How did Britain tame China? Opium. If you can just get a population addicted to some drug (like alcohol), they will become so self-consumed in addiction that they'll leave you alone. You know, because opium is the true, um, opiate of the masses.

Well now that I've gotten one of the most horrible opinions ever to come out of my head out of the way, let's talk grocery store. This is where the opinion above was truly formed. Specifically, it was at the Super Greenland. You can say what you want about Arabs, but there is one thing I'm sure of: they are true connoisseurs of produce. The Super Greenland had some of the best produce I've seen. You can't swing a dead cat in my neighborhood without hitting an Arab-owned produce store. All of them have excellent produce, far superior to what you would find at Kroger. Some of the produce stores sell other things to, but the selection is usually limited to brands with names that sound like the name brand version (Waterfall detergent instead of Cascade, Sunrise instead of Dawn, etc.).

Super Greenland takes the Arab produce store one step further. They have gorgeous produce, plus meat, poultry, cleaning supplies, etc. The chickens there are real 3 - 4 pound chickens, not those scary 7 pound Tyson chickens. The meat was fresh and beautiful. The cleaning products were mostly name brand (those that weren't in Arabic). One strange addition was the 400 or so hookahs lining the tops of every shelving unit. I know that older men (and some women) while away the time by sucking on a hookah. But is there really a market for 400? Super Greenland is certainly not the only place in Dearborn where a hookah can be purchased. There must be two hookahs for every person in Wayne county.