Whistle is pealess. It’s a 4-note whistle (so a whistle that’s capable of making 4 different musical notes) and you always blow in the hole on the far end that’s the closest to where the sticker is for the non-glow-in-the-dark type (where for both types it says “Oscar Mayer”) and you never cover or blow through the hole that’s in the form of a notch on the side of the whistle and to say “Os-car May-er” you first cover both of the other 2 holes then blow, then just cover the far hole (on the opposite side of where you blow through) then blow, then cover no holes then blow, then cover just the hole of the 2 that’s closest to you then blow. This tune is what was heard in the 1960s Oscar Mayer advertising and playing this tune is guaranteed to bring smiles all around even to those that have never heard it before. For a long time I imagined the 2 extra holes that I never saw a non-Oscar Mayer whistle come with before must have a purpose because otherwise why would they be there but what they were for I just didn’t know until I opened 1 up that came with the manual thinking there was only a slight chance that question would be answered in the manual and then to my surprise, the answer was right there! The second picture is of the manual that shows how to play the tune (manual not included) and the other side of the manual is blank except for saying “Recommended for ages 36 months and older.”

The Wienermobile is literally a “marketing vehicle” for their company and Oscar Mayer currently has 6 of them that travel across the United States handing out the highly-prized and sought-after Wienermobile whistles that have never been sold by their company directly to the public. Even if you haven’t seen the Wienermobile in real life so you can’t say “I saw it!” you still can get the Wienermobile whistles (sometimes called Wienerwhistles) that Hotdoggers (recent college grads hired to drive the Wienermobile for a year) hand out here, and then you can “Just whistle!” but with no guarantee that the Wienermobile will then pull-up.

In May of 2023 the Wienermobile changed its name to the “Frankmobile” but I thought it was a dumb new name for it as it sounded like the vehicle of a guy named Frank, everyone already knew and loved the old name so if “it’s not broke don’t fix it,” people aren’t likely to know the new name so if you use the new name people aren’t likely to know what you are talking about making for awkward situations, and the company of Oscar Mayer hinted that the name might not even be permanent so I still kept calling it the “Wienermobile” and then in September of 2023 they did change the name back.

The newest this type I sell could be is from the 1990s, so they are the vintage type, and that is the best type because the non-vintage type have writing on both sides of the whistle (in the form of raised plastic), with technical information like when they were made and where and for whom, which makes them less like a model of the actual Wienermobile since it does not have writing on the sides there and so slightly takes away from the wonder with the unneeded technical information and 1 of the silly things about it is all of that technical information is already on the bags of the non-vintage 1s. The non-vintage 1s are also a slightly darker color of red which does not look quite as good as the color just seems a bit off. The stickers on the vintage 1s and non-vintage 1s are also slightly different but each looks about just as good as the other. The non-vintage 1s also have a notch in the packaging and while that does make them easier to open it overall is not as good of a packaging as then they are not sealed and it’s not like the vintage 1s’ packaging is all that hard to open as most people have easy access to a pair of scissors. Since the vintage type is the best type it’s the only type I sell and for the Wienermobile whistles that come with a manual (which I also sell) and for glow-in-the-dark Wienermobile whistles (which I also sell) the vintage type for those whistles is the only type in existence.

This whistle is very popular as a Christmas gift in part because in the Christmas fantasy comedy film “The Santa Clause” (1994) (starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin/Santa Claus) the character of Neal (played by Judge Reinhold) wanted for Christmas what was referred to in the movie as an “Oscar Mayer wienie whistle” (and stylized that way in the English subtitles) but never got 1 and then at the end of the movie 1 was shown given to him as a Christmas gift by Santa Claus and then Neal finally had his “Oscar Mayer wienie whistle” and feeling grateful and satisfied blew it his Christmas now being complete. That movie was a critical-and-commercial success as it received positive reviews from critics and was a major hit and has since become 1 of the most popular movies of all-time for people to watch during Christmas season and some people also like that it’s a “fun for the whole family” sort of film. While my favorite Christmas movie is “Die Hard” (1988), I am a big action movie fan and so for many “The Santa Clause” (1994) is their favorite Christmas movie and even for me I thought it was a lot better than most Christmas movies so didn’t feel “this movie is too lame to enjoy.” People often buy these whistles for Christmas gifts long before Christmas to make sure they have them in hand for when it’s Christmas as the post office often ships slow during Christmas season and it’s not like they take up a lot of space to store. And you know, they say if you play the song mentioned above on this whistle during Christmas season Santa Claus will magically appear to you and hand you 7 candy canes… just kidding.

While the price may seem expensive for a little plastic whistle, it’s actually not a bad price for 1 of this type still in new, sealed condition after all these years and Oscar Mayer whistles spark joy in people’s hearts more than any other type of whistles in existence, and how many other whistles out there are 4-note whistles so you can play a little song on them? As I have never seen any other whistles like that and I have seen a lot of whistles.

While this whistle is designed as a party whistle it could also be used as a survival whistle and can be used if you want to build your own survival kit.

The sound from a whistle can be heard over a longer distance than yelling and a whistle takes less energy to use than yelling. A whistle is a signal device that works day or night and works in all types of weather. The international whistle signals are: 3 bursts with a pause means "I need help", 2 bursts and a pause means "come to me", and 1 burst and a pause means "where are you?". You can also use a whistle to signal with Morse code, the most famous code is the distress signal SOS (which means “I need help”) which is also an international code and it consists of: dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot ( . . . - - - . . . ) and for a whistle translates to 3 about 3 second long bursts, then 3 about 6 second long bursts, and then 3 about 3 second long bursts, then a pause.

A pea is a little ball inside the whistle about the size of a pea and a whistle with a pea makes an annoying rattling sound when on your person but has a more shrill sound when blown.