Bimbo bread!

[Neal Whitman]

Jan Freeman blogged about this name:

http://throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com/2010/04/just-say-beembo.html

Neal

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

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> I'm sure I would have noticed a commercial for this product if I had
> ever seen it before tonight, but checking the web, I see it must have
> been around for a while:
> http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/bimbo.html
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> They want us to pronounce it "Beembo".  Fat chance of that.
>
> Has the Bimbo bear been around all these years without my running into him?
>
> LH
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