Oscar Mayer Oscar Mayer The Oscar Mayer Company is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by the American food company Kraft Heinz. It is known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham and Lunchables products. German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), born in Kösingen, Germany, began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1883, Mayer and his brother Gottfried leased the Kolling Meat Market on the near-northside of Chicago. The Mayer brothers sold bratwurst, liverwurst, and weißwurst which was popular in the predominantly German neighborhoods around their Chicago meat market. As the
Bratwurst recognised as a PGI under EU law. Triggered by the discovery in 2000 of an account entry of 1404 first mentioning the "Bratwurst" in Thuringia in the town of Arnstadt, the association "Friends of the "Thuringian Bratwurst"" was founded in 2006. In the same year, the association established the "Erstes Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum" (First German Bratwurst Museum) in the village of Holzhausen. A two-metre-high wooden monument of a "Bratwurst" in a bun on a local traffic roundabout advertises the museum. The -long "Nordhessische Bratwurst" (from northern Hessen) is similar to the "Thüringer Rostbratwurst" in taste. It is made from coarsely ground