Three weeks after submitting a letter to Oscar Mayer about becoming a “hot-dogger” (one of the drivers of the world-famous wienermobile), 14-year-old Joe Levin was visited by the hot-dog car on Saturday at his home on Via de la Paz.
Every year, Oscar Mayer selects a group of young adults to roam the country in the head-turning 27-foot-long wiener vehicle as the company’s brand ambassadors.
While Levin is still too young to become an official “hotdogger,” the folks at Oscar Mayer were so impressed with his letter, asking Oscar Mayer to become a “hot-dogger” after he graduates from college, they decided to pop into town and pay him visit.
“Oscar Mayer liked the letter enough to send Spicy Mustard Mandy and Pigs in a Blan-Kate to my house with Autobuhn,” said Levin, who is going to be a freshman at Harvard-Westlake this fall. “Some friends and I took a tour, and then went for a ride. We stopped at Fire Station 69 for a car wash and Norris Hardware to get supplies to remove a stain. Then, we drove around the Village and back home.”
“Hotdogger” positions run a year long and applicants “should have a B.A. or B.S., preferably in public relations, journalism, communications, advertising, or marketing, though applicants are not limited to these degrees,” according to Oscar Mayer’s hotdogger.blog.com.
The position requires constant travel, but includes full pay and benefits, which is not bad for riding inside a giant wiener.
The vehicle had just finished driving the cast of the television show “Psyche” to Comic-Con in San Diego and was in the area Saturday, said Levin, who relished his day of head-turning travel in the wiener mobile.
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