I am at the Australian Open, and being peckish as rabid woodpecker, I purchased the most ozbargain friendly item available. A hot dog. Get back to my seat. Open hot dog. No sauce. As everyone knows, a hot dog without sauce is not fit for purpose. I take the hot dog back and enquire about the sauce. The girl looks at me like she’s never even heard of sauce, but enquires and discovers that there is sauce behind the register. I get given sauce (free to their credit) and go back to my seat. By this time my hot dog is cold. Should I take my hot dog back for a replacement for refund because it is cold (through no fault of my own)?
Should I Return a Faulty Hot Dog?
djsweet on 16/01/2023 - 21:09
Poll Options
- 51Yes, take the hot dog back
- 315No, eat the cold hot dog and be utterly miserable
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I would, but talking is not permitted
Kyrgios has withdrawn..should be safe enough…
Why didn't you get the sauce in the first place?
Like any normal person I assumed it came with sauce since there was no sauce visibly displayed.
Like any normal person
That is not normal…
Sauce is something that you always add at pretty much every sport I've bought one.
Read the T&Cs for your purchase.
@djsweet: On your side here, haven't had a hotdog since I learned they acutally contain real dog, but in my younger days THEY ALWAYS CAME WITH SAUCE.
@djsweet: Like all my most important life lessons, this one is learnt at Bunnings.
At the sausage sizzle you add the sauce yourself from the selection of condiments at the collection table.
Though poor form from the vendor that the sauce was not in a visible and easily reachable position.
@djsweet: a bunnings sausage sizzle on a weekend is the one defining feature of Australian culture.
if sauce is from a sachet/container (at events/etc) … i like to put the sauce on at each bite - but that's just me … I also tend to get 2 sachets - as one isn't enough to get proper coverage.
@simplystu: my local bunnings hasnt had a sausage sizzle for 3 weekends in a row!
I actually went there one weekend just to get a hotdog!@simplystu: Yeah me too. I like to apply as I eat where possible to get max sauce contact. And yeah those single serve sauces are waaaay too small
@djsweet: You would have been given sauce had you ordered a pie or sausage roll. By ordering a hot dog you looked like a seppo and no sauce was provided.
To be fair, I would have assumed that you could only purchase a polo Ralph Lauren sauce for another $20 for a squeeze on.
since when is sauce normal? it is nearly always an optional extra, usually free sometimes at cost. some people don't like or want sauce or have issues with the additives in them.
I’d say id you had an issue with additives you probably wouldn’t be eating a hot dog to begin with.
@djsweet: people like my sister have a reaction to certain additives, they tend to be extremely common in sauces and certain foods but not in processed meats.
So you took the hotdog in hand and walked back to your seat without looking at it? Was it wrapped up? How did you not see the lack of sauce?
It was fully wrapped up in a foil bag. No way to see a critical ingredient was missing. No sauce dispensers in sight. No single serve sauces around either. Naturally I assumed the sauce was already inside
@djsweet: Why would you assume that? Have you ever bought a hot dog or sausage with sauce already applied? Have you been to a Bunnings or Ikea? How would they know whether a customer prefers tomato, bbq, mustard, etc. And you didn't think it odd they didn't ask?
I don't like tomato sauce, and therefore never put it on a hotdog, and have never been served one with sauce on it, as I would remember that because I wouldn't have eaten it.
You do you mate. Regardless, I find it difficult to get my head around the fact that someone would find a naked hot dog less offensive than one smothered in sauce.
If it was a chilli sauce, yeah, sure, i'm down. Tomato sauce is gag inducing for me, I just can't handle it, and it dominates anything it even slightly touches. So anything that typically has it on, EG: Pies, Sausages, Hotdogs, i eat without the sauce.
@witheredcouch: That’s kind of the point though. Sauce covers up the taste. A naked hot dog tastes like a$$. Have you been eating Fountain sauce maybe. That stuff is the most astringent revolting substance I have had the displeasure of tasting. I would (and have) literally skip lunch if I was at a sausage sizzle where fountain was the only sauce option.
@djsweet: All the commercially made tomato sauces taste/smell exactly the same to me, and ruin anything they touch. I personally quite like the taste of a hotdog, but i guess I had to develop that taste as it would have been the choice between eating it without sauce, or not at all, as tomato sauce makes me vomit.
Just watch the tennis
which sporting venue sells hot dogs with the sauce already on them? you've wasted more time posting this when you could have been eating it.
To be fair, who wants to eat a cold hot dog
There's a microwave in the parent's room…
Touché
Faulty Hot Dog
Was there a knob on one end? Did you start eating from that end first?
I think you'd need BALLS to ask for a new one.
It was, I agree bad SERVICE to miss the saucy goodness.
Probably very busy so no FAULT on their side
🎾🎾🎾CHECK MATE!
Oh wait…
He thinks he's been clever
I bet he found all of those on the NET
Are you there now? Do the OzBargain secret wave on the camera.
I’m the person staring at their phone with a look of deep regret and sadness on their face, and no hot dog in hand
Pretty much the same reaction we all have when we miss out on an OzBargain deal!
Do the OzBargain secret wave on the camera.
Does it involve drawing out a dollar sign in the air?
and be utterly miserable
There’s a chance that occurred well prior to the hotdog…
Can’t argue with that. Sadness is a spiral
Quit the processed foods for a month and you’ll be happier…
Health life > bargain life?
He got free sauce, he should be stoked.
Update: after consultation with the ozbargain community (however skewed it may have been by those thinking this is some kind of joke - the matter is quite serious), I have eaten the hot dog.
I have eaten the hot dog.
Your body will be warming it up now.
Who cares…
By this time my hot dog is cold. Should I take my hot dog back for a replacement for refund because it is cold (through no fault of my own)?
Well it was 'hot' when it was given to you.
Sauces are ALWAYS extra….. So unless you asked/checked, you got what you paid for.
Costco disagrees.
Costco disagrees.
Well Costco doesn't serve them with sauce on it like the OP thinks should have happened… You have to go get it yourself, as an…… extra…. add on step.
Thought you meant extra as in extra cost, but yes you are right that you DIY.
Out of all the sauces I can think of which would go well on a hot dog which one did you expect would be default on every one?
The smartest thing to do would be to eat the hot dog despite it having no sauce so that you can enjoy it hot, then go back and buy another hot dog and make sure it has sauce on it, then eat that too, to make up for the first hot dog.
Then, and only then, would you have been truly satisfied.
Wise words from someone who has been there before. I appreciate it :)
Keep it between your buns.
Spicy! Not the type of hot I was thinking but… horses for courses..
I like your attitude and willingness to try new things. Cold hotdogs, bun warmed hitdogs and all. I also think that any person that buys a takeaway hotdog at a sporting event WITHOUT tomato sauce, is a lunatic.
Faulty is not the right word
"The Bear" covered this:
Richie: "What kind of assxxxx is going to put ketchup on a hotdog?"
Carmen: "A child, Richie." … they were catering for a child's birthday.This post is just unaustralian.
faulty hot dog
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I would coat the hotdog sausage in dog poo, give it to one of your siblings, and say “does this taste faulty to you?”
How long was the hot doggie?
Did you eat it end-to-end or sideways?
https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-election-201…
It cost him the election.
I mean who could vote for him after witnessing that?
He didn't want upset either the right or left factions.
🤣
Not a true ozbargainer
A. You can afford to go to the tennis
B. You paid for a sporting event hotdog that's probably more than a takeaway mealOne of the annoying thing with pizza in Costco these days where the ingredients are scattered a lot in the centre leaving just bread in around 30% near the crust. If you want to change it, you don't touch the plate, if you do, they will change it and throw away the first one. As all the slices are the same, I told them the issue and still keep the pizza slice.
What about the mustard?
Nice to have, but personally I don’t consider it essential for consumption. They did not even have mustard available at all. Sad but true
That's definitely messed up.
Did i read that right? "A faulty hot dog"?
It's 100% your fault.
You should check the product before leaving the store.
I'm guessing Marnus Labuschagne would approve of the cold hotdog…
If cold, bring the temp up by inserting it somewhere warm prior to consumption.
Rub wiener on your wiener to warm it up to desired eating temperature.
Your parents should have returned you.
Apparently there was no refund on clearance items
A lot of people here would, quite sensibly, advocate for the involvement of bikies in trivial matters such as this. However, I feel that it would be mistake in this instance. Clearly this is a job for tennis great Margaret Court. She'd have the right connections, has strong opinions on private matters that affect her in no way whatsoever and feels it's her place to dictate what others should be doing with their wiener. This is exactly in her wheelhouse. So I'd fire off an email her way first.
I'd also get on to Bob Jane to see if he can pull some strings and get the Michelin stars revoked for that hot dog stand.
This is mostly on you OP, but I can understand how you may have at least expected there to be visible sauce packets or a communal sauce dispenser. Hot dogs include the sauce in the price (unlike hot chips) but would never default to having it on in case someone wanted BBQ sauce, or mustard or just no sauce. I could also see how there might be an expectation that they ask you whether you want sauce that would be good customer service. Generalising here but priority at sporting events is usually speed rather than level of service.
Shove it up your arse. Should heat it up nice and quick
Hawt
I don't understand tennis. I used to like it, but then I realised how slow it is, not just stoppages after every point but even after a fault, the server bounces the ball about 15 times before 2nd time. Also, why the need to be quiet? In cricket, batsmen have a much harder, much more dangerous ball aimed at them and receive no end of abuse. And who wants to pay money to go to the game to then have to be quiet?
Complains about too many stoppages and then infers that cricket is superior…. hmmm.
To answer the need to be quiet in tennis; in cricket the batsman is a hell of a lot further from the crowd than a tennis player. You only need to be quiet when the ball is in play (or they're about to serve) so you can talk as much as you like during the frequent stoppages in play.
Cricket has stoppages, but tennis seems a lot worse to me. It just seems to take ages, but maybe just my perception. Could also be how I watch cricket (where I just tune in for periods at a time, rather than watching the whole match). The only sport I truly enjoy is football, which is pretty continuous.
So now we’re getting Ozbargain to make every little decision in our lives?
You must be new here… oh wait
Nick, you should probably concentrate on your match and stop eating hot dogs.
Hard truths
Why didn't you sit on the hotdog to warm it up?
Good point. Wouldn’t have to worry about sauce going on my pants, and a flat hot dog is probably no worse than a standard issue hot dog. I’ll keep that suggestion in my back pocket (pun intended) for next time
Added benefit is that you'll gain a bit of additional height to see more of the tennis.
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Talk to it… Should warm it up quickly…