The Wienermobile makes abrupt house call

Is that the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile sticking out of your house, or are you just happy to see me? On Friday, the famed promotional vehicle crashed through the garage and deck of a residence in Mount Pleasant, Wis. If it reached the kitchen, there's a chance it slid inside someone's buns. That's a possibility I relish. Unfortunately Oscar Mayer himself isn't alive to savor all the free (albeit pun-filled and not 100 percent positive) publicity. As for Walter Cronkite, well, if he hadn't died on Friday, seeing this kind of story passed off as headline news just might have killed him. (Photo credit: The Associated Press.)

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Published on July 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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But don't bloggers eat just about anything?

Are Oscar Mayer's new microwaveable flatbread sandwiches actually blogworthy? No idea—never had one. But this ad about them being blogworthy—that is blogworthy, obviously, since we're a blog and here we are writing it up. Of course, our attention really shouldn't count for much, since they're practically begging for it right there in the headline. (The first line of body copy reads, "At under 350 calories, Deli Creations Flatbread Sandwiches are worth writing about.") Still, with newspapers falling all over each other to eulogize themselves, maybe sucking up to the blogosphere isn't such a bad idea. Here's a tip: We'll eat anything with bacon on it. Via The Underground Copywriter.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on February 2, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Oscar Mayer seeking Wienermobile drivers

Why can't I get some respect from Oscar Mayer? Why won't the company hire me to drive its promotional vehicles? I can do radio interviews! I can make TV appearances! I've got an upbeat, bubbly personality and a background in marketing or journalism! How come they accepted Brian Morrissey's application and not mine? Not fair! ... What? Oh, sorry. I thought they wanted someone to drive their Whiner-mobiles. I've been informed that the company is actually seeking drivers for it's Wiener-mobiles, which are shaped like giant hot dogs. Whiner, wiener: The words are so similar. Like liar and lawyer.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Published on December 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Wienermobile gets grilled by Arizona police

You just can’t drive a giant hot dog around these days without getting crap from the cops. Police in Tuscon pulled the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile over on Wednesday afternoon and ran the plates to make sure it was street legal. After the “Y-U-M-M-Y” plates came back reported stolen, the cops took no chances and called for backup. Luckily, it was all a misunderstanding, and no shots were fired. The officer who pulled the vehicle over is now a bit of a laughingstock on the force. Says a colleague: “He’s just like, ‘I don’t believe this is happening.’ ”

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Published on June 29, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
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Wienermobile escapes after a close call

It’s no secret that they take their cheese pretty seriously up in Wisconsin, but sausage is probably a close second. That was proven once again this week when the city council in Madison was considering a bill to ban mobile advertising in the city. Sounded pretty good—until one alderman thought of hometown business Oscar Mayer. “Are we banning Little Oscar?” Tim Bruer asked, according to reports. The thought of banishing the Wienermobile from the city limits was enough to send the proposal to defeat by a 12-7 vote. Other than being chomped, an encased meat product hasn’t had such a close brush with danger in Wisconsin since the Italian Sausage was whacked by a Pittsburgh Pirate during a Milwaukee Brewers between-innings stunt a couple of years ago. The Madison council’s move was the second big victory for sausage lovers this week; earlier, two Chicago companies, Vienna Beef and Alpha Baking, agreed to finally produce packages containing equal numbers of hot dogs and buns. With Memorial Day approaching, all appears right for a successful summer of grilling in the Midwest.

—Posted by Trevor Jensen

Published on May 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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