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bajalera
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Changes
Have you noticed anything that's changed for the better since you first visited Baja California?
Here's mine: The basura cans along the highway. (A sign things are picking up?)
Lera
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Bruce R Leech
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yea the potato chips are a lot better
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4baja
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less cows on the road(love to drive at night).
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Tucker
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Improved beer bottles.............
Ten years ago it was an adventure opening a beer bottle, probably one in fifty chipped at the neck inviting you to swallow the chip. Now very seldom
does one chip, although I check every one.
\"I think it would be a good idea.\"
-- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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Paulina
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The availablity of potable ice.
One summer in Bahia, August 1982, the ice house was out. The town generator was also out of service. The two markets in town at that time, Casa Diaz
and Dos Pinos didn't sell ice.
Every day we cooled the cerveza by towing it behind the boat in burlap bags. No ice for fish at the end of the day.
Finally the generator was repaired, the electricity came on again for a limited time daily. The Marine station that we were staying at had an electric
soda machine with two dispensers. On one side we could fit two beer bottles, up the other side we shoved dorado filets. Margaritas were warm, straight
out of the bottles.
Ice is a good thing, but come to think of it, so were those times...
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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bajajudy
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No more Bimbos
I dont have to eat white bimbo bread anymore. I remember when they came out with "whole wheat" bimbo(back in the mid 80's)....I was thrilled until I
took one bite and found out that it was just white bimbo with brown food coloring.
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vgabndo
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Speaking of brown Bimbo...
A couple of years ago we returned home and pulled the cab-over off the truck and stuck it out back. About six months later I was looking for somthing
inside and found half a loaf of Bimbo. It looked exactly like it did the last time I had opened the bag. Having eaten several slices, I don't expect
there'll be any need of embalming when I croak.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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surfer jim
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 ...vgabndo....I just spit out my coke and rum when I read the last
sentence....good...that was very good....
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Skeet/Loreto
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The changes in the people after the road Opened, TV and Telephones came to Baja Sur.
Skeet/Loreto
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woody with a view
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Ten years ago it was an adventure opening a beer bottle, probably one in fifty chipped at the neck inviting you to swallow the chip
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was/is that carta blanca with the built in opener on the bottom of the bottle. what a concept!!! surprised it didn't catch on more.
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Have you noticed anything that's changed for the better since you first visited Baja California?
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everytime i cross the border my mood improves dramatically
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Mexray
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I'm not exactly sure what this means...
But when the new Wal-Mart Super Center opened in Stockton a few months ago, they began selling Bimbo Bread!
It's the only place I've seen it up here...guess I'll take a look at the label to see just where it's baked...just curious, is all.
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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Natalie Ann
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Bimbo Bread
Bimbo Bread - My corner tienda carries an ample supply! There's also this little trick they do with the bread when it finally goes stales (after 4 or
5 years).... toast it crisp, then package it in little packets of 10 slices and resell it. I often see moms giving broken pieces of this toast to
their children as teething biscuits.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Natalie Ann
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And to stay on topic - what's changed for the better since I began visiting Baja is me! I'm more relaxed, happier and healthier - long as I keep
visiting again and again and again.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
I dont have to eat white bimbo bread anymore. I remember when they came out with "whole wheat" bimbo(back in the mid 80's)....I was thrilled until I
took one bite and found out that it was just white bimbo with brown food coloring. |
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Bruce R Leech
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now you can have Bimbo multi grain bread it has more color. or even double fiber. it has ground cardboard added
Bruce R Leech
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bajalou
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After the free trade agreemtent, Bimbo started buying bakery companies in the US. Look for more of it
No Bad Days
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bajajudy
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Bimbo owns Enteman(sp?). The people that do all the coffee cakes, etc.
I have an old saltine tin that I always put the loaf of Bimbo(with cardboard of course) in when we go camping so it wont get crushed. Vgbndo,I had
the same experience with a loaf month or 2 old . looked just like the day I bought it.
Does anyone know where the name Bimbo came from?
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Dave
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Bimbo bread is owned by Continental bakery. The same people who bring you Wonder bread. Same chit.
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Ben
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
Does anyone know where the name Bimbo came from? |
Named after one of my ex-wives.
Inside every older person there is a younger person wondering what happened.
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bajalou
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Did a little looking Dave and found the following.
About Bimbo-
Corporate Structure
Bimbo Bakeries USA is headquarters at the Mrs Baird's bakery complex in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the U.S. subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo. It produces and
distributes Bimbo, Mrs Baird's, Weber's, Tia Rosa and Marinela brand baked goods. Founded in Mexico City in 1945, Grupo Bimbo is Mexico's industry
leader in the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of bread, cakes and cookies. Grupo Bimbo is growing internationally. It employs more than
60,000 people, has annual sales of $3 billion and distributes its products in Mexico, the United States and 11 Latin American countries.
and about Wonder bread
WELCOME
Welcome to Interstate Bakeries Corporation, the largest wholesale bread and cake distributor in the United States and the home of two American icons:
Hostess? Twinkies? and Wonder? Bread.
BRANDS
The Interstate Bakeries Corporation product line is marketed under a number of well-known national and regional brands, which include: Hostess,
Wonder, Home Pride, Drakes, Merita, Dolly, Beefsteak, and Butternut.
Other brands marketed by IBC include: Bread du Jour?, Parisian?, Colombo? , Millbrook?, Eddy?s, Sweetheart?, Cotton?s? Holsum, Di Carlo?, J.J.
Nissen?, and Mrs. Cubbison?s?.
In addition, the Company is a baker and distributor of Holsum, Marie Callender?s?, Sunbeam? , Sun-Maid? bread and Roman Meal?.
Couldn't find the connection with Bimbo and anyone else.
[Edited on 3-20-2005 by bajalou]
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
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