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6 unusual facts about Oscar Mayer


Chair Model

Michael calls Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nunez) an "Oscar Mayer Weiner Lover", a reference to both the sausage of the same name, as well as Oscar's homosexuality.

Chuck Collins

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U.S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

Elizabeth Keener

Keener has been in various commercials including an Oscar Mayer lunch meat commercial, a Lays potato chip commercial and a 7Up commercial.

Jodie Sweetin

She started her career as a four-year-old, appearing in an Oscar Mayer hot dog commercial.

Oscar G. Mayer, Sr.

(ca. 1888 – March 5, 1965) was an American business executive who served as chairman and president of Oscar Mayer, the processed-meat firm founded by his father.

Oscar Mayer

German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955) began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois.


Dick Beals

Beals moved to Los Angeles where he continued making commercials as Speedy Alka-Seltzer and also provided voices for other commercials, such as Alka-Seltzer, Oscar Mayer, the Campbell Soup Kids, and Bob's Big Boy.

George Molchan

His lack of height was a concern to him; a local theater manager who sympathized with his worries managed to contact Meinhardt Raabe, who was "Little Oscar", the spokesman for the Oscar Mayer company.


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Oscar G. Mayer, Sr.

As an adjunct to his post at Oscar Mayer, he served from 1924 to 1928 as president of the Institute of American Meat Packers (later known as the American Meat Institute), advancing its interest in improving the quality of meat sold in the United States and encouraging consumers to consume more meat.