Goodbye, weiner winners

News Cut fancies itself a protector of history. So let’s protect this jingle — a staple of Minnesota life — while we still can:

You’ll never hear the jingle, nor get a chance to flub “weiner winner,” again.

Hormel has announced its ending its sponsorship of the Minnesota Twins, because the team wanted too much money to continue.

My colleague, Gary Eichten, noted today that an item on his bucket list — to be in the Hormel Row of Fame — will forever be unchecked.