An icon of the American food industry has died at the age of 95. Oscar G. Mayer, former chairman of the Madison, Wisconsin-based company that bears his name, died on June 6, in a Fitchburg, WI nursing home. It's hard to miss the Oscar Mayer headquarters on the east side of Madison, and we were always partial to their hot dogs and bologna as collegians.
Therefore, let us raise an Oscar Mayer wiener to his memory!
(photo: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Trivia: Meinhardt Raabe, a Wisconsin friend of our father's and a "Wizard of Oz" munchkin -- he was the coroner who proclaimed the wicked witch dead -- was an Oscar Mayer promoter/Wienermobile driver).
