pointed at them on the shelf.

They said, "Ah, bulkie!" like sages, and made me my sandwich.

So, where is it that people say bulkie, and where do people say kaiser? And how did I not know that the twain do not meet in Boston's Back Bay?