Is that a hotdog on your highway…

….or are you just happy to see me?

My Wienermobile has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R.

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A couple of times while traveling the roadways of the U.S., Tom and I have happened across the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. The Wienermobile has been around for seventy years–that’s twice as long as me! Or five times as long as me, if you’re measuring space and not my creative sense of time.

The Wienermobile is driven by Hotdoggers, recently graduated college students who tour it around the country for a year. Dan Duff, a Hotdogger alum, shares an incident with Jon Stewart and the Wienermobile here. You can get a virtual tour of the Wienermobile on this site, and you can follow it on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wienermobile.

Hawaii wants the Wienermobile banned in their state because of a law forbidding advertising on billboards and vehicles. I personally think the Aloha State is in a conspiracy with Armour Hot Dogs and those big kids, little kids, and kids who climb on rocks.

10 thoughts on “Is that a hotdog on your highway…”

  1. I think the hawaiian ban is linked to the folks at SPAM — because really, the wienermobile is way cooler then and Spammobile could ever be.

    And how have you happened across the weinermobile – I have never ever seen it

    1. You probably ignored it just like my LJ banner. We saw it once heading to OH and once on the road from AL to TX.

      I’ve also seen it when I was alone in a grocery store parking lot in AL.

  2. Somehow when I see one of today’s Wienermobiles I think of a giant spaceworm. They just don’t have the panache of the original that looked like a hotdog on wheels.

    But then today’s hotdogs don’t taste like the one’s I ate at my grandma’s when I was a kid either. Skinless hotdogs just don’t cut the mustard.

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