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So I wrote again, asking \u2018when are you having this stuff picked up?\u2019 Again, no response. So, I got out the invoice and decided that whatever this stuff was, it was now mine.<\/p>\nAbout two weeks ago, the UPS guy showed up at my apartment house and left eight boxes on the porch. I saw the boxes and out of curiosity, I looked at the shipping label to see who this stuff was for. To my surprise, it was for me! But I didn\u2019t order it, it was a big mistake. I recognized the name of the sender, an internet purveyor of specialty food items; I had ordered from them before, but not for several months. So I went on line, and to my relief I didn\u2019t see any unexpected charges against my credit cards. Then I shot an e-mail to the company telling them that it was all a big mistake, I didn\u2019t order this stuff. They wrote back and asked me to open one box, get out the invoice, and give them the reference numbers. I sent that back to them, and asked them when I should expect the stuff to be picked up. Two days went by, no reply. So I wrote again, asking \u2018when are you having this stuff picked up?\u2019 Again, no response. So, I got out the invoice and decided that whatever this stuff was, it was now mine.<\/p>\n
Actually, it was a lot of beans. Another customer had ordered big 25 pound bags of beans and grains from this company. I can\u2019t figure out why; their prices per pound are almost twice what you pay in the supermarket (despite being bought in bulk). Well whatever, the stuff was now mine, por nada. <\/p>\n
Actually, I gave three of the bean-bags and a sack of organic couscous to a homeless shelter that my brother used to volunteer with. That still left me with a good supply of lentils, black-eyed peas, wheat berries, split green peas, and white beans. I got them put away in my kitchen, but then I started thinking about the bags that the stuff came in. Most suburban people (like me) normally never see bagged foods in bulk. You see cans and plastic wrapped food in supermarkets, but unless you work in a warehouse or a food factory or an institutional kitchen, you never see 25 pound bags of beans. So here\u2019s a picture of one of the bags. This is what it looks like, straight from the heartland of America (the bean company is in Nebraska). It definitely looks different. It didn\u2019t come from coastal, urbanized America; it\u2019s plain and understated, but colorful and creative in a certain way. Perhaps it\u2019s something waiting to be discovered by the artistic crowd in Manhattan. Yes, I could see a special display at one of the big art museums, maybe the Whitney: \u201cStraight from the Heartland: Bulk Bean Bags of America\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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