{"id":5583,"date":"2025-11-02T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/old-dog-new-tricks-sask-man-reunites-with-his-food-truck-after-a-decade-apart\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:14:21","slug":"old-dog-new-tricks-sask-man-reunites-with-his-food-truck-after-a-decade-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/old-dog-new-tricks-sask-man-reunites-with-his-food-truck-after-a-decade-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Old dog, new tricks: Sask. man reunites with his food truck after a decade apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SaskatchewanA Saskatchewan man who had to sell his hot dog truck a decade ago is getting back in business, thanks to a photographer who happened upon the truck as he drove through the province.Kenny Chaplin tracks down Diggity Dawgs truck thanks to online post by U.S. photographerAlex Kozroski  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Nov 02, 2025 6:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 7 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesKenny Chaplin first bought the Diggity Dawgs truck in 2008, turning it into a food truck after it was used in a movie. (Submitted by Kenny Chaplin)A Saskatchewan man who had to sell his hot dog truck a decade ago is getting back in business, thanks to a photographer who happened upon the truck as he drove through the province.Kenny Chaplin first bought the Diggity Dawgs truck in 2008 from the film production crew that had created it. He turned it into a food truck and operated it on and off until 2015 when he decided to sell it. \u201cI had a daughter, and I wanted to spend my summers, my springs with my daughter. She was only five at the time,\u201d he told guest host Tory Gillis on CBC Radio\u2019s The Morning Edition. \u201cWe sold it, and I never heard about it again.\u201dHe was under the impression that it went to Manitoba, and had heard tell of the giant dog sighted near Estevan.But he moved on to other things.He said had not thought about it in a long time, until he was at the Ness Creek Music Festival this summer and someone recognized him as the hot dog vendor. His daughter, now 14, did a quick search online and found a photo that Grant Miller, a photographer from rural Colorado, had posted from when he was driving through Saskatchewan.The Diggity Dawgs truck had seen better days by the time Grant Miller came across it in rural Saskatchewan. (Submitted by Grant Miller)Miller said he happened upon the old truck by chance.\u201cI don\u2019t really go out with the plan, so I was just driving down a random road and as I came over a hill I see what appears to be a very large hot dog,\u201d Miller said in an interview. \u201cAs I crest the hill, there it is in its full glory.\u2026 It\u2019s pretty well sculpted, with sesame seeds on the bun and relish on the hot dog, so I took a few photos.\u201dAfter Chaplin\u2019s daughter found the photo on Instagram, Chaplin contacted Miller, who managed to figure out the location where he had seen the truck by scouring the satellite view of the general area on Google maps.\u201cIt was a huge surprise, because I was really worried I wouldn\u2019t be able to track it down and I knew how much it mattered to Kenny,\u201d said Miller. \u201cThere were lots of little moments going through Saskatchewan where you stumble on something unusual, but certainly a hot dog truck in the middle of green rolling pastures is up there at the top, and I\u2019m definitely not going to forget that.\u201dLISTEN | Regina man relishes reunion with hot dog food truck:The Morning Edition \u2013 Sask10:58Regina man relishing reunion with his hot dog food truck, Diggity Dawgs, after roughly a decadeA Saskatchewan man parted ways with his iconic Diggity Dawgs food truck back in 2015.It featured a giant hotdog on its roof,which piqued the interest of a traveling photographer.Thanks to the photographer, Kenny Chaplin has recovered his giant hotdog truck after a decade.Miller shared the location with Chaplin, who took a road trip with his daughter.\u201dWe\u2019re cresting the hill, just like Grant said,\u201d said Chaplin. \u201cI start to cry because sometimes, things from your past that were good come back to you, for a good reason, at a good time. And this was perfect timing for me.\u201dChaplin managed to buy it from its owner. Miraculously, it started up and he drove it away, and he\u2019s been spending his days repainting it and fixing it up.\u201cIt was gutted. The dog had never been taken care of for the last 10 years,\u201d he said.Kenny Chaplin, middle, used to sell hot dogs at events all over Saskatchewan, and is working on getting his food truck up and running again. (Submitted by Kenny Chaplin)Chaplin said he has big plans. He has a prime spot in Chamberlain, Sask., near the intersection of Highway 2 and Highway 11, and he plans to sell hot dogs to drivers passing through.\u201cIt\u2019s just a lot of fun because as a customer coming up to that window, you can\u2019t help but have a smile on your face, just with the size of the dog.\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORAlex Kozroski is a reporter with CBC News in Regina. He has also worked as a reporter for Golden West Broadcasting in Swift Current, Sask.With files from The Morning Edition<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SaskatchewanA Saskatchewan man who had to sell his hot dog truck a decade ago is getting back in business, thanks to a photographer who happened upon the truck as he drove through the province.Kenny Chaplin tracks down Diggity Dawgs truck thanks to online post by U.S. photographerAlex Kozroski \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 02, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,123,1],"tags":[116,122],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-saskatchewan","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}