FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label (https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/our-brands)
It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though.
> The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje's daughter. Later, the founders would find out that bimbo is an Italian slang for children (shortened from bambino), and that in China the word for bread (面包, miànbāo) is similar to the name of the brand.
I think they mostly only sell bimbo-branded goods in spanish language shops (where the brand would help sell). In, say, Safeway you only see the US brands they have acquired, at least where I live.
Err.. ish? About as similar as 'Hacker News' and 'cake her knees', anyway?
Then 'im' is read flat and not like 'ià'.
Of course 'bo' is quite like 'bāo', but that's your 'ish'.
I've noticed Chinese are very loose with their puns, and it helps that there is a lot of regional dialect variation in pronunciation.
For example a common one is 520 (wu er ling) being used for "wo ai ni" (I love you)
So I wouldn't put it past them to consider the two words as "similar"
Anyone have recommendations for Finnish media? Haha
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multinational-companies/swiss-c...
As for bread "面包"，"面" means powder of wheat or products made by that. "包" means something looks like a bag, or has some fillings inside. Just not so meaningless. And "面" sounds like "me" in "mean" plus "an" in "and". It is not the same like "宾堡".
I have yet to see any Bimbo product either in México or Spain, that would remotely look like bread.
> including varieties without crust.
Also WTF.
Are those those the only brands they produce? I only recognize 3 of those brands, and I can't even be sure I've ever eaten more than one of those. Maybe they are big only in certain regions?
No, the five brands explicitly marked as a non-exhaustive list (with “such as”) are not, even close to, all of their brands.
You walk down the aisle and think there's 4 or 5 companies in say, paper towels, competing for your business but it's probably just 1 with different brands.
Last time I checked, Whole Foods where I am carried Peet's, Stumptown, Intelligentsia and Keurig coffee, which is all just a single company. Probably comes in on the same truck.
All you gotta do is literally just have different printed labels on things, Look at sunscreen and cough medicine next time you go in.
"Almost all baked goods" is a stretch, but easily 50% of your bread aisle space is Bimbo. Flowers (Wonder, Nature's Own, etc.) is maybe 25% after that.
I want this so badly right now.
If they kept it with 31 there'd be empty space at any reasonable column count (2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Past 4-6 columns it starts getting too busy across the screen (subjective). They seem to have capped it at 4, it drops to 2 and then 1 as you narrow the page.
One filler image works at each of those sizes, but then it's odd to have a single filler image. Pushing it to 9 gives a ratio approaching 3:1 brand:filler images, someone looked at that and said "That looks better". The filler images are placed, it appears, next to their associated brand (the cupcakes and Sara Lee, as an example).
The one time I've been in Portland we were drunkenly stumbling back to our hotel when we came across the Franz factory. We spent so long watching the production through the windows that security came and told us to move along! it was absolutely fascinating.