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Dog Days: A Year In The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile (2011)

by Dave Ihlenfeld(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1402776101 (ISBN13: 9781402776106)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Union Square Press

review 1: Jeff says:I remember seeing the Weinermobile as a kid and just last year saw one with my daughter at a suburban event, so I was interested to read about someone who actually drove one. This is a fun, quick read that includes chapters about the history of Oscar Mayer and the Weinermobile program, as well as the year the author spent driving around the U.S. and even Europe in a 27-foot long hot dog.
review 2: Thoroughly entertaining, not too long, and replete with the author's self-deprecating humor, this is the story of a college graduate faced with finding a 'real' job, and who elects to spend a year driving the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile around the U.S. (and briefly, at a US military base in Germany), and his adventures that ensue.Ihlenfeld's description of the... more various travel partners he is assigned (he has changed names and combined personalities of some of the players for privacy's sake) were very witty and the one-liners they were taught at "Hot Dog High", a two-week training program for all the 'hotdoggers' as they were known, are hilarious. The suggested answers they learn to give when people ask questions consist of bad puns.Examples: "What does it run on?" Answer: "High-octane mustard.""Does it have air conditioning?" Answer: "It's not a chili dog."I enjoyed the book thoroughly for the light entertainment that it was. I also saw the Wienermobile driving through my town about 10 years ago, crossing the Columbia River Bridge, but nobody believes me. less

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