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17/02/2026

An empty day is such an underrated form of self care..

06/02/2026

With Stad Antwerpen – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

02/02/2026

🇲🇽🍞 Yes — The World’s Largest Bread Company Is Mexican

Most people don’t realize this.

When you think of global food giants, you probably picture companies from the U.S. or Europe.
But the largest bread and baking company on Earth was born in Mexico City.

Its name is Grupo Bimbo.

And its story didn’t start with an empire — it started with a small bakery.

In the early 20th century, Bimbo’s roots trace back to a modest operation making cakes and basic baked goods. In 1945, a group of Mexican entrepreneurs formally founded Panificación Bimbo, believing something simple but powerful: fresh bread, delivered consistently, could change daily life.

At the time, selling sliced bread in sealed packaging was revolutionary in Mexico. Bimbo helped normalize it — not through flashy ads, but through discipline:

frequent deliveries

strict freshness standards

total control of distribution

They didn’t just bake bread.
They built a system.

That system became the secret.

When Bimbo expanded beyond Mexico, it didn’t try to force Mexican bread onto the world. Instead, it did something smarter. It bought local bakeries, kept local brands, hired local workers, and applied its production and logistics model behind the scenes.

In other words, Bimbo wasn’t exporting bread.
It was exporting a process.

That approach took the company across Latin America, into the United States, Europe, and Asia — including China, where Bimbo even adjusted sweetness levels to match local tastes and used delivery strategies inspired by Mexican routes.

Today, Grupo Bimbo operates in dozens of countries, employs over 100,000 people, and produces hundreds of brands — many of which consumers don’t even realize belong to the same Mexican company.

There’s even a museum in Mexico City dedicated to its history, innovation, and logistics — not because it’s flashy, but because it quietly reshaped how the world eats bread.

🌍 A Mexican company.
🚚 A global distribution machine.
🍞 The largest baking operation on the planet.

Sometimes the biggest success stories aren’t loud.
They’re consistent.

And they rise — one loaf at a time.

28/01/2026

🐆🌿 Before Modern Zoos, There Was Moctezuma’s Living Palace

Long before public zoos existed in Europe, something extraordinary stood in the heart of Tenochtitlán.

In the early 1500s, the Mexica ruler Moctezuma II maintained vast animal enclosures within his palace complex—so remarkable that the first Europeans who saw them struggled to describe what they were witnessing.

These were not roadside attractions or places of entertainment.

They were carefully organized palace spaces where animals from across the Mexica world were kept alive and cared for.

Birds from distant regions filled large aviaries.
Jaguar and other powerful animals were housed in enclosed areas with dedicated caretakers.
Freshwater and saltwater ponds supported fish and waterfowl—an engineering feat in a city built on a lake.

Spanish chroniclers like Bernardino de Sahagún recorded that hundreds of specialists were employed to feed, clean, and maintain these enclosures. Archaeology near the Templo Mayor has since confirmed complex water systems and animal remains that match these descriptions.

This wasn’t a modern zoo as we know it today.

It was a palace menagerie—a place of ritual, symbolism, and state power. Animals represented the reach of the empire, the order of nature, and the sacred relationship between humans, gods, and the living world.

When the Spanish arrived, they wrote that they had never seen anything so vast, so organized, or so intentional. It challenged the idea that advanced systems of care, engineering, and knowledge only existed elsewhere.

Over time, these spaces were destroyed along with much of Tenochtitlán. What survived were fragments in texts, artifacts in the ground, and stories passed down through history.

📚 This isn’t about claiming “the first” or comparing civilizations.

It’s about remembering that long before modern institutions had names, Indigenous societies in Mexico were already creating complex systems rooted in knowledge, care, and meaning.

History didn’t begin in one place.
It grew everywhere.

And sometimes, the most impressive chapters are the ones we’re still relearning.

10/01/2026

I got over 250 reactions on my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

04/01/2026

It takes two to tango .... Super Wolf Moon and Jupiter over Monterrey, Mexico

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06/12/2024

With Butterfly Lady – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 4 months in a row. 🎉