The Mennonite bread was delicious. They delivered it to our house in their little truck every few days, available in white or wheat. We subscribed to that part of the time. Bread making was one of the fundraising activities of the Mennonite mission that was stationed there in El Salvador. Once in a while we would see the Mennonites walking around the shopping center or somewhere, the women always wearing their little white gauze bonnets. They were easily identified that way. However, we did not know them personally. They do not associate much with outsiders of their particular mission and they have their own compound somewhere in the city where they all live and do their bread-making and other activities. I don't know anything about that.
Our mission board generally preferred not to engage in commercial activities in the country in which our families were working so we really do not know very much about the arrangement that the Mennonite had for their activities.
It might seem to some that the Mennonites were putting themselves in direct competition with other local breadmakers of the country, which would include Pan Lido, a company that was owned by the family of a high school classmate, Elizabeth Lobos, which produced something inexpensive type of Wonder Bread which was also very popular for sandwich making. You would have to ask Elizabeth to explain the details of the bread conflict of the civil war, as I was saying to someone, because I really don't know very much about that. Bread is good.
Yes, and Lee Bueno's donut shop in Panama was operated there under arrangements of which we know very little, yet in competition with other donut shops of Panama. You would have to ask them what they were thinking. I have no idea.
