@RiotDemon I remember the first time I saw a commercial for Bimbo bread. I’m thinking WTF? Then do a little research and see that they’re a company based in Mexico.
@Lazarpandar They are taking over baking in the US, it usta be the Entenmann’s and Arnold’s bakery store that sold day old stuff. They still sell under the Arnolds name, also Thomas’s muffins. Bimbo has been buying capacity in the US.
I was just in Ecuador and actually stopped and took a photo of this bimbo bread because I thought it was pretty funny.
(Pan de Pasqua is basically a Chilean version of panettone - it literally means Easter bread, but is actually Christmas bread, because Chileans use both Navidad and Pasqua as words for Christmas)
And now, just two weeks later, it is relevant on meh!
@dashcloud Revenue started dropping off sharply in the clubs locally around 10-15 years ago. It was in decline even before that. Twenty years ago, the clubs would be packed and open every day of the year except Christmas Day, but some would re-open late Christmas Day evening - in the early nineties business was so good they never closed. None are open today or tomorrow and business will be down on Monday to the point where many smaller clubs may remain closed until Wednesday evening. The golden days are gone, at least in this area. There are a few promotions left to be had - but none worth mentioning.
The dip in revenues are tied, IMO, directly to 1) the Internet 2) the acceptance, by club management, of female customers, whether accompanied by a male or not 3) over-saturation 4) classification of dancers as employees and not independent contractors. Every decline, whether it be in available talent pool, drink pricing, VIP room perks / benefits, etc, can be tied / attributed directly to those four items, in that order.
@dashcloud The more I have been thinking about it, the more I want to expound my answer in regard to the changing milieu at gentleman’s clubs. In the early to mid-80’s, there was another major shift. Men stopped using the clubs as a place to do business . . . once there was a time when you could find very well appointed and delicious buffets with quiet and semi-private rooms for doing business and entertaining a client, and having a drink. The “show” was far down the list - maybe even last on many lists. And the “lap-dance” didn’t really exist. Then things changed and the real money left the clubs, when the owners adopted a quick dollar peep show mentality and lap-dancing hit big time. Suddenly it was all cocaine and fake tits and it degenerated to the point where you would see blow-jobs given out in the open, table-side. You couldn’t walk a client into that hot mess, let alone would you want to go by yourself or a group of guys unless your goal was to get your rocks off. There was a time when wait staff would fight over a job opening at an exotic club, and the food and drink and table service could equal or exceed that which one might find at a Michelin one starred restaurant. It was a gentleman’s social club with an exotic show (twist), and perhaps the ability to hook up discreetly outside the club with women displaying couth. Wait-staff made career money. Dancers were paid very, very well and respected. But it quickly became all about sex and grabbing a buck.
IMO, the reason: the arrival and subsequent ubiquity of (as prices fell) VHS.
Lap dances meant another change. I knew a girl who put herself thru a reasonably prestigious college (US News top 50) working part time as a dancer at a high end titty bar way back when. I know a lot of the clientele wants to think the entertainers are all college girls - well this one really was. English major, back when English majors were considered employable. She went on to do quite nicely in a serious professional career later on.
Trust the Russians
is this a euphemism for whore house? because i’d like to know what brothel sells mcmuffin fixins.
@carl669 lol
/image bimbo bread truck
@carl669 I think McMuffin was also a euphemism - An excellent source of protein and of so delicious.
@RiotDemon so it’s a mobile brothel?
@sligett you just had to go there, didn’t you?
@RiotDemon I remember the first time I saw a commercial for Bimbo bread. I’m thinking WTF? Then do a little research and see that they’re a company based in Mexico.
@lisaviolet I had no idea it was a thing until someone sent me a photo of the truck driving by a few years ago.
“Beem bo”.
@narfcake How is there a bimbo store? Does it sell more than bread? Also, that sandwich is already a mess in that tin.
@Lazarpandar They are taking over baking in the US, it usta be the Entenmann’s and Arnold’s bakery store that sold day old stuff. They still sell under the Arnolds name, also Thomas’s muffins. Bimbo has been buying capacity in the US.
I was just in Ecuador and actually stopped and took a photo of this bimbo bread because I thought it was pretty funny.
(Pan de Pasqua is basically a Chilean version of panettone - it literally means Easter bread, but is actually Christmas bread, because Chileans use both Navidad and Pasqua as words for Christmas)
And now, just two weeks later, it is relevant on meh!
And here I thought the bimbo store was my local strip-club.
@Pavlov No this one actually has a sign that says Bimbo on it.
@cranky1950
My father used to tell some stories about how wild Bimbo’s 365 in SF was back in the day. The place is still open, but minus the showgirls I’m sure.
@Pavlov What specials/promotions is the local strip club running around the holidays? Do they close for Christmas?
@dashcloud Revenue started dropping off sharply in the clubs locally around 10-15 years ago. It was in decline even before that. Twenty years ago, the clubs would be packed and open every day of the year except Christmas Day, but some would re-open late Christmas Day evening - in the early nineties business was so good they never closed. None are open today or tomorrow and business will be down on Monday to the point where many smaller clubs may remain closed until Wednesday evening. The golden days are gone, at least in this area. There are a few promotions left to be had - but none worth mentioning.
The dip in revenues are tied, IMO, directly to 1) the Internet 2) the acceptance, by club management, of female customers, whether accompanied by a male or not 3) over-saturation 4) classification of dancers as employees and not independent contractors. Every decline, whether it be in available talent pool, drink pricing, VIP room perks / benefits, etc, can be tied / attributed directly to those four items, in that order.
@Pavlov
That damned internet. Ruins everything.
@dashcloud The more I have been thinking about it, the more I want to expound my answer in regard to the changing milieu at gentleman’s clubs. In the early to mid-80’s, there was another major shift. Men stopped using the clubs as a place to do business . . . once there was a time when you could find very well appointed and delicious buffets with quiet and semi-private rooms for doing business and entertaining a client, and having a drink. The “show” was far down the list - maybe even last on many lists. And the “lap-dance” didn’t really exist. Then things changed and the real money left the clubs, when the owners adopted a quick dollar peep show mentality and lap-dancing hit big time. Suddenly it was all cocaine and fake tits and it degenerated to the point where you would see blow-jobs given out in the open, table-side. You couldn’t walk a client into that hot mess, let alone would you want to go by yourself or a group of guys unless your goal was to get your rocks off. There was a time when wait staff would fight over a job opening at an exotic club, and the food and drink and table service could equal or exceed that which one might find at a Michelin one starred restaurant. It was a gentleman’s social club with an exotic show (twist), and perhaps the ability to hook up discreetly outside the club with women displaying couth. Wait-staff made career money. Dancers were paid very, very well and respected. But it quickly became all about sex and grabbing a buck.
IMO, the reason: the arrival and subsequent ubiquity of (as prices fell) VHS.
@Pavlov
Lap dances meant another change. I knew a girl who put herself thru a reasonably prestigious college (US News top 50) working part time as a dancer at a high end titty bar way back when. I know a lot of the clientele wants to think the entertainers are all college girls - well this one really was. English major, back when English majors were considered employable. She went on to do quite nicely in a serious professional career later on.
She never would have worked in a lap-dance place.
They also own Wonder Bread.