Schmidt Baking Company
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Schmidt Baking Company makes Schmidt's Blue Ribbon and Schmidt's Old Tyme Breads and is part of the Quality Bakers of America cooperative, and so distributes Sunbeam Bread in its territory.
It was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1886 by Elizabeth and Peter Schmidt at their house using recipes from their native Germany. The firm now has more than 800 employees and makes several varieties of bread, most prominently white bread.
It was popular in the 1970s and 1980s for its advertising jingle "I like bread and butter, I like toast and jam, I like Schmidt's Blue Ribbon Bread, It's my favorite brand", which was derived from The Newbeats 1964 song Bread and Butter.
