Comments on: Bimbo Bread

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:37 +0000

I don’t know if you sell any kind of shirts to the public, but I would love one! I’ve seen soccer teams with the logo, probally sponsored by Bimbo. If you sell to the public please please let me know. 830-714-7277.

By: Defiant1

Defiant1 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:38:53 +0000

At one time, the Bimbo Bear logo had a “stiffy.” Find it here: http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/rebanadas/page2.html

By: yopichoi

yopichoi — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:56:04 +0000

I live in Mexico and “Bimbo” products are awful, especially the white bread.

By: kerozene

kerozene — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:05:54 +0000

Meh this stuff is all over the place in oregon. Yet another sign of the times and the ongoing “invasion” from south of the border.

By: zach

zach — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:27:32 +0000

I (partially) grew up in southeast Mexico (near Tulum). “Bimbo” still means “company that makes awesome-tasting bread” to me (as opposed to any other meaning).

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:25:29 +0000

Bimbo is named after the stuffed teddy bear owned by the founder’s wife.
Their products are, in general and putting it kindly, sub-par.

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:13:37 +0000

When I first saw “Bimbo” signs, I laughed my *ss off. They lose a little of their humor when you find out it’s pronounced “beam-bo”.

Other funny Mexican names:

“Fud”–a brand of lunch meats. (Pronounced “food”.)

“Kike’s”–a supermarket chain. (Pronounced “key-kays”.)

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:17:05 +0000

The legends says that the BIMBO founder was a huge fan of Bambi, so he decided to name his “little” bread bussines (at that time) with a similar name… or something like that. and the bread is just good!

In southamerica BIMBO has another name, i guess is Pan Ideal, because BIMBO is the slang for whor* or d*ck… in this region.

By: K

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:15:48 +0000

BINBO (but I guess BIMBO would work too) means POOR in Japanese.

By: lDAVE

lDAVE — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:33:10 +0000

Saw one of these just three days ago in Providence RI.

I’ve seen some of the Bimbo products in local Hispanic grocery stores.

(Think Hostess/Little Debbie/Dolly Madison snack cake type stuff)

By: ::mwah::

::mwah:: — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:41:10 +0000

They also sell toast

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:38:03 +0000

I live here in Mexico at the moment, and my favourite is seeing all the people walking around with BIMBO written in huge letters on the front of their football jersey – they support some soccer teams here.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:37:38 +0000

Ah yes! We saw this bread all over Costa Rica and were very amused by it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:10:10 +0000

I lived in Spain for a couple of years and LOVED seeing the Bimbo bread trucks. It was our running joke everytime we saw one of these trucks or a loaf in the store. The bread itself was pretty terrible (think Wonder bread) but had a great name.

By: Pablo Ruiz

Pablo Ruiz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:31:25 +0000

“Bimbo” in italian means “little kid”…