FUN REMINDER: FRIDAY, MAY 23RD, 12:45 PM CHICAGO TIME

As I mentioned on the net last night, 6 Oscar Mayer Wiener mobiles, each representing a region of the country will Race for glory at the Indy Motor Speedway in their first and very own “Wienermobile 500”.

Oscar Mayer is sending six Wienermobiles to the track for the first time, and it’s not just any old track. It’s the same circuit that will host the sold-out Indy 500 on Sunday, May 25. Oscar Mayer said the winner will be crowned after just two laps of the 2.5-mile-long oval, and the same men and women who drive the Wienermobiles across the country will race it.

It doesn’t sound like Oscar Mayer will make any mechanical modifications to the six hot dog-shaped trucks before letting them loose on the track, so don’t expect to see record-breaking speeds or to hear Formula 1-like exhaust sounds.

Each Wienermobile will represent a different regional hot dog. There’s the Chi Dog representing the Midwest (#1), the New York Dog for the East Coast (#2), the Slaw Dog for the Southeast (#3), the Sonoran Dog for the Southwest (#4), the Seattle Dog for the Northwest (#5), and, last but sure as hell not least, the Chili Dog racing for the South (#6). Each driver will wear a custom-made Hotdogger suit.

You can catch all of the live-streamed action by searching for: “INDYCAR on FOX” on Facebook. The race will start today, May 23rd at 12:45 pm Chicago time. Enjoy!

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From Laura’s stuff, June 28th: 1953 - Workers assembled the first Corvette in Flint, Michigan. On this day, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assembled the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon. The first completed production car rolled off the assembly line two days later, one of just 300 Corvettes made that year.

QFL (question for Laura): Was wondering if any of those original 300, 1953 corvettes were still around.

AFL (answer from Laura): New Research Shows the First 1953 Chevrolet Corvette Wasn't Actually Destroyed | The Online Automotive Marketplace | Hemmings (a bit of a read, but a great story)

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The Cicada Madness 2024 Contest Winner is…

— This contest was not as easy as we first thought but it was fun. We had dates that no one chose, we had gaps in the calendar,… just way too many variables we never thought of when we started this contest. But we have a winner folks. We finally got it down to two dates (one from our northern listening group - May 25th, and one from our southern listening group - May 29th). During this time period, there were only two people who chose dates - Kevin, W2LST and Laura, KD9EID. We used a random, online spinner and the winner is… Kevin, W2LST. Congratulations Kevin, we hope you enjoy the prize package being sent out to you. And a great big thank you to all involved in the contest. You all rock!!

— All decisions of Club management and the Nightcrawler Net Controllers are final.

If you’re looking for high protein meal ideas like this one, check this out: 13 Mouthwatering Cicada Dishes For The Summer (buzzfeed.com).

Looking for something not so common, try a few cicada recipes from Bon Appetit. Down the hatch! How to Cook Cicadas, According to 3 Richmond, Va., Chefs | Bon Appétit (bonappetit.com)

You could also try being crafty with your cicadas. Here, someone got crafty with the cicada’s empty shells. (They may have been a ham operator. Look at all that glue. Must be using the ham code, the bigger the glob the better the job? Hmmm.) Looks like date night. Pretty crafty if you ask me. (I wonder if they will share their spaghetti?)