Epic Win: Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
Submitted by katsak
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I truly want to be
‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.
Who tried out to be an Oscar Mayer Wiener kid? Epic childhood if you showed up at the auditions and sang the song!
From Wikipedia:
A “Wienermobile” is an automobile shaped like a hot dog on a bun that is used to promote and advertise Oscar Mayer products. It was created in 1936 by Oscar’s nephew, Carl G. Mayer, and variants are still used by Oscar Mayer today. In 2004, Oscar Mayer announced a contest whereby customers could win the right to use the Wienermobile for a day. Within a month, the contest had generated over 15,000 entries. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as Wienerwhistles.
I did try out and was subsequently tramatized by the women from PETA who showed up in bikinis with posters of the slaughterhouse and disected pigs. Bleck. But I digress…. Do you know the second verse to the song?
Oh I’m glad I’m not an Oscar Mayer weiner.
That is what I’d never want to be.
‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner,
There would be nothing left of me.
YUK!
I know what you mean. I nearly barfed when I saw it.
That’s nothing you want to see.
Nature wasn’t meant to have any life form abused at that.
You just can’t present such an anemic corpse in a bikini!
Get some iron, bitches!
Actually, I think the last line was:
There would soon be nothing left of me.
Hey im first! i saw one of these the other day
never mind im not
THAT THING IS AS BIG AS MY-
- inadequacy complex?
Just saw this yesterday driving through town!
Where are you from? I saw one at work yesterday (South San Francisco)!!!!11
My hubby and I had a hit-and-run wedding in front of the Wienermobile at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
COOOOOLLLLL!!!! I live near “The Henry Ford” as they call it now, and there is one parked inside. You can get really close up to it a get great pictures. It’s parked near one of the cafeterias, and the hot dog smells waft around and you would swear it’s coming from inside the Weinermobile. Actually, on the descriptive plaque it states that there were vents to let out the hot dog smells that ocurred when they gave out free hot dogs.
Yup, that’s the one we were married in front on 2/2/04
We’re still in the area too. We live in Southfield.
We had the Commonwealth games here in 1994 (Vic BC Canada) and this was here for the duration, got me a weiner whistle, and a ride as well. REALLY cool, driving down the highway blasting on the whistle.
Yeah I got to go for a ride in one before too, It was a mess.
When me and my sister were little our parents made us remember the oscar mayer songs for the auditions. I was gonna sing the first one, the one everyone knows, and my sister was gonna sing the bologna song. Sadly we didnt make it to the auditions and we never got the change to sing. Now I know both the songs and I can never forget them. On a good note, I’ve seen one of those wienermobiles on the high way one time while driving with my dad. We honked at it lol,
This isn’t nostalgia…we see it fairly regularly up at the local Price Chopper. Well, fairly regularly in at least once every couple of years or so…
It’s nostalgia if it existed before 2000. A lot of things that show up here are still in use/being produced.
Nostalgia is a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. Something that we have now we do not feel a yearning for, or we wouldn’t have it. There is no past period when it exists in the present. It is not an irrecoverable condition if it still exists. Nostalgia doesn’t have a specific timeframe (i.e. before 2000), but is more of a state of mind. Therefore, you can have nostalgia from something last month, as long as it is something that you can never get back to. The weinermoblie, specifically, still exists. Therefore, to have nostalgia of something that exists is to use the wrong word to define what it is you have. You may have good memories of the weinermobile as a youth, but you can relive those memories even today, so it wouldn’t be defined as nostalgia…unless…there is absolutely no way that you could ever see it again. Perhaps if you have become a blind, deaf, mute…that might work.
Of course, this is the www, so it won’t be long before someone comes along and tries to argue it…we can’t let anything like “generally accepted definitions of words” or “common sense” get in the way of a good argument. There’s always one…
Here’s the definition of Nostalgia that I found:
“A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.”
The word “Irrecoverable” is nowhere to be found.
Did you look into the origin of the word Nostalgia?
The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form. The word is made up of two Greek roots (νόστος nostos “returning home”, and άλγος algos “pain”), to refer to “the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native home, and fears never to see it again”. It was described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy, in the Early Modern period, and came to be an important topic in Romanticism.
Again, nothing about having to be “Irrecoverable”.
I checked my Random House Dictionary and my American Heritage Dictionary and neither of them used the word Irrecoverable as part of the definition for Nostalgia.
In your posted you quoted the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
“1: the state of being homesick : homesickness”
“2: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia.”
“OR irrecoverable”. “OR”! It does not HAVE to be irrecoverable!
So yes! you CAN have nostalgia for something that sill exists.
“Nostalgia doesn’t have a specific time frame (i.e. before 2000)”
For the purposes of THIS WEBSITE Pre-2000 qualifies as nostalgic.
Of course, this is the www, so it won’t be long before someone comes along and tries to argue it…we can’t let anything like “generally accepted definitions of words” or “common sense” get in the way of a good argument. There’s always one…
Thanks for proving my point.
its not, stuff from the 70s, 80s and before is nostalgia.
“its not, stuff from the 70s, 80s and before is nostalgia.”
Meowcat2, please read the Submission Tips near the top of this page. Number three specifically.
I go to school with the son of the guy who designed it. He also designed the hershey’s-kiss-mobile, the Planter’s Peanutmobile, and some other things like that. Pretty cool.
I took a walk around town once and just randomly found the Wienermobile parked in the middle of the road. It was the best day ever.
Awww, my dad always used to sing that song to me and my sister when we were kids! (I am from Europe but my dad is from the USA and we had no idea what an Oscar Meier Wiener was… I just made one big nonexistant word out of it until years later, when I found out what he meant
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LOL sorry I meant Oscar Mayer of course
The one and only time I saw this was in Connecticut about 1996, we were with a foreign exchange student who upon seeing exclaimed “Oh God…. only Americans…”
The Toho sci-fi flick “Battle In Outer Space (Uchu Daisenso)” features a pair of “moonbus” vehicles that unfortunately resemble the OMWM. When it had a special showing in San Francisco, the audience broke into (a certain related) song.
http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/BattleinOuterSpace.html
(scroll about halfway down)
Everytime I see this vehicle I think of that Sylvester Stalone movie.
When I was a child, I wanted to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I thought it would be the coolest thing ever. My childhood dreams haven’t changed much: I still want to drive it! XD
I saw one of these in the parking lot of a hotel a few months ago. I still don’t know why it was there.
The people who drive the wienermobiles (“hotdoggers”) travel and stay in hotels every night.
Oh! One time I saw The Magic School Bus! On the highway! A school bus painted up to look like it with the kids and the teacher painted on the windows. Epic!
The Oscar nominees from PIXAR rent the Wienermobile to ride to the awards ceremony every year instead of a limo.
Classy.
Apparently they are still out there on tour. I saw one at WalMart a few months ago.
And then there’s the old joke – aimed at 10-year-olds:
A man found a lamp on the beach. He rubbed it and a Jeanie appeared.
The Jeanie said “I will grant you 3 wishes. What do you desire”
The man asked for a new car and$1,000,000, which appeared immediately.
Then the man said “I don’t know what I want for my third wish. Can I tell you later? The Jeanie said “ok”
So now the man is driving down the highway in his new car with $1,000,000 in the trunk. He is happy as can be. So happy he’s singing along with the radio. He’s even singing along with the commercials.
“Oh I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner……
I saw the wienermobile in canada when i was about 13 or 14 and I got a wiener whistle. It was the highlight of my vacation.
Alas in Aus no child was so lucky.
I spotted the wiener-mobile a few months back and all of a sudden all of these adults turned into 10 year olds screaming “It’s the Oscar Meyer weenie’! Funny how there’s a little kid in all of us =-)
My brothers and I each had a piggy bank of the Weinermobile…I think we may still have one of them around
When I was three years old my mom took me grocery shopping and on the way back home I saw an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile and shrieked with delight. I begged my mom to take me to it but she said that we had to be home because the food needed to be refridgerated. We lived about a half an hour away from where the Weinermobile was parked, and I cried, begged, and pleaded until my mom took me all the way back to have my picture taken in front of it. Best day of my life.
Funny thing is my sister and I both tried out for the auditions. Actually it might have been all my siblings. Lots of fun. I love the wiener mobile. I don’t see it around any more. Not even on the highway.
Once, when i was driving home on a long road trip after a family vacation, it was just my mom and my dad and I awake. My siblings had both fallen asleep. I was looking out the window, complaining how boring this ride was, when all of a sudden, the vehicle behind me was a hot dog! turned out it was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile! Coolest family trip to this day. And my poor brother and sister don’t believe it happened!
When I was a sophmore in High School the weinermobile came to the elementary school which was just across the sports fields. My whole honors geometry class was so distracted our teacher let us leave class to walk over there and see it. She also email’d the comany and got us all wenie whistles. Best day of school ever
my husband was doing a job and found an oscar meyer piggy bank.they tossed it in the trash. was wondering if it’s worth anything.it’s pretty cool looking. never did see things like that growing up. so, is the bank a sweepstakes gift-prize?
I live in DC and there is a road — 110– that runs past the Pentagon. Since 9/11, trucks have been forbidden on 110. The summer after that law was passed, the Weinermobile was in the area and pulled onto 110 where it was stopped by the MPs who enforce said law. Because according to whomever decides such things, the Weinermobile is a truck. I can only imagine the MPs telling their buddies that they got to pull over the Weinermobile today. LOL!!!!