80% of an American’s cultural identity is based on which shitty fast food they have that others don’t
New Yorkers acting like paying $13 for a deli sandwich is unique to the big apple is cringe, but its practically the same thing as Texans stanning Whataburger or Californians In-N-Out
The only difference is that media outlets aren’t giving Arlington RV dealership owners a column to ramble about how the McRib returning to the DFW area is literally everything.
“Can I have a breakfast sandwich and a coffee.”
“Sure, that will be $8.25.”
“I am glad we have this deep and meaningful relationship.”
“Cash or credit sir?”
$8.25 for a breakfast sandwich and a coffee in New York.
What is this, 2005?
When I’m hung over and just want a Gatorade and a fucking turkey bacon sandwich, I don’t really care about “the experience”. If I wanted an experience I’d go to like a park, or a museum, or a restaurant, or a fucking dive bar.
The people who say bodega is like a gas station store are foolish jealous burger americans who think it’s regular to live in shit bland cities with only chain amenities. But in the not-wasteland places, other world-class megacities like Sheffield, Mombasa, Leipzig, etc, all have independantly and swarthily operated corner shops with matted cats and weird (locally specific) foods. In the UK they have a word like bodega that contains a racial slur
Twitter is such a poisonous thing to your world view. You see blurbs and statements that are curated by an algorithm to be something you engage with (out of hate or liking) and you think that is how the world thinks. Delete your infinite scroll apps, people.
Me, on the fediverse, watching the chaotic goblin energy of the federated timeline:
:comfy: :cool-zone:
It gives white transplant libs a calculated dose of minority exposure so that they can feel both cultured, and safe, because they’re almost always living in heavily gentrified areas.
This is going to sound really stupid, but I feel like projecting and being an armchair psychologist.
I think the reason New Yorkers (particularly liberal ones) get so giddy about bodegas and shit is because it’s something they can point to and claim that it’s “culture”, but AMERICAN! They get to feel proud to be part of some community that they are actually proud of. They can’t romanticize America as a whole because that’s what white conservatives do!
But for anyone in the UK, correct me if I’m wrong Londoners or Edinburgh people are arrogant about their cities. I know in England alone there is a huge divide between the North and South but this isn’t exactly what I am picking on. Also, French people regardless of politics can love their local cremerie or boulangerie in a similar vein, even in the more provincial parts. Hell, the French countryside, non urban areas can be “safely” romanticized without being accused of being an “inauthentic rube” or whatever bullshit they feel.
As far as I can tell, a Bodega is just a convenience store with a sandwich counter? I’ve lived in towns with corner stores like that and it was awesome, so I definitely think places like that can be very valuable for the community, but I don’t see why New Yorkers need to be so snooty about it.
I don’t see why New Yorkers need to be so snooty about it
My theory is that there are some transplants that aren’t very into the arts and didn’t move there for a high paying job, and are desperately looking for a justification of their absurd rent.
I hate to be on my urbanist shit again, but I guess a small grocery/convenience store with a deli within walking distance is a novelty if you’re from a suburb with strictly segregated zoning.
This was my thought. Like I live in Toronto, where many old neighbourhoods have corner stores in a house on a residential street, so not just walking distance but next door.
I think most people who are rich enough to live in New York are used to massive car suburbs and that the thought of a walkable store, or even one in their neighbourhood, is indeed a novelty.
And it is good, actually.
a Bodega is just a convenience store with a sandwich counter?
Or as we call them here out in the hills of Wes Virginny, Sheetz
