plastic bags

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello,
  The Russian word "paket" or "paketchik" means a plastic or paper
bag, or cone-shaped paper, or generally anything that is convenient
to wrap a thing people buy at shops and kiosks.
  When you buy a kilo of potatoes at a market, you can buy a "paket"
for it (a very thin, cheapie thing); or a prestigious "paket" at
a supermarket for foreigners and rich Russians. A cone-shaped paper,
that immediately comes into my mind, is the paper wrap for "shaverma"
(a Caucasian food). When you buy a bouquet of flowers, you might also
wish to buy a "paket" for it (paper usually, sometimes a silver
coloured plastic).

    >usually made of a paper sheet.
    >... But the problem here is quite different: there are no
    >more such conic paper bags in Western countries.

What about fish 'n chips in England? One surely will wish a
paper for it. (newspaper cutting has vanished for a long time, though).

"kulek" is rarely heard here in Petersburg.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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