The last time
I visited Las Vegas, I did my usual stop at Trader Joe's on Decatur to get some
of those delicious mini-biscotti that my mother-in-law loves. And, as usual, I
picked up a few bottles of water.
I have no idea
why, but I started reading the back label, and was curious to find that the
water was bottled either in Olancha, Nevada, or Weed, Nevada, two odd-sounding
places I'd never heard of.
So I looked
them up. Especially Weed, which seemed like something I could write about in
this blog.
There is no
Olancha, Nevada. Olancha is actually a town in California, and it's where
Crystal Geyser water is bottled. It's in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, not
far from a hot springs called ... "Dirty Socks."
I could find
nothing about Weed, Nevada, or Weed anywhere, for that matter.
The
"Olancha" 06148 ZIP Code does not exist, and the "Weed"
06119 ZIP Code is actually in West Hartford, Connecticut.
All of this
strikes me as being deceptive, no?
Craig,
ReplyDeleteFunny I had the same musings this morning. I guess I'm a little slow. :-) Weed is actually a town in California. http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/College_8e9b98_188011.jpg
The numbers are coordinates for places in NV. Weed Heights and some fire station 88 in Nevada County
ReplyDeleteElsewhere on the label it states that the water is bottled at the Crystal Geyser Roxane spring in either Olancha, CA or Weed, CA. Both are cities in California.
ReplyDelete... as far as what those codes mean, I cannot find any information, but they are not addresses.
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