wiener

In the film version of “Robot Dreams,” the background characters, all anthropomorphized animals, have distinct looks: a lion with a boombox, a wiener dog selling franks and some mischievous rabbits.

Those dog days of April — when the Philly weather is cold and the wieners are a steal — are going, going, gone.

Instead, they viewed him with contempt for being such a wiener.

Our food writer convened a panel to embark on the “Great Seattle hot dog taste test,” sampling five different wieners.

Even wiener jokes, though, are freighted with the weight of history.