Buy yourself a Bimbo

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Bimbo Bakeries has been selling bread in the U.S. under the Bimbo brand name for several years now, but not a lot people know the brand.

http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/bimbo.html

The word "bimbo" presents many opportunities for double entendre.

So you can post things like the following on your Facebook wall:

1. I keep a spare Bimbo in my freezer.

2. I picked up a Bimbo at the grocery store.

Use your imagination.

I never realized that my local Walmart is the place to find several different kinds of Bimbos.

Do you use Bimbos for peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches?


Sylkat

Can I order a Bimbo online? Are Bimbos delivered globally?

Curiously, the word bimbo originally referred to a carefree young man (in the earliest Betty Boop cartoons of the 1930s, where Betty was still depicted as a dog, her boyfriend was a male canine character called Bimbo), then later referred to a small boy (Jim Reeves recorded a #1 pop song about a little boy called Bimbo in 1954) and only came to be associated with attractive, but unsophisticated females in the late 50s or early 60s.


Personally, I love a tasty Bimbo, but I'm never satisfied with just one.

if it weren't for the fact I'm not supposed to have them (and since when did that stop me), I'd wouldn't mind having a Thomas English Muffin right now. (since they are baked by Bimbo pronounced beem-Bo). At least it's not Schmidt's bakery out of Bawlmer.

Bimbo owns more bakeries than I thought! They own Arnold, Sara Lee, Thomas, Arnold and Stroehman, among others. When in the hell did they buy Stroehman out of Harrisburg????! !! ! No wonder one of my housemates moved to Red Lion from metro Philly! It's at least 85 miles from Philly to Harrisburg. I thought I was crazy driving from York PA to Springfield, VA every day when I worked at the Pentagon.

Sara Lee is a 'Bimbo'?

Oh, noooooo!


Sylkat

Someone once tried to buy me a bimbo but I just shook my head and told him, "Um, not my flavor."

Now Arnold is a Bimbo?


Noooo!

Sylkat

OK I'm about to talk about a special interest here, so if anyone finds that annoying, just ignore me and skip to the next post.

Bimbo is a household name in Spain. People over there say "pan Bimbo" (Bimbo bread) to refer to any sliced bread, even if the sliced bread being referred to isn't Bimbo bread at all.

(It's a bit like the way most people in the UK say "Hoover" to refer to a vacuum cleaner, even if the vacuum cleaner being referred to isn't of the Hoover brand at all).

Sorry to disappoint you, but it isn't actually pronounced "Bimbo" in the English way at all. In Spanish, it's actually pronounced "Beembo." But the spelling is identical, and English-speakers obviously find it amusing that there is such a thing as Bimbo bread.

Well, spare a thought for Italian waiters working in Spain. In Spain, ordering a plate of "Pasta Penne" in an Italian restaurant sounds exactly like you are ordering a plate of "Penis pasta."

This phenomenon - of words that look identical or nearly identical, but have completely different meanings in each language - is known as "false friends." Here are some more funny ones in Spanish/English:

http://www.thelocal.es/galleries/cultur ... -friends/1

Etymology aside, I think I'll need to pick up several Bimbos this week.

I love the smell of freshly-unwrapped Bimbo. My mouth is watering with just thinking about it ... I want my Bimbo now!

Any Bimbos left on my doorstep would result in a quick phone call to the local police.

They also make hotdog buns.

So you can even put your wiener into a...

Never mind!

I wonder if any local stores offer a discount on day-old-Bimbos.


Sylkat