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For those of you in Kunming who are reading my blog, you are probably bored
already with this post.
Who
cares about some Chinese guy with a reusable shopping bag? Well, let me tell you about that shopping bag.
It
is a Treasure Island shopping bag, the kind I used to hoard in Chicago to Jeff’s
chagrin.
Now
Treasure Island is a specialty grocery on the north side of Chicago. You could
get stuff my taste buds only dream about here, including prosciutto, rabbi-blessed matzo balls, fresh chewy bagels topped with melt-in-your-mouth-lox, honey drizzled baklava, homemade tiramisu and Greek olives the size of your thumb. Plus, they’d put your groceries in sturdy bags that wouldn’t self-destruct on the way home.
And
oh yes, Julia Child once called Treasure Island “the most European supermarket in America.
around Chicago.
empty refrigerator to their dairy aisle.
Which makes it so weird to see this Treasure
Island bag in our new neighborhood, which
is approximately eight thousand miles away from the store on the corner on
Broadway and Cornelia.
So how did that Treasure Island bag end up in
Kunming, China?
Did this man just happen to come back from a bagel run and I coincidentially ran into him waiting for the Bus165?
According to a ”yesterday publication” of USA Today, over a half a million Chinese would visit the USA in 2011, and only
travelers with a business, government or educational reason …not to get
their fill on Moussaka and feta cheese.
I highly doubt that the man pictured here
is a highly influential government official.
Jeff and I have a seen two Treasure Island
bags so far.That’s twice as many as impossible.
We are guessing that the factory that prints
the Treasure Island bags is located somewhere around Kunming.
Either that, or the “Most European Supermarket
in America” just opened an 8th location…in China.
(This picture, by the way, was taken in front
of the Lou Si Wan shopping center. The other Treasure Island bag sighting was
on Foreigner Street.)