http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/event/article/id/34955/
Oscar Mayer has died. The retired chairman of the famous Madison hot dog and lunch meat company passed away this week in Fitchburg at a hospice care unit. He was 95.
He was the third Oscar Mayer in a family which founded the company that bore his name.
His father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965.
And his grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, passed away in 1955.
Mayer retired as the company’s board chairman in 1977 when he was 62.
The firm had just recorded its first year with $1 billion in sales.
Oscar Mayer was later sold to General Foods, and is now a part of Philip Morris.
more obscure but not less important
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-harry-gray-utc-dies-0708,0,169179.story
lots of people dying lately.
He really had a way with B O L O G N A.
I actually got to drive the Wienermobile back in 1971. It had thrown a belt en route to a gig, and pulled into the service station where I worked at the time to have it replaced. I only drove it across the parking lot, but it was a rush! Then I got to replace the belt. 
It's a dream of mine to one day drive the Wienermobile. I have sent them some resumes but they won't return my calls.
Every time I ever saw the Weinermobile, it was being piloted by hot chicks.
However, a weinermobile lurks among us:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/979/
RIP, Oscar.
Conan O'Brien said it was an open-bun funeral.
They're dropping like flies!
Happier times:
Eric (my youngest), my late best friend Honey, and the stuff of dreams ...
His weiners were delicious... Wait that came out wrong...
It gives me great hope when I see that the chairman of a company that sells processed pork lives to be 95.
RossD
Reader
7/9/09 10:08 a.m.
Somewhere there is a joke with oscar mayer's weiners and michael jackson dying from food poisioning from 8 year old weiners... just cant figure it out...
RossD wrote:
Somewhere there is a joke with oscar mayer's weiners and michael jackson dying from food poisioning from 8 year old weiners... just cant figure it out...
Heard that joke in the barber shop yesterday when I was getting my hair cut. It started with "On the news they said they finally confirmed what killed Michael Jackson, it was food poisoning..."
At first I thought Wally was full of bologna, but no matter how you slice it, that hot dog exec is dead meat.
[rimshot]
NYG95GA
SuperDork
7/9/09 12:44 p.m.
Kinda strange that in this thread, nobody has mentioned how good Oscar's bacon is...
But I can sit in a Miata and ignore it while I finish my BLT.
So a cigarette company owns Oscar Meyer?
What do you think is worse for you, cigarettes, or hot dogs?
suprf1y wrote:
What do you think is worse for you, cigarettes, or hot dogs?
Depends if we're talking about "meat-ish foody product" hot dogs, or real brats.
I wouldn't want to bet on a run of the mill hawt dawg vs. ciggasmoke death match, that's for sure.
Lesley
SuperDork
7/9/09 6:40 p.m.
Think they'll use that thing for the hearse?
Gad, I'd love to drive it and write a review.
Will
Reader
7/9/09 7:05 p.m.
slantvaliant wrote:
Huh...Gen-4 Trans Am taillights. Pontiac lives on!
suprf1y wrote:
What do you think is worse for you, cigarettes, or hot dogs?
No such thing as second hand wiener.
Appleseed wrote:
suprf1y wrote:
What do you think is worse for you, cigarettes, or hot dogs?
No such thing as second hand wiener.
I think that's known as "the stranger".
oldsaw
Reader
7/10/09 7:35 a.m.
Appleseed wrote:
suprf1y wrote:
What do you think is worse for you, cigarettes, or hot dogs?
No such thing as second hand wiener.
Yes there is!
It takes longer, though...........
They had his obituary in The Chicago Tribune today.
Chicago Trib Obit
I always wonder if I should go to the wake just to see if there are cool mini wieners in the coffee "break" room.
Will wrote:
Huh...Gen-4 Trans Am taillights. Pontiac lives on!
Man I love this board. Where else would someone know that!
