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”