When I was a kid in the 70's there was a Wonder Bread bakery down the street from my grandma's house that sold miniature loaves of Wonder. They were about 6 or 8 inches long, were unsliced, and the bag looked exactly the same as the big loaf. I think they were mainly for the people who took the bakery tour, but you could get them at the bakery thrift store. I would cut them in half long ways and make big sandwiches out of them.
I remember those! I had completely forgotten about those. My mother was a no processed foods of any kind and healthy food only hippy (thankfully) so it was always a treat when visiting my grandmother to get white bread, bologna and sugar cereals.
The local bakery did the same thing, and if you had a birthday party they had a person who’s bring a merry go round to your party and the dude delivering it wore a clown sostume And had a crate of tiny loaves in bags for everyone. And when you drove by the bakery it smelled like heaven. I think it was sunbeam bakery.
My family's bread company was one of those mergers and acquisitions with Wonder Bread around the first quarter of the 20th century! Thanks for the fun history.
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Hello from Denmark. Dark full grain rye is our national pride. We're so proud of it we tend to forget that rye bread is common all over Northern Europe. It's not just us. PS we could buy Graham Bread in bakeries and supermarkets when I was little, but I can't find it any more. Graham flour is finely ground whole grain wheat flour around here. People buy coarse ground whole grain, but then that's not what we call Graham Bread. Oh and aonther mostly forgotten type of bread is "sigtebrød" - sift bread. Made from a mix of finely ground rye and wheat, whith the coarser bran and germ removed.
@@dancoroian1 Yes, that's interesting that Americans, who had named in the video man called Sylvester Graham trying to popularize dark bread, ended up only with graham crackers while Europe feasts itself on Graham bread. In Poland where I live Graham products are quite popular in general, but the most common use for this dough is for the traditional buns, here called 'grahamki'.
Not just northern europe. Versions of pumpernickel are hugely popular around the baltic sea, including poland, sweden, estonia, latvia, lithuania and russia. Even Austria loves it, just ask Toto Wolff
My mom, having been raised during the Depression on her mother's home-baked bread recalled way into her 80's that trading her sandwich for a girlfriend's bakery-sliced white bread lunch was like a real treat. European relatives visiting here in the mid-70's thought white bread tasted like cake.
being from new Zealand my first experience when landing in America with wonderbread was quite eye-opening, it was on a backstage rider table for a band i was touring with and it was the softest white bread id ever seen, i don't know what black magic they used to keep it so soft but it always seemed like it was fresh-baked, so it became a staple on future riders and id save money by making sandwiches for the band van from the cold cuts each show, the next year i had moved up to a bigger band and was on a tour bus and each Walmart stop id buy two loaves of wonderbread and have it stashed in the bus galley. to an outsider, Wonderbread , Smuckers grape jelly and Jif peanut butter was so iconic American it added to my whole experience of touring America and was a daily food addition when i missed catering, woke up at 3am on route to the next festival gig or was in the bus on my own on a day off. when i think back to those tours that bread is a major part of the memory as strange as that sounds. Plus yes it makes a killer bologne sandwich when the PBJ needs a break, also kraft macncheese sandwich, fried chicken sandwich, BBQ leftovers sandwiches, haha
@@mrthomas7511 Uck. Bar S are the absolute worst. Get Zweigles brand. They'll even ship it to you if you can't get it locally. You can thank me after you have one.
Grew up eating homemade white bread as well as store bought white/whole wheat bread. First time I tried 12 grain bread in my teens I was blown away by the taste and texture. White bread just seemed so bland and tasteless (while also being a bit too sweet at the same time). I love the chewiness of multigrain breads/artisan/rye. They make for great sandwiches. Don't get me wrong white bread is great for certain things but 12 grain bread/multigrain (or that type) is just amazing.
A grilled cheese with kraft singles grilled in butter is just plain tasty. Nothing more nothing less. It's a guilty pleasure bc its what I got in 1985 elementary school. I still only like it that way. 😆
The sweetness is probably due to added sugar. White bread shouldn't (well, it needn't, but in my opinion shouldn't) have sugar in it. I agree with your sentiment about white bread having its own right. It was fun hearing about how sentiment switched against dark bread in favor of white only to switch in the opposite direction decades later. Had me thinking, "ah, the sheep, eating with their brains and not their bellies." There's always all these silly ideas and restrictions, ever-changing. Fat bad, carbs bad, white bread bad, dark bread bad, white rice bad, potatoes bad (OMG, muh starches), sugar bad, sweeteners bad, blah blah blah 😂 I have friends that make pizza with cauliflower instead of dough. No, they're not gluten intolerant, they're just on a fad. Gives them something to do, I guess. There's nothing wrong with a beautiful wheat and durum dough, and there's a reason only clueless hippies make pizza dough with full-grain flower. It's because they forgot to taste while being too busy thinking. Empty calories? Let's put you and me in a forest alone. Give me a limitless supply of sugar and you go foraging for berries, let's see who survives longer 😂
In my hometown it was Perfection Bakery and Sunbeam bread. The factory was downtown with a wrapper with a moving wheel of slices making it look like there were tumbling from it. Would smell so good. Supposedly who owns the building is bringing that landmark back.
Odd problem with Wonder Bread. I adopted a nice little cat, I was her 3rd try at a permeant home. ( don't worry, she stayed ). But I did have to store my Wonder bread in a container. She would attack the loaf of bread & rip off All the polka dots on the wrapper. Just the spots, not any other part of the bag was harmed. Only happened when I wasn't home. Didn't do it with any other brand. Strange but true !
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My maternal grandmother's name was Schoenbrodt (German for, 'good bread'). So, obviously bakers in the old country. I just started baking and, I'm getting pretty good at it. Must be in the genes.
As a Boomer kid, I ate a lot of white bread 🍞. Usually Wonder Bread. For some reason, a little while after my Mom started nursing school, she stopped buying white bread, and started buying brown/whole wheat bread. Today the only time I eat white bread it's in the form of a hamburger or hot dog bun.🍔🌭
Well, if your mother went to nursing school, she more than likely had to learn all about the nutritional needs of the human body so she could figure out when a patient was lacking something important in their diet that was causing a sickness (rickets caused by a diet lacking in vitamin D, anemia caused by a lack of iron in the diet, etc.). She then probably compared white bread to wheat bread and noticed how many more nutrients were present in wheat bread and made her decision to switch.
I think ours was mostly Bunny Bread. Nowadays, I can’t stand white bread. It has to be some sort of multigrain. My mother and her husband still eat that stuff 😝.
As a kid in the 70s to mid-80s, Wonder Bread was the only bread in our house. My absolute favourite is Arnold's multigrain bread, but my mother (90) will ONLY eat white bread (Maier's Italian) and claims she just doesn't like the taste of wheat bread. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@@doommagic no way. His mother was from the generation before boomers and boomers are exceedingly stupid. There's no way she had access to that kind of information.
We had a big Wonder Bakery here in Sacramento, It was next to the freeway, when baking and driving by , those are some of my favorites memories as a kid 65+ years ago!!! 🎉 As a Cub Scout (when Cub Scouting was fun and not something warped) we toured the Bakery and received a small loaf and a package of cupcakes - Good Times!!!!
@@victorwadsworth821 I bought Texas Toast when I first got out on my own as a reward of my new freedom. One day I saw the calories, and have been terrified ever since😆 It's so tasty though....
I'm from New Zealand and when I lived in the US I really struggled with American bread, especially Wonder Bread. It tastes too sweet, and artificial, and the texture is awful. I ended up eating bagels all the time as they're the one (affordable) American bread product I liked.
I agree with this. The only breads I eat are made at a local bakery. They make graubrot, fresh sourdough, and a bread called "harvest bread" that has raisins, a bunch of nuts and seeds, parsley, and sun-dried tomatoes in it.
Personally, I’ve grown up only eating really brown and thick bread because my parents wanted the healthiest option. When I had my first white bread ham and cheese sandwich from a friend I understood that the appeal of white bread is not that it tastes good, but it tastes so much like nothing you barely need to put anything inside since it won’t cover up the flavor.
I grew up with Wonder bread too. I ate it because it was there, didn't think much about it... but Oh Boy when the back to health movement came around I embraced the chewier far tastier offerings with abandon and never looked back. Homemade bread and butter can't be beat 😋😋😋😋
I don't know I grew up on wheat bread and whole grain and to me white bread is a far superior experience so I think it comes down to wanting what you didn't/can't have more than any definitive taste superiority.
Whole wheat bread was the norm for our family when I was growing up. Wonder Bread was perfect for making home made MARBLES! I had a large jar filled with those marbles created for a Girl Scout project. Now I'm sliding downhill to seventy and whole wheat, rye, and pumpernickel are the preferred breads in my home.
I’ve never knowingly eaten Wonder Bread. My mother hated it and refused to have it in her house. I was raised on every other kind of bread, but not that. I might have eaten it when given a sandwich elsewhere, but I don’t buy it or ask for it. I also vaguely recall a rather uncomplimentary reference to Wonder Bread in one of Beverly Cleary’s books, but I can’t remember which book.
Strange, since every morning I walk past your window, I notice there is always a loaf of Wonder Bread on your kitchen table. You always leave the twist tie off.
I never had it until my 30s. No way that would be found in my home either, but then I got curious. Meh. It was what I expected. Not bad, but not very healthy, and just about every other kind of bread beats it.
I have not liked white bread since I was a 12-year-old child. I am 74 years old now and still do not eat white bread. Breakfast is a piece of 7-grain bread with half a tablespoon of peanut butter, a piece of fruit, and a cup of coffee (sugar-free and cream-free). I agree with Kimberly that sliced bread was sold for moms!!
I am glad i stumbled on this video . I worked with a Company that removed all the shoots , mixers , and any thing metal in Bloomfield Pa . I also remember going there on a field trip as a little kid and they gave all of us a loaf of sliced bread .
My parents leaned heavily into healthy food when I was growing up in the '70s. No pop in the fridge. Butter, not margarine. They'd prefer that my brother and I ate granola instead of sugary cereals. Bread should be whole grain. One day, a buddy decided to show off his family's new-fangled microwave oven. He proudly took a slice of Wonder Bread, slathered on some Miracle Whip, pulled the plastic off of an individually wrapped slice of Kraft American Cheese, plopped the open faced sandwich on a plastic plate, deposited it into the microwave then blasted it for less than a minute as we watched in amazement. It was the creamiest, tastiest snack I'd ever had. We both chuckled darkly that the highly processed food we'd just "nuked" probably had the same chemical ingredients as the plate -- but were grateful for the astounding 20th century technologies which made this treat possible.
The one thing Germans abroad quickly miss is bread. And although we occasionally eat white bread toast too, its gray mixed wheat and rye flour bread we probably soon miss the most. There is a lot of cheap, industrial baked, sliced and packaged bread in German Supermarkets too, but there also are quite a few traditional bakeries in every city, whose will produce bread with decently rested sourdough. But the REAL good ones are becoming rare too. Often normal bakeries use industrial ready mixed flour with enzymes in it too. And the few bakeries who bake their bred the old way, with lont kneading and long rise and rest times, tend to lure costumers for as much as 40 miles away to their shops.
I'm German and there isn't a single bakery left in my area that actually bakes their bread from start to finish. They all get deliveries of premade loaves and rolls and just apply heat to them. It's nothing I couldn't do at home with my oven, so there's absolutely no added value. I stopped shopping at bakeries as a result and either eat the cheap supermarket crap or bake my own bread.
@@DerLamer That's sad. My German grandparents used to buy bread from the local bakery. No yeast is used and it takes 3 days from start to finish and baked in big brick ovens.
I live in a bigger city and luckily some hipsters decided the time is right to make real bread again and present it modernly. The bread is fantastic and their shop looks like an apple store (I like it, but I can understand if some people think it's too much). Best sourdough bread I've had in years.
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Our field trip to Wonder Bread, was one of my most memorable field trips, as a kid. We each got a loaf of white bread, which was an extra special treat, for me, as my mom only bought wheat bread. The bus ride, back to school, was so satisfying. We each had enough bread to eat _and_ ball up to play with! 😂
I obviously grew up eating white bread, but in Appalachia, we were big Heiner’s and Sunbeam eaters. I have only had Wonder bread a few times and never cared for it. Definitely not named well! 🤣 Loved this video; can’t wait for more!!
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We also took yearly school trips to the local bread factory. Loved it!!! The best part was getting a slice of buttered bread at the end of the tour. They also gave us paper book covers (when that was a thing) a couple of pencils and a wooden ruler.
In the late 50s my mother became quite ill and by 1961 she began to teach me to cook. I was seven years old. Long story short it turned out that we have a very rare genetic disorder that causes auto immune diseases which then turn around give us diabetes and a whole bunch of other things. First they make you very sick. The doctors did not know what was wrong with my mother, so finally she started reading people like Adina Dell, she visited with and spoke with Jack LaLanne, and started looking into what was back then called health food stores. She changed our diet, was experimenting with crushed egg shells in our orange juice for natural sources of calcium and so on and so on. In the process I learned a great deal about the evils of Wonder Bread and synthetic vitamins. We were all doing so much better and we were becoming quite healthy eating organic, fresh baked, fresh cooked food. By the time I was in seventh grade at the age of 13, I was not only an accomplished cook, I had taught myself to bake and I was very good at it. Side note, at 15 I cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people completely from scratch. Every single part of it was from scratch, not a single thing was bought. And it was amazing. And I do not suggest it. Anyway, back to 7th grade. I took a home economics class that focused on nutrition and cooking. You can well imagine my groans as I listened to this teacher talk about how wonder bread was the best bread you could get because it was fortified, better than homemade, whole wheat bread. I told her she was wrong. I explained why. And she got very angry with me. Then she went on to say that medicines that were derived from synthetics, in other words from Petroleum oil outstripped all the natural vitamins, and medicines that came from natural sources. I raise my hand again I said most medicines start out as herbs and flowers and plants and then are later converted into synthetics. That doesn’t necessarily make them better. She told me that they just don’t do that anymore. Actually even to this day 75% or more of all new and current medicines and vitamins have been derive from or are being derived from natural sources. Pharmacopia is huge. I am now 67 years old and I often think of that woman. And I wonder if she remembers me. Because that was 1967 just before the health food boom of the 70s. We’d already been doing it for about almost ten years before it hit the suburbs. Often wonder if she thinks back to that mouthy little girl who told her the truth about Wonder Bread.
I like Wonder Bread, chopped ham and cheese sandwich - with margarine and Miracle Whip! 😀. My mom and dad recalled the 1930’s depression well, and so Mom always used Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise) and Margarine (not butter), and Spam, or canned chicken or tuna for sandwiches. She would fine chop the canned meat into a rough pate, and mix with chopped pickles and miracle whip for the sandwich spread. Tasty 😋
The automatic bread slicing machine was invented in 1928, the same year my dad was invented. I used to tell people that's the greatest thing since my sliced dad.. lol Nobody else got that joke either..
My father grew up during the Depression. He considered brown bread inferior because he associated it with people who couldn't afford the cost of sliced white bread. Until he died, he only ate white bread.
A tidbit I always loved, was how sliced bread was sold to moms. It took a long time in the morning to slice bread and make a bunch of sandwiches for lunch. I think I learned that in a Weird History video.
Notice how that hides a clever little trick. Ask yourself these questions: Why should everyone be in such a hurry in the morning? Why must they leave with sandwiches? Other people’s quest for profit consumes our lives an eventually traps us in a system of slavery we call “freedom.”
Wonder bread is classic. Theres still a wonder bread (and hostess cakes) bakery in Grandview, Missouri. Really its just perfect to sandwich anything with it, doesnt have to be 2 slices, and its fortified with vitamins. Cant beat it. Never went to the bakery, but its funny how Twinkies didnt last as long as that place
As a retired bread man who once worked for Wonder/Hostess, I was not aware that there was any commercial bakery left in Missouri. I started in the business 1972 for Colonial/Rainbow/Manor, and retired 2002 with Interstate/Butternut/ Wonder/Hostess. I still miss the aroma of the occasional bakery visit .....
Plaster and sawdust were added to loaves of bread to increase the weight of the loaf. Loaf prices were set by their weight, and were not sold by the unit, so making a loaf heavier made the loaf more profitable.
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Here in the Nederlands growing up my mum and grandmother both baked bread as they were sure the store bought stuff was poison ,,I've never heard of Wonder bread as its from America ,,,The people in Rotterdam ? Call our bread ..Anna and Justine Vanderhoff bread ..As my family gave to those who fell on hard times ,,The many exstra loafes , Grandma made , The house smelled like a bakery ,,,Sorry for the long comment .
Was never allowed white bread at home growing up. Had it a few times at friends houses. Got to take a field trip to the our local Bunny Bread factory and got a fresh loaf at the end of the tour. still ended up liking the brown and seeded bread as an adult.
My mother didn’t allow Wonderbread in our house she called it Kleenex bread,saying it had the consistency of tissues. I grew up eating Pepperidge Farm white bread,as well as pumpernickel aka dark rye, and regular rye. They would bring back San Francisco sough dough when they visited family a couple of times a year. 🙂
I enjoy a nice loaf of white bread, croissants, and burger/hotdog buns. But for pitas, bagles, tortillas, and pizza crust I prefer whole wheat. I live in the best of both worlds.
When my dad brought home Wonder Bread it was a treat (it was so fluffy compared to generic white bread). Wonder Bread was relatively expensive and so it wasn't our usual bread.
Back in the 80's, I was visiting my grandmother during summer break and asked her why she always burned the toast for breakfast. She replied by telling me her doctor recommended that she ate more brown bread... :-D (True story!)
Damn so that's why my grandma used to burn her bread because "it was good for the stomach", they literally thought burning it would make it into whole wheat bread lmao
While we don’t think much of food safety nowadays (or excessively react to “unhealthy” food), the 1840‘s were a different matter. Bread may not be a big of a deal, but *milk* was, at the post-depression times, thinned with anything from plaster to chalk. Brownstone, Milk Wars : In 19th century New York, the war against swill milk was fought with education, legislation and determination, in an effort to stop the sale and use of milk from diseased and malnourished cows fed a diet of distillery mash, the grain by-product of whiskey and other liquor manufacturing. For most of the 19th century, city children, especially poor children, had no other alternative but to drink this thin blue milk, often further altered by unscrupulous vendors, by the addition of starch, eggs, chalk, and even plaster. Contemporary scientists calculated that half of the deaths of children under the age of five in New York City were caused by the bacteria and germs ingested by this contaminated swill milk. The invention of pasteurization, a simple heating of the milk enough to kill the germs and bacteria, saved thousands of lives. The campaign to bring pasteurized milk to the masses was taken up by the Board of Health, aided by concerned society folk, including Nathan Straus, the wealthy and influential founder of W. H. Macy’s and Brooklyn’s Abraham and Straus.
The Tip Top brand is still present in Australia, and is one of the popular sandwich-type bread brands. Of course, they have many options besides white bread. Brand names that have gone extinct in the US like Woolworths and K-Mart are still around here.
'Gummy' is such a good way to describe it. It sticks to the roof of your mouth and the backs of your upper incisors, I find. I really dislike the texture.
Was anyone else here raised a JW in the 60-70's? There was a rumor in the "organization" that Wonderbread contained some part of animal blood, and that we shouldn't buy or consume it. My mom refused to buy it (but we only got homemade or healthfood store whole wheat anyway). But my JW grandma pooh-poohed it and always had it on the table. I was very very confused as a kid, needless to say.😅
When I was little, my grandmother would take my sister and I to a Hungarian bakery near her home. We would get strudel and bread, made in house. We would stand at the counter and watch the bakers working in the back. It was so cool, and the place smelled amazingly good. She would always buy a light loaf, and a dark loaf for my grandfather.
We were talking about bread the other day, and you mentioned that Wonder Bread is the only kind you use. Now you say the opposite here, in public. I thought we were friends, why did you lie to me?
I have a 20 years old grandson, when I want to tease him, I sweetly offer him a mayonnaise sandwich on wonder bread. That to him is straight up trashy. He only eats whole grain breads and he's not terribly health conscious, he just keenly believes fluffy wonder bread type bread equals low class.
Wonder Bread was expensive in the 1970's so my mother wouldn't buy it. We got the cheap store brand white and whole wheat loaves. My dad would never eat white bread. He did grow up poor but I don't know if that was the reason or not. She also says her community didn't have sliced bread until the late 1950's so it was her job to slice the bread for sandwiches in the morning before school for her parents and siblings. Her mom would alternate between buying loaves and baking them - depending on the price.
I remember way back when air holes in Wonder Bread was a big thing . You would take out a couple of slices and sometimes they would look like Swiss cheese . They figured out how to fix that and there was a TV campaign for a couple of years showing no more holes .
I was a 90s kid we at Mrs. Bairds white bread growing up. My grandmother got a sort of honey wheat. It was around eleven or so that I started to prefer the latter...so the early 2000s. Now I will pay that dollar more for wheat
As a kid in the 50's we used to say "I wonder if it's really bread?" I also remember commercials saying it "helped build strong bodies 8 ways", and a few years later they bumped it up to "builds strong bodies 12 ways"! I WONDERed where they found the extra 4 ways!?
Arriving in the USA from the UK, I never understood why white sliced bread was sweet here, compared to the UK. I have campaigned to local bakeries around Seattle to produce a "British" white sliced loaf to no avail! I'm sure it would sell well (certainly to the many ex-pats)
I've heard some wild WWII stories, one being that as soon as German POWs were fed at American internment camps (given a "wunderbrot" sandwich), they knew Germany had lost the war.
That was my absolute favorite bread! The rest of the family disagreed with my opinion. We only had it on occasion. Now I have angry guts and can never have it again, but I still have the soft bread memories.
I still recall my Sixth-Grade teacher bringing in two Loafs of Bread; One from Arnolds Bakery (Rye, which was usually on my Pastrami + cheese Lunch), and 'Wonder" bread. He took the Arnolds, opened the wrapper, but left the bread in it, then, did an 'Accordian Squeeze' to that loaf. It compressed by almost 25%, so, was 3 inches shorter now. He did the Same to the Wonder-loaf, collapsing it (and it was Longer to Begin with!) down to 2-1/2" of crushed Goo. As he noted, those eating that Wonder-Loaf were, in fact, eating puffed grain, sugar, and Air, a LOT of Air!
Mrs Bairds Bread Salesmen would leave bread in the top of their trucks so when they made a second delivery to major stores, the loaves of bread felt soft & like they were just baked. Working at Wonder, I would leave my bread in the direction of blower heaters to do the same trick in the back rooms of grocery stores. People would think the bread was just baked.
The history of pizza would be cool. I remember when I was a kid in the 60s my friend and I would make Chef-boyardee pizza mixes when staying overnight at her house.
@@TheBigMclargehuge the breads have texture, grains, they are more substantial and have loads of flavor. Stores here only started selling breads like these. There is no comparison to breads like that and a loaf of white made with bleached flour.
@@jeanmkaufmann Maybe you're from a remote town with a population of 12 but I've never lived anywhere that didn't have a grocery store with plenty of wholesome whole grain options. Rye, pumpernickel, ciabatta, hell even the standard sliced loaf isles offer a couple breads that will sprout if you leave them in the dark too long. You're just making up stuff in your head, Europe does not have some kind of magical access to breads which we don't. And all breads are processed.
When I was a kid sometime in the 1960s my class went on a field trip to the local wonderbread factory which is still in existence today.. Back then at the factory the old guy giving the tour took great pains to demonstrate the "wonderful" gigantic vitamin pill mixed in the dough that allegedly represented how Wonder Bread built strong bodies 12 ways.. I bought the line 12 ways to Sunday along with my PF Flyers.. (tennis shoes that could make any kid jump higher and run faster).
As a kid, in the early '60s, I remember my mom going to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread, where getting it "sliced" was an option (I assume an extra-cost option). I always got a bang out of watching the bread slicer, with its vertical cutting bars vibrating up and down; the bread going through, whole at first, then sliced at the end; very exciting for a 5-year-old. Later, as I suppose this video points out as inevitable, she often bought Wonder Bread at the grocery store. I wonder if the "Helps build strong bodies, twelve ways" slogan was what put her over the top? Luckily, mom also made home-baked Sourdough ... the vat of "starter" in the back of the ice box-we were NOT allowed to touch it, with its moist towel laying over the top of it-it was very mysterious to me.
Governor Washburn's efforts ultimately became General Mills, and another prominent family, the Pillsburys,, became their fierce rival until they were acquired by General Mills in 2001.
I saw my first loaf of wonderbread in the 90’s when I saw the movie jumanji and was instantly drawn to the packaging. It’s now my favorite loaf of bread
When I was a kid in the 70's there was a Wonder Bread bakery down the street from my grandma's house that sold miniature loaves of Wonder. They were about 6 or 8 inches long, were unsliced, and the bag looked exactly the same as the big loaf. I think they were mainly for the people who took the bakery tour, but you could get them at the bakery thrift store. I would cut them in half long ways and make big sandwiches out of them.
I remember those! I had completely forgotten about those. My mother was a no processed foods of any kind and healthy food only hippy (thankfully) so it was always a treat when visiting my grandmother to get white bread, bologna and sugar cereals.
Those were givin out for free as promotional items by the bread rep, we used to get baskets of those, they were the best!
That sounds like the cutest thing ever and I want a mini wonder loaf now!!!!!
You can't believe how adorable that mini bread sounds to me
And that's why you're obese.
The local bakery did the same thing, and if you had a birthday party they had a person who’s bring a merry go round to your party and the dude delivering it wore a clown sostume
And had a crate of tiny loaves in bags for everyone. And when you drove by the bakery it smelled like heaven. I think it was sunbeam bakery.
My family's bread company was one of those mergers and acquisitions with Wonder Bread around the first quarter of the 20th century! Thanks for the fun history.
Any benefits you get from the company since your family's company were an early merger from wonderbread?
Will you do one about Tang? I remember, as a kid, that it was a juice the astronauts drank.
did you get more tang than a thirsty astronaut during collage?
I have a Tang pitcher, it's still being used till this day. It's in the fridge with some juice in it right now
I just came across a tang recipe book in my basement boxes this past weekend!
I love tang!
That, and Space Food Sticks.
Please do an episode on communion wafers... Thanks in advance!
also.... a lot of folks think I should be DARKER, but they forget my DAD is as white as they get.
@@thejesuschrist fraud 🤣
@@thejesuschrist fraud 🤣
@@thejesuschrist fraud 🤣
@@thejesuschrist Repent or die twice, Yahuwah God will not be mocked, and you are mocking Him in a very big way... repent you Nimrod!!!
Don't take the Mark of the Beast! (666)
Hello from Denmark. Dark full grain rye is our national pride.
We're so proud of it we tend to forget that rye bread is common all over Northern Europe. It's not just us.
PS we could buy Graham Bread in bakeries and supermarkets when I was little, but I can't find it any more. Graham flour is finely ground whole grain wheat flour around here. People buy coarse ground whole grain, but then that's not what we call Graham Bread.
Oh and aonther mostly forgotten type of bread is "sigtebrød" - sift bread. Made from a mix of finely ground rye and wheat, whith the coarser bran and germ removed.
Interesting :)
Graham bread sounds good... we only get the crackers over here stateside!
but danishes
@@dancoroian1 Yes, that's interesting that Americans, who had named in the video man called Sylvester Graham trying to popularize dark bread, ended up only with graham crackers while Europe feasts itself on Graham bread. In Poland where I live Graham products are quite popular in general, but the most common use for this dough is for the traditional buns, here called 'grahamki'.
Not just northern europe. Versions of pumpernickel are hugely popular around the baltic sea, including poland, sweden, estonia, latvia, lithuania and russia. Even Austria loves it, just ask Toto Wolff
My mom, having been raised during the Depression on her mother's home-baked bread recalled way into her 80's that trading her sandwich for a girlfriend's bakery-sliced white bread lunch was like a real treat.
European relatives visiting here in the mid-70's thought white bread tasted like cake.
I've heard from more than a few non-Americans that our bread, no matter which brand, tastes like cake. WAY too sweet.
@@jekku4688 No matter the brand? That's just them being hyperbolic.
No, she baked bread into her 80s *
No apostrophe there
Relatives visiting in the mid '70s *
your mom had a girlfriend?
Great video Weird History Food. I'm really going to enjoy this channel
being from new Zealand my first experience when landing in America with wonderbread was quite eye-opening, it was on a backstage rider table for a band i was touring with and it was the softest white bread id ever seen, i don't know what black magic they used to keep it so soft but it always seemed like it was fresh-baked, so it became a staple on future riders and id save money by making sandwiches for the band van from the cold cuts each show, the next year i had moved up to a bigger band and was on a tour bus and each Walmart stop id buy two loaves of wonderbread and have it stashed in the bus galley. to an outsider, Wonderbread , Smuckers grape jelly and Jif peanut butter was so iconic American it added to my whole experience of touring America and was a daily food addition when i missed catering, woke up at 3am on route to the next festival gig or was in the bus on my own on a day off. when i think back to those tours that bread is a major part of the memory as strange as that sounds. Plus yes it makes a killer bologne sandwich when the PBJ needs a break, also kraft macncheese sandwich, fried chicken sandwich, BBQ leftovers sandwiches, haha
Microwave some Bar S brand hotdogs and eat it on wonder bread with a squirt of yellow mustard. Then you've had my favorite snack!
@@mrthomas7511 yes!! Though there were times that I didn't heat up the Bar S. 🤭 Threw it on a slice of bread and some mustard. Quick and easy snack.
@@mrthomas7511 Uck. Bar S are the absolute worst. Get Zweigles brand. They'll even ship it to you if you can't get it locally. You can thank me after you have one.
Loved the story. Ok, how do you make that Mac n Cheese sandwich (big smile) ???
@@videoloverboy wondebread , butter instant mac and cheese cooked and hot , Tapatio another slice of bread . Haha basic but tasty
This channel hits different but hits better somehow. And more like a actual show somehow
Grew up eating homemade white bread as well as store bought white/whole wheat bread.
First time I tried 12 grain bread in my teens I was blown away by the taste and texture. White bread just seemed so bland and tasteless (while also being a bit too sweet at the same time). I love the chewiness of multigrain breads/artisan/rye. They make for great sandwiches.
Don't get me wrong white bread is great for certain things but 12 grain bread/multigrain (or that type) is just amazing.
Dave's Power Seed is my thing.
A grilled cheese with kraft singles grilled in butter is just plain tasty. Nothing more nothing less. It's a guilty pleasure bc its what I got in 1985 elementary school. I still only like it that way. 😆
Come to Germany. Our bread is the best.
And Our bread culture is a UNESCO culture Monument.
Yeah but that opinion is subjective, a lot of countries argue on which bread is the best.
The sweetness is probably due to added sugar. White bread shouldn't (well, it needn't, but in my opinion shouldn't) have sugar in it.
I agree with your sentiment about white bread having its own right. It was fun hearing about how sentiment switched against dark bread in favor of white only to switch in the opposite direction decades later. Had me thinking, "ah, the sheep, eating with their brains and not their bellies."
There's always all these silly ideas and restrictions, ever-changing. Fat bad, carbs bad, white bread bad, dark bread bad, white rice bad, potatoes bad (OMG, muh starches), sugar bad, sweeteners bad, blah blah blah 😂
I have friends that make pizza with cauliflower instead of dough. No, they're not gluten intolerant, they're just on a fad. Gives them something to do, I guess. There's nothing wrong with a beautiful wheat and durum dough, and there's a reason only clueless hippies make pizza dough with full-grain flower. It's because they forgot to taste while being too busy thinking.
Empty calories? Let's put you and me in a forest alone. Give me a limitless supply of sugar and you go foraging for berries, let's see who survives longer 😂
In my hometown it was Perfection Bakery and Sunbeam bread. The factory was downtown with a wrapper with a moving wheel of slices making it look like there were tumbling from it. Would smell so good. Supposedly who owns the building is bringing that landmark back.
Odd problem with Wonder Bread. I adopted a nice little cat, I was her 3rd try at a permeant home. ( don't worry, she stayed ). But I did have to store my Wonder bread in a container. She would attack the loaf of bread & rip off All the polka dots on the wrapper. Just the spots, not any other part of the bag was harmed. Only happened when I wasn't home. Didn't do it with any other brand. Strange but true !
That’s pretty cute, using the bread wrapper as target practice.
The way the channel does the content an hour after presenting the other one is amazing. It's like the channel is multitasking.
The trick is, they don't make these videos on the fly. They may have developed an entire series or a set of videos with a theme as a package a month or many months in advance. A really well established content publisher might even have sponsors on contract before they begin creating the content, and they may align the release of each video to their sponsor's other media campaigns. And in some cases it works the other way around, the sponsor's campaign drives the content topics, or whatever.
They might have a dozen videos in a series already uploaded to UA-cam set to be published on a timeline.
Same with tv shows. Most of those are filmed in blocks months in advance. The episode of law and order of blue bloods they show this week was probably filmed two months ago, for example. They may have shot all 13 episodes in a month or two. Then they play each episode once a week for over three months.
Just curious unless I'm missing something I just found this video that have never watched anything here before and after reading your comment I went to see what else they had to offer there are only two videos on this channel...
@@MrScubajsb They are referring to his other channel Weird History.
My maternal grandmother's name was Schoenbrodt (German for, 'good bread'). So, obviously bakers in the old country.
I just started baking and, I'm getting pretty good at it. Must be in the genes.
Go for it! Greetings from Germany
I had a teacher, Mr. Baker, in high school.
As a Boomer kid, I ate a lot of white bread 🍞.
Usually Wonder Bread.
For some reason, a little while after my Mom started nursing school, she stopped buying white bread, and started buying brown/whole wheat bread.
Today the only time I eat white bread it's in the form of a hamburger or hot dog bun.🍔🌭
Well, if your mother went to nursing school, she more than likely had to learn all about the nutritional needs of the human body so she could figure out when a patient was lacking something important in their diet that was causing a sickness (rickets caused by a diet lacking in vitamin D, anemia caused by a lack of iron in the diet, etc.). She then probably compared white bread to wheat bread and noticed how many more nutrients were present in wheat bread and made her decision to switch.
I think ours was mostly Bunny Bread. Nowadays, I can’t stand white bread. It has to be some sort of multigrain. My mother and her husband still eat that stuff 😝.
@@doommagic exactly. Lol
As a kid in the 70s to mid-80s, Wonder Bread was the only bread in our house. My absolute favourite is Arnold's multigrain bread, but my mother (90) will ONLY eat white bread (Maier's Italian) and claims she just doesn't like the taste of wheat bread. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@@doommagic no way. His mother was from the generation before boomers and boomers are exceedingly stupid. There's no way she had access to that kind of information.
We had a big Wonder Bakery here in Sacramento, It was next to the freeway, when baking and driving by , those are some of my favorites memories as a kid 65+ years ago!!! 🎉 As a Cub Scout (when Cub Scouting was fun and not something warped) we toured the Bakery and received a small loaf and a package of cupcakes - Good Times!!!!
White bread's best use is Texas toast. Makes the best toast, sandwiches, garlic bread, and grilled cheesers
For TT, yes, but dark rye grilled cheeses are my personal favorite.
Garlic bread? No no no no, as an italian, im insulted by that! Lol
@@HarborLockRoad What's your favorite for garlic bread?
I sold Texas Toast & loved eating it, I hated white bread with this exception. The key, lots of good butter.
@@victorwadsworth821 I bought Texas Toast when I first got out on my own as a reward of my new freedom. One day I saw the calories, and have been terrified ever since😆 It's so tasty though....
I'm from New Zealand and when I lived in the US I really struggled with American bread, especially Wonder Bread. It tastes too sweet, and artificial, and the texture is awful. I ended up eating bagels all the time as they're the one (affordable) American bread product I liked.
I agree with this. The only breads I eat are made at a local bakery. They make graubrot, fresh sourdough, and a bread called "harvest bread" that has raisins, a bunch of nuts and seeds, parsley, and sun-dried tomatoes in it.
Personally, I’ve grown up only eating really brown and thick bread because my parents wanted the healthiest option. When I had my first white bread ham and cheese sandwich from a friend I understood that the appeal of white bread is not that it tastes good, but it tastes so much like nothing you barely need to put anything inside since it won’t cover up the flavor.
Yes.. I'm sure that 1.5g of sugar really made it taste so sweet.... 🤣
Agreed. I can only eat this super fluffy style of bread for a pb&j. Even for a sandwich, i'll take almost any other kind of bread happily.
So you never heard a whole wheat? Rye? Pumpernickel? Oatmeal bread? There are literally 100 different varieties of bread and you settled on bagels?
I grew up with Wonder bread too. I ate it because it was there, didn't think much about it... but Oh Boy when the back to health movement came around I embraced the chewier far tastier offerings with abandon and never looked back. Homemade bread and butter can't be beat 😋😋😋😋
I don't know I grew up on wheat bread and whole grain and to me white bread is a far superior experience so I think it comes down to wanting what you didn't/can't have more than any definitive taste superiority.
Whole wheat bread was the norm for our family when I was growing up. Wonder Bread was perfect for making home made MARBLES! I had a large jar filled with those marbles created for a Girl Scout project. Now I'm sliding downhill to seventy and whole wheat, rye, and pumpernickel are the preferred breads in my home.
Ahhhh back to back release from Weird History? Best way the end the weekend :’D
I’ve never knowingly eaten Wonder Bread. My mother hated it and refused to have it in her house. I was raised on every other kind of bread, but not that. I might have eaten it when given a sandwich elsewhere, but I don’t buy it or ask for it. I also vaguely recall a rather uncomplimentary reference to Wonder Bread in one of Beverly Cleary’s books, but I can’t remember which book.
Strange, since every morning I walk past your window, I notice there is always a loaf of Wonder Bread on your kitchen table. You always leave the twist tie off.
RIBSY DIES OF WONDER
I never had it until my 30s. No way that would be found in my home either, but then I got curious. Meh. It was what I expected. Not bad, but not very healthy, and just about every other kind of bread beats it.
I have not liked white bread since I was a 12-year-old child. I am 74 years old now and still do not eat white bread. Breakfast is a piece of 7-grain bread with half a tablespoon of peanut butter, a piece of fruit, and a cup of coffee (sugar-free and cream-free). I agree with Kimberly that sliced bread was sold for moms!!
Okay boomer.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer Proud of it!!
@@donsumner9268 You should be eating steaks every meal, drinking whiskey like water and smoking like a chimney if you want to make it to 84.
@@nobodyspecial4702 If that is the way you wish to live your life, go for it!!
@@donsumner9268 It's too late for me. I was raised eating healthy food. I'll be lucky to hit 60 before I die.
I am glad i stumbled on this video . I worked with a Company that removed all the shoots , mixers , and any thing metal in Bloomfield Pa . I also remember going there on a field trip as a little kid and they gave all of us a loaf of sliced bread .
Two things I ate as a kid that I wouldn’t touch now - Wonder Bread and any type of Swanson’s Hungry-Man TV dinners.
Same
Guilty of eating Swanson’s Hungry Man turkey dinner once or twice a year! 🤫😁
I fuckin hate hungry man
The Salisbury steaks were good tho 😩
@@kirawilliams5785 yea if u made a sandwich out of it lol put the mashed potato on top with the gravy that's a good ass sandwich lol
My parents leaned heavily into healthy food when I was growing up in the '70s. No pop in the fridge. Butter, not margarine. They'd prefer that my brother and I ate granola instead of sugary cereals. Bread should be whole grain.
One day, a buddy decided to show off his family's new-fangled microwave oven. He proudly took a slice of Wonder Bread, slathered on some Miracle Whip, pulled the plastic off of an individually wrapped slice of Kraft American Cheese, plopped the open faced sandwich on a plastic plate, deposited it into the microwave then blasted it for less than a minute as we watched in amazement.
It was the creamiest, tastiest snack I'd ever had.
We both chuckled darkly that the highly processed food we'd just "nuked" probably had the same chemical ingredients as the plate -- but were grateful for the astounding 20th century technologies which made this treat possible.
'70s *
Of course, these days a lot of the "granola" is loaded in sweetener too...
This video made me make a PB&J sandwich. I haven’t had one in years.
In Australia we have Vegemite and cheese from the drop bears penis
My favorite twist on PB&J is to get some cranberry walnut bread, and make a sandwich with almond butter and cherry preserves.
I wonder"
why ...
I had a fluffernutter & I stick pretzels in the middle,***
Lol😁
@@YoSpiff THAT sounds good!👍👍👍
The one thing Germans abroad quickly miss is bread.
And although we occasionally eat white bread toast too, its gray mixed wheat and rye flour bread we probably soon miss the most.
There is a lot of cheap, industrial baked, sliced and packaged bread in German Supermarkets too, but there also are quite a few traditional bakeries in every city,
whose will produce bread with decently rested sourdough. But the REAL good ones are becoming rare too. Often normal bakeries use industrial ready mixed flour with enzymes in it too.
And the few bakeries who bake their bred the old way, with lont kneading and long rise and rest times, tend to lure costumers for as much as 40 miles away to their shops.
I'm German and there isn't a single bakery left in my area that actually bakes their bread from start to finish. They all get deliveries of premade loaves and rolls and just apply heat to them. It's nothing I couldn't do at home with my oven, so there's absolutely no added value. I stopped shopping at bakeries as a result and either eat the cheap supermarket crap or bake my own bread.
@@DerLamer That's sad. My German grandparents used to buy bread from the local bakery. No yeast is used and it takes 3 days from start to finish and baked in big brick ovens.
I live in a bigger city and luckily some hipsters decided the time is right to make real bread again and present it modernly. The bread is fantastic and their shop looks like an apple store (I like it, but I can understand if some people think it's too much).
Best sourdough bread I've had in years.
Your researchers, writers and of course the vocal stylings of Mr. Tom Blank are just wonderful. Whatever you do, I always watch. Please keep it up and tell Mr. Blank to make sure it stays sassy!
Wonderfulbread?
He must be related to Mel...
Thank you for revealing the moniker of WH/WHF's amazing narrator! I, too, adore his sassiness. 😁
EDIT: I was thoroughly wrong about Mel Blanc's heritage and feel like a massive idget (in Yosemite Sam voice). I truly and humbly apologize.
@@emmgeevideo Sorry to burst your bubble, but Mel Blanc, undisputed and unparalleled King of Voice Characterizations for Bugs Bunny, Merrie Melodies, Looney Toons, and SO many more, is very unlikely to be related to our much-loved, much-appreciated, and incredibly sassy Tom Blank, as their names are spelled quite differently (Mel Blanc vs. Tom Blank, assuming the other commenter is correct). In addition, not that it makes a big difference, but King Mel was African-American, and Tom is white. Have a great day!
@@loisreese2692 It was a joke. A weak one I'll admit. Everyone knows about the legendary Mel Blanc... Of a certain age that is. BTW, is it spelled "anal retentive" or "anal-retentive"? (That should keep you going for a while...)
Our field trip to Wonder Bread, was one of my most memorable field trips, as a kid. We each got a loaf of white bread, which was an extra special treat, for me, as my mom only bought wheat bread. The bus ride, back to school, was so satisfying. We each had enough bread to eat _and_ ball up to play with! 😂
I obviously grew up eating white bread, but in Appalachia, we were big Heiner’s and Sunbeam eaters. I have only had Wonder bread a few times and never cared for it. Definitely not named well! 🤣
Loved this video; can’t wait for more!!
honestly, sunbeam is pretty good. I love it
Most of the time I hate the UA-cam algorithm. Today I’m thankful for it! Weird History showed up and I watched and watched and watched… and I’ll continue to watch bc it’s absolutely fantastic content.
Ah that familiar voice that makes history interesting to listen to!
Hey man, I listen to UA-cam all day long, your video got a few good chuckles and smiles out of me my first time listening to your channel, thank you for the great content, a earned a sub
Interesting.
We always ate whole wheat bread, from the day-old bakery.
Went on a school trip to a Wonder Bread factory.
I remember going on a tour like that too
We also took yearly school trips to the local bread factory. Loved it!!! The best part was getting a slice of buttered bread at the end of the tour. They also gave us paper book covers (when that was a thing) a couple of pencils and a wooden ruler.
In the late 50s my mother became quite ill and by 1961 she began to teach me to cook. I was seven years old. Long story short it turned out that we have a very rare genetic disorder that causes auto immune diseases which then turn around give us diabetes and a whole bunch of other things. First they make you very sick. The doctors did not know what was wrong with my mother, so finally she started reading people like Adina Dell, she visited with and spoke with Jack LaLanne, and started looking into what was back then called health food stores. She changed our diet, was experimenting with crushed egg shells in our orange juice for natural sources of calcium and so on and so on. In the process I learned a great deal about the evils of Wonder Bread and synthetic vitamins. We were all doing so much better and we were becoming quite healthy eating organic, fresh baked, fresh cooked food. By the time I was in seventh grade at the age of 13, I was not only an accomplished cook, I had taught myself to bake and I was very good at it. Side note, at 15 I cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people completely from scratch. Every single part of it was from scratch, not a single thing was bought. And it was amazing. And I do not suggest it. Anyway, back to 7th grade. I took a home economics class that focused on nutrition and cooking. You can well imagine my groans as I listened to this teacher talk about how wonder bread was the best bread you could get because it was fortified, better than homemade, whole wheat bread. I told her she was wrong. I explained why. And she got very angry with me. Then she went on to say that medicines that were derived from synthetics, in other words from Petroleum oil outstripped all the natural vitamins, and medicines that came from natural sources. I raise my hand again I said most medicines start out as herbs and flowers and plants and then are later converted into synthetics. That doesn’t necessarily make them better. She told me that they just don’t do that anymore. Actually even to this day 75% or more of all new and current medicines and vitamins have been derive from or are being derived from natural sources. Pharmacopia is huge. I am now 67 years old and I often think of that woman. And I wonder if she remembers me. Because that was 1967 just before the health food boom of the 70s. We’d already been doing it for about almost ten years before it hit the suburbs. Often wonder if she thinks back to that mouthy little girl who told her the truth about Wonder Bread.
I'm just happy wonder bread is back! It taste so good.
I like Wonder Bread, chopped ham and cheese sandwich - with margarine and Miracle Whip! 😀.
My mom and dad recalled the 1930’s depression well, and so Mom always used Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise) and Margarine (not butter), and Spam, or canned chicken or tuna for sandwiches. She would fine chop the canned meat into a rough pate, and mix with chopped pickles and miracle whip for the sandwich spread. Tasty 😋
Love this series, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread 😁
Sliced “white” bread of course!
Agree 💯
The automatic bread slicing machine was invented in 1928, the same year my dad was invented. I used to tell people that's the greatest thing since my sliced dad.. lol Nobody else got that joke either..
@@martinoamello3017 lol. Love that!
I see what you did there!
A+ video!
What a fascinating history of Wonder Bread! Had no idea that it had such a powerful cultural impact!
My father grew up during the Depression. He considered brown bread inferior because he associated it with people who couldn't afford the cost of sliced white bread. Until he died, he only ate white bread.
White bread: digging your grave with. your teeth.
@@stephaniekrawiec6758 And the irony is that seedy, whole-grain artisanal loaves are the ones that cost the most now.
Just shows the degree of brainwashing, and how many succumb to it.
@@maryfreebed9886
"But like, this bread is real man. Not like that corporate bread."
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 I like rosemary and caraway and such in my bread. I am also very fond of Rubschlager Pumpernickel.
freakin love wonder bread, especially when trying to eat less carbs. lasts 4-5 weeks without molding and barely even stale. i think they irradiate it
Why would plastic mold? Wonderbread = I wonder if this is bread
A tidbit I always loved, was how sliced bread was sold to moms. It took a long time in the morning to slice bread and make a bunch of sandwiches for lunch. I think I learned that in a Weird History video.
Notice how that hides a clever little trick. Ask yourself these questions: Why should everyone be in such a hurry in the morning? Why must they leave with sandwiches?
Other people’s quest for profit consumes our lives an eventually traps us in a system of slavery we call “freedom.”
@@phaedrussmith1949 capitalism 🤝🛐🥵
@@phaedrussmith1949 and advertising strategies
That's why you need to have a breadsaw at home.
@@johanneskuhrt146 😩🤌
Wonder bread is classic. Theres still a wonder bread (and hostess cakes) bakery in Grandview, Missouri. Really its just perfect to sandwich anything with it, doesnt have to be 2 slices, and its fortified with vitamins.
Cant beat it. Never went to the bakery, but its funny how Twinkies didnt last as long as that place
As a retired bread man who once worked for Wonder/Hostess, I was not aware that there was any commercial bakery left in Missouri. I started in the business 1972 for Colonial/Rainbow/Manor, and retired 2002 with Interstate/Butternut/ Wonder/Hostess. I still miss the aroma of the occasional bakery visit .....
Can you do a show on the history of BBQ sauce? So many different flavors from various parts of the country.
Absolutely in love with this new channel!❤
Plaster and sawdust were added to loaves of bread to increase the weight of the loaf. Loaf prices were set by their weight, and were not sold by the unit, so making a loaf heavier made the loaf more profitable.
Fresh Horizon
In Europe. Important part you left out there.
@@nobodyspecial4702 No, this happened in _both_ the U.S. and Europe. It _started_ in the U.S.
And that's why every load I make is at least 30% cement :D
Sawdust was also added to bread as a filler in the USSR to cover wheat shortages.
😐39.3k subscribers for now...but I feel like I have found a sleeping giant of a channel, and it's filled with great resolve.
I expect your work will find the same success that similar content creators such as "company man" and a few others in this niche have found.
Your content digs a bit deeper into the detailed advertising and marketing aspects, which sets you apart from the others in your field.
The channel name locks you into one topic for now, but once you've solidly established yourself, you'll be able to branch away or branch off, if that ever starts feeling restrictive. Anyway, all that nonsense aside, i really enjoyed your work and I hope you continue to put out this content.
"Best thing since sliced bread" why did I always think this statement was created at the beginning of time ??
Would love a rundown of how sushi became so popular here in the U.S. after being practically nonexistent since the country's founding.
Yuppies.
Increase of Asian immigrants and yuppies
Trendies.
@@ipissed Tendies?
Because it tastes amazing
Here in the Nederlands growing up my mum and grandmother both baked bread as they were sure the store bought stuff was poison ,,I've never heard of Wonder bread as its from America ,,,The people in Rotterdam ? Call our bread ..Anna and Justine Vanderhoff bread ..As my family gave to those who fell on hard times ,,The many exstra loafes , Grandma made , The house smelled like a bakery ,,,Sorry for the long comment .
Be glad you haven't heard of it, it's like glue. Bleck🤪 Lol, saying this after saying I liked Texas Toast, but seriously, it's not good bread.
Was never allowed white bread at home growing up. Had it a few times at friends houses. Got to take a field trip to the our local Bunny Bread factory and got a fresh loaf at the end of the tour. still ended up liking the brown and seeded bread as an adult.
My mother didn’t allow Wonderbread in our house she called it Kleenex bread,saying it had the consistency of tissues. I grew up eating Pepperidge Farm white bread,as well as pumpernickel aka dark rye, and regular rye. They would bring back San Francisco sough dough when they visited family a couple of times a year. 🙂
I remember.
@@roadkillgravy5168 Pepperidge Farm remembers
Damn that San Francisco sour dough bread was good. Probably the best bread in the world!
Yes, with my mom it was wheat bread or nothing.
Respect to your mom! Kleenex, lol😁 I call it glue
Been watching your channel for a long time, I love it and it has the best narrator on UA-cam. Please make a video on some Aussie foods
Posting this after the cheese video is like you’re making a virtual grilled cheese
haha
As a baker, I absolutely love this video
I enjoy a nice loaf of white bread, croissants, and burger/hotdog buns. But for pitas, bagles, tortillas, and pizza crust I prefer whole wheat. I live in the best of both worlds.
There's a big difference between white bread, and over processed bread. There are very good breads out there, white, brown, grainy; enjoy them all😋🧡
When my dad brought home Wonder Bread it was a treat (it was so fluffy compared to generic white bread). Wonder Bread was relatively expensive and so it wasn't our usual bread.
Back in the 80's, I was visiting my grandmother during summer break and asked her why she always burned the toast for breakfast. She replied by telling me her doctor recommended that she ate more brown bread... :-D (True story!)
I love that! Sounds like something I would do 🤭
Damn so that's why my grandma used to burn her bread because "it was good for the stomach", they literally thought burning it would make it into whole wheat bread lmao
Great now they'll get diabetes from the bread and cancer from the burnt parts
'80s *
Doesn't the char reduce acid in the stomach or something
While we don’t think much of food safety nowadays (or excessively react to “unhealthy” food), the 1840‘s were a different matter. Bread may not be a big of a deal, but *milk* was, at the post-depression times, thinned with anything from plaster to chalk.
Brownstone, Milk Wars : In 19th century New York, the war against swill milk was fought with education, legislation and determination, in an effort to stop the sale and use of milk from diseased and malnourished cows fed a diet of distillery mash, the grain by-product of whiskey and other liquor manufacturing. For most of the 19th century, city children, especially poor children, had no other alternative but to drink this thin blue milk, often further altered by unscrupulous vendors, by the addition of starch, eggs, chalk, and even plaster. Contemporary scientists calculated that half of the deaths of children under the age of five in New York City were caused by the bacteria and germs ingested by this contaminated swill milk. The invention of pasteurization, a simple heating of the milk enough to kill the germs and bacteria, saved thousands of lives.
The campaign to bring pasteurized milk to the masses was taken up by the Board of Health, aided by concerned society folk, including Nathan Straus, the wealthy and influential founder of W. H. Macy’s and Brooklyn’s Abraham and Straus.
i would like to hear about the rise and fall of the tv dinner.
TV Dinner is def going to get made!
@@weirdhistoryfood thank you!
The Tip Top brand is still present in Australia, and is one of the popular sandwich-type bread brands. Of course, they have many options besides white bread.
Brand names that have gone extinct in the US like Woolworths and K-Mart are still around here.
I find white bread tasteless and gummy, much prefer a brown loaf (especially if it's seeded )
'Gummy' is such a good way to describe it. It sticks to the roof of your mouth and the backs of your upper incisors, I find. I really dislike the texture.
I think i just found my favorite UA-cam station!
Was anyone else here raised a JW in the 60-70's? There was a rumor in the "organization" that Wonderbread contained some part of animal blood, and that we shouldn't buy or consume it. My mom refused to buy it (but we only got homemade or healthfood store whole wheat anyway). But my JW grandma pooh-poohed it and always had it on the table. I was very very confused as a kid, needless to say.😅
When I was little, my grandmother would take my sister and I to a Hungarian bakery near her home. We would get strudel and bread, made in house. We would stand at the counter and watch the bakers working in the back. It was so cool, and the place smelled amazingly good. She would always buy a light loaf, and a dark loaf for my grandfather.
I don't think I've ever had Wonder Bread. My mom always bought fresh bread at a local bakery. 🍞 🙂🇨🇦
We were talking about bread the other day, and you mentioned that Wonder Bread is the only kind you use. Now you say the opposite here, in public. I thought we were friends, why did you lie to me?
Hi Jean
I have a 20 years old grandson, when I want to tease him, I sweetly offer him a mayonnaise sandwich on wonder bread. That to him is straight up trashy. He only eats whole grain breads and he's not terribly health conscious, he just keenly believes fluffy wonder bread type bread equals low class.
Wonder Bread was expensive in the 1970's so my mother wouldn't buy it. We got the cheap store brand white and whole wheat loaves. My dad would never eat white bread. He did grow up poor but I don't know if that was the reason or not. She also says her community didn't have sliced bread until the late 1950's so it was her job to slice the bread for sandwiches in the morning before school for her parents and siblings. Her mom would alternate between buying loaves and baking them - depending on the price.
Thank goodness my parents never bought this bread for our family. We grew up in an area of Manhattan that had plenty of bakeries.
As I grew older my mom started feeding my siblings and me whole wheat bread.
I remember way back when air holes in Wonder Bread was a big thing . You would take out a couple of slices and sometimes they would look like Swiss cheese . They figured out how to fix that and there was a TV campaign for a couple of years showing no more holes .
I was a 90s kid we at Mrs. Bairds white bread growing up. My grandmother got a sort of honey wheat. It was around eleven or so that I started to prefer the latter...so the early 2000s. Now I will pay that dollar more for wheat
K cool story
As a kid in the 50's we used to say "I wonder if it's really bread?" I also remember commercials saying it "helped build strong bodies 8 ways", and a few years later they bumped it up to "builds strong bodies 12 ways"! I WONDERed where they found the extra 4 ways!?
During the early - mid 70s, those commercials were proven fraudulent.
@@katherineirving7189 Oh, yeah! It has to be the worst thing you could ever eat!
I grew up eating Wonder bread. I love the colorful circles on the packaging more than the bread 🤣
Thumbs down... u mean the balloons?
Excellent informative documentary...
One of my jokes is--- oh my goodness___ they must eat Wonder Bread,,,
Not brite.lol)
Whoa. Where did this channel come from? Hell yeah. One of my favorite narrators
Between this video and the one on cheese earlier on WH, I want a grilled cheese sandwich now!
Yes 👍 Absolutely 😂✅
Arriving in the USA from the UK, I never understood why white sliced bread was sweet here, compared to the UK. I have campaigned to local bakeries around Seattle to produce a "British" white sliced loaf to no avail! I'm sure it would sell well (certainly to the many ex-pats)
I knew a woman whose family designed the Ward Baking Company bakeries in Pittsburgh.
Love the Coldplay reference. Perfect timing 👌
I've heard some wild WWII stories, one being that as soon as German POWs were fed at American internment camps (given a "wunderbrot" sandwich), they knew Germany had lost the war.
More importantly, the reason there were so few Japanese prisoners taken was that they were told POW's in America get fed spam.
@@nobodyspecial4702 No.
I love listening to these while I'm doing chores
That was my absolute favorite bread! The rest of the family disagreed with my opinion. We only had it on occasion. Now I have angry guts and can never have it again, but I still have the soft bread memories.
Angry guts, thats gotta be a bitch
Great video, very entertaining & informative! Oh, & love the Coldplay reference: perfect analogy!
I would like to hear about the historical shocking tale of the cannibals of nizinski Island next. It's historical and technically food related! 👍
I still recall my Sixth-Grade teacher bringing in two Loafs of Bread; One from Arnolds Bakery (Rye, which was usually on my Pastrami + cheese Lunch), and 'Wonder" bread. He took the Arnolds, opened the wrapper, but left the bread in it, then, did an 'Accordian Squeeze' to that loaf. It compressed by almost 25%, so, was 3 inches shorter now. He did the Same to the Wonder-loaf, collapsing it (and it was Longer to Begin with!) down to 2-1/2" of crushed Goo. As he noted, those eating that Wonder-Loaf were, in fact, eating puffed grain, sugar, and Air, a LOT of Air!
I know it's probably not the best for us, but I love my white bread! P.S. I grew up in Georgia where white bread is a staple of life! 😂
Il never give up my white bread
same here 😌
Try some Potato bread
If it aint white bread, I ain’t eating it! Lol nah ill eat wheat occasionally but i love my white bread
Lmao bread is perfectly fine, it’s our lifestyles that aren’t
Mrs Bairds Bread Salesmen would leave bread in the top of their trucks so when they made a second delivery to major stores, the loaves of bread felt soft & like they were just baked. Working at Wonder, I would leave my bread in the direction of blower heaters to do the same trick in the back rooms of grocery stores. People would think the bread was just baked.
The history of pizza would be cool. I remember when I was a kid in the 60s my friend and I would make Chef-boyardee pizza mixes when staying overnight at her house.
Excellent presentation, thank you !
I remember "Tip Top" bread !
I went to Europe and realized how gross u.s. processed foods are... especially processed bread : (
The bread varieties in Europe are incredible.
All bread is by definition processed. What the hell are you talking about
@@TheBigMclargehuge the breads have texture, grains, they are more substantial and have loads of flavor. Stores here only started selling breads like these. There is no comparison to breads like that and a loaf of white made with bleached flour.
@@jeanmkaufmann Maybe you're from a remote town with a population of 12 but I've never lived anywhere that didn't have a grocery store with plenty of wholesome whole grain options. Rye, pumpernickel, ciabatta, hell even the standard sliced loaf isles offer a couple breads that will sprout if you leave them in the dark too long. You're just making up stuff in your head, Europe does not have some kind of magical access to breads which we don't. And all breads are processed.
Your eyes have been opened!
My mom used to work at a wonder bread warehouse. She told us boys to eat wheat bread because while bread was linked to prostate cancer.
My mom never bought Wonder Bread. She liked Bond Bread.
When I was a kid sometime in the 1960s my class went on a field trip to the local wonderbread factory which is still in existence today.. Back then at the factory the old guy giving the tour took great pains to demonstrate the "wonderful" gigantic vitamin pill mixed in the dough that allegedly represented how Wonder Bread built strong bodies 12 ways.. I bought the line 12 ways to Sunday along with my PF Flyers.. (tennis shoes that could make any kid jump higher and run faster).
The Coldplay crack🤣
As a kid, in the early '60s, I remember my mom going to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread, where getting it "sliced" was an option (I assume an extra-cost option).
I always got a bang out of watching the bread slicer, with its vertical cutting bars vibrating up and down; the bread going through, whole at first, then sliced at the end; very exciting for a 5-year-old.
Later, as I suppose this video points out as inevitable, she often bought Wonder Bread at the grocery store. I wonder if the "Helps build strong bodies, twelve ways" slogan was what put her over the top?
Luckily, mom also made home-baked Sourdough ... the vat of "starter" in the back of the ice box-we were NOT allowed to touch it, with its moist towel laying over the top of it-it was very mysterious to me.
I used to live next to a wonder bread factory. It smelled so good.
Governor Washburn's efforts ultimately became General Mills, and another prominent family, the Pillsburys,, became their fierce rival until they were acquired by General Mills in 2001.
Love wheat bread 🍞 as a kid people would call me old lmao
I saw my first loaf of wonderbread in the 90’s when I saw the movie jumanji and was instantly drawn to the packaging. It’s now my favorite loaf of bread