Wienermobile Down!
What matters is not that the Wienermobile tipped over. What matters is that the hot-dog-on-wheels got back up.
As you may have heard, a terrible turn of events befell one of Oscar Mayer’s mobile tubesteaks. In the late morning of July 22, a cocktail-sized Wienermobile (relative to usual promotional size) crashed into a Hyundai sedan on a Chicago-area highway, the Illinois State Police told NBC Chicago. It was subsequently towed away on a semi-truck flatbread flatbed. Based on available images, this model appears to be based on an early-BMW-era Mini Cooper.
Reports indicate that the professional sausage pilot, after impact, overcorrected in an attempt to regain control. “That center of meat is way high up, which makes it hard to handle,” says Hagerty Chassis and Natural Casing Engineer Frank Furter. “At that speed, we can only assume nitrates were involved.”
Bonus footage of occupants exiting the mini Wienermobile for your viewing pleasure. pic.twitter.com/AOJJC01g1p
— CHICAGO CRITTER (@ChicagoCritter) July 23, 2024
As a Weiner myself, this one hits home. You hate to see a fallen compatriot, rich in saturated fat or not. Regular readers may recall that I last jousted with the marketing wonks at Oscar Mayer last year, when the brand announced it was changing the Wienermobile’s name to “Frankmobile.” Oscar Mayer, as many predicted, never intended to keep the name in the first place; the switch only lasted four months, long enough to generate headlines and get the word out about the new, 100-percent-beef hot dog recipe.
Marketing stunts like that don’t cut the mustard with me, but I don’t relish seeing the Wienermobile toppled like it was this week. Here’s hoping the pig spends some time recovering in a warm blanket before it’s back on the road, good as new.
Sorry that is not a Wiener mobile. That is a Vienna Sausage mobile.
No, really, it’s Oscar Meyer’s marketing-mobile.
In a “the world can’t really be this small” moment, a friend of mine was involved in this crash. Thankfully his injuries are minor.
Sorry your friend took a turn for the Wurst…
Really, Jeff, really? Ya just had to hotdoggit in front of everyone, didn’t you?!?
N’yuk…as the original Stooges usta say!!!
It must have been on its way to a picnic. Had it been returning, the road would be slick from mustard and relish.
Eric, enough with the puns, already. I demand that you a-bun-don this style of storytelling…
When I was in the Air Force, I worked with (for really) a two-star general whose daughter drove a weinermobile as a university intern.
She liked the job, no doubt good marketing, media relations and good old “meeting people” training.
Hey Eric, at least it’s not the Weinermobile down!
Chicago traffic is almost suicidal in driving style and combined with the never ending construction it stinks!
I spend the last 10 days in Chicago, I’m always glad when I leave it’s crappy drivers behind.
Lucky you. I live here. I can’t leave the crappy drivers behind. (Of course I’m not one of them).
Right back up after about 15 minutes!
Applause.
Maybe it hit the taint too hard and crashed 🤔
Original weiner mobile was designed and built in Milwaukee WI, by designers of Brook Steve’s.
The best and most original news article that I have ever read!!! Too darn funny! Good job! 🤣
I live in Chicago, everyone who couldn’t use the highway definitely got the sausage that morning!
These are public roads, no place to be out hot-dogging around ..
I am from the Milwaukee area and one of my former students spent a fun summer driving the WeinerMobile–built by Brock Stevens.
I wonder if the driver got grilled by management afterwards… 😜
Did the 10 second rule apply?
I’ll just go out on a bun and say that was the most corn-dog story I’ve ever read.