Dartmouth residents ‘love to be an Oscar Mayer Weiner’
From left to right: Levi Ferreira,4; Ella Ferreira, 10; and Sophie Ferreira, 8, take a picture with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile outside Shaw’s on Thursday, July 11. Photos by Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Mayer Romanelli, 3, is dwarfed by the 27-foot-long Wienermobile ... 
... but holds up two little Wienermobile monster trucks. 
Five-month-old Scout Vaughan gets to be an Oscar Mayer wiener with parents Trevor Vaughan and Heather Vaughan. 
From left to right: Dartmouth residents Hannah Kirby, 6; Meghan Kirby, 12 and Charlotte Cipriani, 14 take a picture with the Wienermobile. 
George Pimentel takes a picture with his grandson Theodore Pimentel, 5.
From left to right: Levi Ferreira,4; Ella Ferreira, 10; and Sophie Ferreira, 8, take a picture with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile outside Shaw’s on Thursday, July 11. Photos by Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Mayer Romanelli, 3, is dwarfed by the 27-foot-long Wienermobile ...
... but holds up two little Wienermobile monster trucks.
Five-month-old Scout Vaughan gets to be an Oscar Mayer wiener with parents Trevor Vaughan and Heather Vaughan.
From left to right: Dartmouth residents Hannah Kirby, 6; Meghan Kirby, 12 and Charlotte Cipriani, 14 take a picture with the Wienermobile.
George Pimentel takes a picture with his grandson Theodore Pimentel, 5.
A crowd formed outside the Dartmouth Shaw’s on Thursday, July 11, and there was one song on everyone’s lips:
“Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener. That is what I'd truly like to be,” sang people young and old. “'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener, everyone would be in love with me.”
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, a 27-foot hotdog-shaped car that some outside Shaw’s described as a piece of “Americana,” pulled up for photos with the people of Dartmouth who relished the opportunity.
Dartmouth resident George Pimentel saw the Wienermobile before but brought his 5-year-old grandson Theodore to experience it himself. The duo posed for photos behind cardboard cutouts of a hotdog and a piece of bacon.
“I taught him how to sing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song,” said George. “This is [an experience] I hope he remembers.”
Also making memories was Dartmouth resident Heather Vaughan, who took a photo with husband Trevor Vaughan and 5-month-old son Scout.
“I’m so excited,” she said. “I only saw it on TV when I was a kid and now I get to see it in person.”
Dartmouth’s Asher Schudrich also revisited some old memories at Thursday’s Wienermobile sighting.
“I only really know Oscar Mayer from seeing it in stores … but my oldest memories are from my dad singing the jingle,” he said. “I do think it’s cool. If this was a more modern [product], I wouldn’t care – I do think it’s cool that it’s something from years ago.”
One youngster who had a big reason to smile was 3-year-old Mayer Romanelli, who sported a hotdog-patterned shirt and held two toy Wienermobile monster trucks.
Mayer said he was a “big fan” of the Wienermobile.
According to hotdogger Bridget Beren, the Wienermobile goes where “demand is highest.”
A hotdogger is someone who drives the Wienermobile and acts as a spokesperson for Oscar Mayer. According to Beren, it is a one-year position that brings her across the country.
“I have a love for adventure and a taste for travel,” she said. “We’re also driving an American icon and making people smile”
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