Hot Dog! Oscar Mayer is Taking Applications for Wienermobile Drivers

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This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

Hot Dog! Oscar Mayer is Taking Applications for Wienermobile Drivers

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on January 29th, 2019 in the Car Culture category.

 

[Famine]

Brace yourselves... the wiener puns are coming.


Also, if you're interested, the six license plates are: BIG BUN, OSCRMYR, WEENR, WNR MBLE, YUMMY and the all-time classic, OH I WISH.

 

[Islaygaz]

Feb Update??????

 

[Beeblebrox237]

And people think drivers of lifted trucks are compensating for something

 

[Auditore]

Yeah who doesn't want to drive a Weiner.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Got to be a right 🤬 to drive it right?

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Brace yourselves... the wiener puns are coming.


Also, if you're interested, the six license plates are: BIG BUN, OSCRMYR, WEENR, WNR MBLE, YUMMY and the all-time classic, OH I WISH.

Because of my morning routine consisting of turning off my alarm and then checking the front page, guess which song was already stuck in my head by the time I was brushing my teeth?

 

[Famine]

Because of my morning routine consisting of turning off my alarm and then checking the front page, guess which song was already stuck in my head by the time I was brushing my teeth?

We don't get them over here (weirdly, we do have a company called Oscar Mayer, which makes food, but it's not the same company), so all I could think of was the scene in Demolition Man with the Oldies radio station

 

[Castrol96]

"If you’ve always wanted to grab your wiener with both hands and take it on an adventure across the United States, now’s your chance."

What an introduction!

 

[TenEightyOne]

This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

Hot Dog! Oscar Mayer is Taking Applications for Wienermobile Drivers

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on January 29th, 2019 in the Car Culture category.

For nerdy information: a wiener is not a sandwich in Britain (obviously), just for information, and the other day I learned that Americans pronounce a "W" at the beginning instead of the "V".

Very cool van though, it would make a great camper!

 

[Crazy Taylor]

They do periodic tables as well.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

We don't get them over here (weirdly, we do have a company called Oscar Mayer, which makes food, but it's not the same company), so all I could think of was the scene in Demolition Man with the Oldies radio station

 

[ZGBox]

I want it on GT Sport, now.

 

[WheelmanSteve]

I so want to apply. It would be worth it just for the "What does your dad do" answers my kids would have to supply...

 

[Obelisk]

That's one hell of an introduction to an article. I'm surprised at the Weiner-Mini...and I'm sure there are plenty of jokes that could be made on that one.

 

[Jordan]

We don't get them over here (weirdly, we do have a company called Oscar Mayer, which makes food, but it's not the same company), so all I could think of was the scene in Demolition Man with the Oldies radio station

Huh. Oscar Mayer is such a ubiquitous brand over here, it's crazy to find out an unrelated food company with the same name exists on the other side of the pond.

The reason it's so well-known here is because of their long history of commercials with arguably two of the most famous jingles in advertising history (or the two most famous here in the US, I guess). This is also the origin of the "OH I WISH" license plate, which I'm assuming you didn't understand at first.





I love seemingly random things like this which break me out of my own cultural bubble.

other day I learned that Americans pronounce a "W" at the beginning instead of the "V".

Ha, yep. I assumed most Europeans knew this!

 

[TexRex]

Here's a prime candidate:

 

[Pupik]

I saw the wienermobile somewhere between Dallas and Waco last summer:



I've seen a couple of Bugatti Veyrons and two Ferrari 250 GTOs in my lifetime, but only one rolling hot dog (as opposed to hot dogs on rollers).

I love seemingly random things like this which break me out of my own cultural bubble.

I've been to Canada 10 times and still do double-takes at Purolator Couriers, as opposed to the semi-related US automotive filter manufacturer.