Up there in Canada seeing a vehicle stuck in a snow bank is the norm but down here in the U.S. we prefer to keep things wrapped in a bun. Yes, it’s true the famous wieny-mobile spun and “ate it” on a snow covered Pa. highway but the hotdoggers are OK.

Let’s be “frank” motor vehicle accidents aren’t much fun for anyone. But when a 27-foot-long tube-steak spins out on a snow-covered highway, it’s bound to generate some grins. That’s what happened Sunday to an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile on Route 15 about two miles south of Mansfield (at least it didn’t roll over). The roaming wieny contained two hotdoggers driver Emily Volpini, 22, of Lexington, Ky., and Caylen Goudie, 22, of Hinsdale, Ill. Although they didn’t “relish” the experience, they weren’t hurt, investigating state Trooper Rex Johnson said. “Hotdoggers” are goodwill ambassadors for Kraft Foods and Oscar Mayer. There are 12 of them in the country two for each of the six Wienermobiles. They spend a year on the job traveling around the country. Part of their job is to recruit their replacements. “We thought we had come out of the blizzard,” Goudie said. “We thought we were through it. Then we hit a patch of ice. The Wienermobile weighs 7,000 pounds, so usually ice and snow isn’t much of a problem. It was this time.”
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