Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[Johnphotoman]

I asked this question back in 2021; is it Bond Bread or Bond Homogenize Bread. This was around the time I joined net54baseball,com. Now, I had been reading the forum since around 2010. But I joined so I could ask questions about all the cards we call Bond Bread.

It is the trivial details that can trip us up! Most of the responding posts said, see Ted Z post. The trivial details: I was already reading Ted Z post, that's why I wanted to ask the question. And why I ask it on a separate thread.

My thought process was maybe that’s a way we could tell all the many so-called cards we call Bond Bread apart. Maybe the round corner cards were Homogenized Bond Bread and all the other cards were just Bond Bread. After all Ted Z did call the round corned cards -Homogenized Bond Bread - at least saying they came in Homogenized Bond Bread packages. Many others called the square corner cards Bond Bread (W571) and did not use the term Homogenised Bread.

Since then I have done some digging on my own into the name's Bond Bread and Homogenized Bond Bread. The facts may be a little fuzzy, if you have more information please post.

Bond Bread was a product of General Baking Company. The idea for Bond Bread came from William Deininger, president of General Baking Company at the time the company was producing bread under the name "Superior Bread"

The name Bond Bread comes from the term bond, meaning 'a promise or guarantee of repayment of debt'. The company used the name as a way to say its purity of ingredients were guaranteed like it was home-made bread. (From Wikipedia).

William Deininger, president of General Baking Company, chose the name "Bond Bread" to signify a "bond" or pledge of high-quality ingredients, and the company also promoted the bread as "homogenized" for freshness and longer shelf life. Over the years the company grew through mergers with local area bakeries. By the 1930’s the company became one of the largest bread suppliers in the country producing 1.5 million loaves per day. At the time it was even more popular than Continental Baking’s well-known brand Wonder Bread.

Which begs the question, how many trading cards of the D305 did Bond Bread produce and put inside their Homogenize Bread packages? I used to think it was not that many, but 1.5 million a day. That's a lot of bread loaves to put cards into! Now I understand they did not put trading cards in every loaf of bread made per-day, but ⅓ per-day for 6 months will still be more cards than I believed were printed, POP. That would be 3 million total cards, 48 cards to a set would be sixty-two thousand five hundred sets.

The General Baking Company adopted the name Bond as a way to say the purity of its ingredients were guaranteed just as if it was homemade bread. They also claimed their bread was homogenized which they promoted as making their bread fresher and longer lasting.

Here is where it gets a little fuzzy, I believe the General Banking Company started using the name Homogenize Bread after William Deininger held a national recipe contest in 1915 to award the housewives who sent him the best recipes for bread. He received more than 45,000 responses. He began calling the bread Homogenized, like it was homemade. Most homemade bread recipes sent in, used milk that has been homogenized, a process that breaks down fat globules to prevent cream separation, resulting in a smoother texture and potentially easier digestion for some.

My conclusion: I believe the only two cards they should be called Homogenize Bread are D305 and D302- they seem to be the only cards associated with Homogenize Bread. We can not say all “D” cards are Homogenize Bread cards. Just like we cannot say the W571 cards are Bond Bread. Therefore we cannot use Homogenize Bread or Bond Bread to separate the cards into set “D” or “W” sets, but we can use the terms to describe a particular set of “D” or “W” cards. Like saying: D305 Homogenize Bread. We should say the W571 cards are Arrco squared cut cards previously called Bond Bread and then we can say the Buffalo Bisons D301 are Bond Bread cards. John