Pedalling your weiner about city is probably not everybody’s selection of mobility, however somebody simply paid $4000 for the privilege.
Ah, America. Land of the free, residence of the courageous, and a spot the place hotdog advertising and marketing is an elite sport.
The Chicago-based Oscar Mayer meals firm was fashioned in 1883 and has earned close to world recognition because of a catchy ‘popular culture’ jingle and a fleet of scorching dog-shaped promotional vans, dubbed Weinermobiles.
The vans, with a historical past courting again to 1936, are used to advertise the recent canine firm at occasions and different activations. Quite a few vans have been put up on the market lately, with one Canadian vendor itemizing a pair of Weinermobiles for simply $US12,000 in 2020.
Not everybody desires a truck-sized weiner although, with an unassembled pedal-car reproduction of the hotdog truck lately promoting on the web public sale platform, Carry-a-Trailer for $US2750
That’s about $AU4000 for a pedal automotive toy that appears like a hotdog truck.
The pedal automotive is in as-new situation and nonetheless requires meeting, however as one public sale commenter notes, different examples of the Oscar Mayer pedal automobiles have bought for as little as $US200, making the $US1500 beginning worth (with no reserve) a big step upward.
The vendor has included a luxurious Weinermobile gentle toy with the transaction, however we’re unsure a small, gentle weiner actually provides lots right here.
Regardless, somebody has earned themselves a fairly hot-dog hot-dog pedal automotive to get pleasure from.
The Oscar Mayer Weiner music
Oh, I want I had been an Oscar Mayer Wiener,
That’s what I would actually prefer to be-ee-ee.
‘Trigger if I had been an Oscar Mayer Wiener,
Everybody could be in love with me.
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