"Dave Bell" > wrote in message
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> Vox Humana wrote:
> > "Richard Crowley" > wrote
>
> >>I apologize that I escaped higher-education studying only
> >>physics (to the exclusion of both inorganic and organic
> >>chemistry :-( But it sounds like you are saying that because
> >>corn doesn't have the same properties as wheat (gluten,
> >>etc.) you can't make the same kind of product with corn
> >>meal as you do with wheat flour?
> >>
> >>I don't suppose that "Wonder Bread" actually qualifies
> >>as "bread"? :-) As a child, my parents explained that
> >>the name is short for "It's a Wonder they can call it Bread"
> >>
> > Wonder Bread is bread. It may not be your idea of good food, but it is
a
> > yeast raised bread by any measure.
> >
>
> I use a similar argument about domestic beers...
> Bud (even Lite!) *is* beer. It is well made, consistent, with a great
> deal of quality control and science behind it. It's a very good example
> of a style that I just don't like, myself.

I was watching a program on TV recently that discussed the history of Wonder
Bread. I didn't realize that was the first nationally distributed bread.
There was a Wonder Bread bakery near the campus where I went to school. I
can remember the aroma of bread wafting over the neighborhood.