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RIP Oscar Mayer His bologna had a first name. His bologna had a last name. So did he.
More than simply a brand name or the punchline to a catchy ad jingle, Oscar G. Mayer, the former chairman of his family's eponymous meat products company has died. He passed away Monday at the age of 95 in a hospice facility in Fitchburg, Wis., reports the Daily Herald. Founded by three German immigrant brothers, Gottfried, Max and Oscar Mayer, the company began selling sausages in Chicago in the 1890s. The basis of their success was the bratwurst, weisswurst and liverwurst made by Gottfried, a trained wurstmacher from Nurnburg. His sausages proved so popular that the Mayer brothers were soon making deliveries by horse-drawn wagon throughout Chicago, expanding their reach well beyond the city's German enclaves. They began using the Oscar Mayer brand name in the 1920s, stamping it on the country's first packaged, sliced bacon, which the Mayer brothers introduced in 1924 -- an innovation that earned them a U.S. government patent. Oscar G. Mayer began working for the family business in 1936, the same year the company introduced its popular Wienermobile. Mayer was named president in 1955 and chairman in 1966. He retired from the company in 1977 after 41 years. No word on whether the funeral procession will be led by the Wienermobile. -- Elina Shatkin link edit http://latimesblogs.latim...-dead.html [Edited 7/8/09 17:29pm] "Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack | |
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My bologna has a first name, it's D-E-A...oh forget it.
RIP, Mr. Mayer. . [Edited 7/9/09 0:06am] Facebook, I haz it - https://www.facebook.com/Nikster1969
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Nikademus said: My bologna has a first name, it's D-E-A...oh forget it.
RIP, Mr. Mayer. . [Edited 7/9/09 0:06am] Well when I eat an Oscar Mayer wiener or looking at an actually wiener I'll think about him. | |
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My girls at the weinermobile this weekend.  | |
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They should have buried him in a weiner-shaped casket. | |
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Is that all he did was make bologna and hot dogs? | |
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DesireeNevermind said: Is that all he did was make bologna and hot dogs?
...out of the left overs of pigs and stuff...  | |
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PaisleyPark5083 said: DesireeNevermind said: Is that all he did was make bologna and hot dogs?
...out of the left overs of pigs and stuff... dayum I thought he did something more special like open up schools or libraries or have a restaraunt chain. 
Oh well RIP oscar and say hello to the colonel and that micky dees dude.  | |
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PaisleyPark5083 said:
My girls at the weinermobile this weekend. the smallest one I ever had: 
is the biggest one I ever saw! 
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: PaisleyPark5083 said:
My girls at the weinermobile this weekend. the smallest one I ever had:
is the biggest one I ever saw!
you look so handsome next to that big wienie.  | |
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