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Some guy will post a picture of a pretty standard looking pepperoni pizza and say: "Imagine not living in new york." And then there's the whole bodega discourse, which is also funny. "For you non-new yorkers, let me explain: a bodega is not a corner store. It's a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs." Thank you sir for explaining that to a slack-jawed yokel such as myself.

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[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only cool bodegas are the ones in Cuba that give people free rations of food

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait thats a thing? Gonna save this chestnut for the next time I'm in a conversation about bodegas

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah bodega just means warehouse or grocery store in Spanish

https://insightcuba.com/faq/food-rationing-system

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been to several cities of global importance and size. Moreover, I've spoke to people from dozens of countries asking them to compare NYC to the principle city of their country.

Among them all and from my observation there is agreement: NYC is both the dirtiest major city globally and has the most outdated mass transit system.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It continues to blow my mind that New York managed to build one of the first functional metro systems in the world, and then decided that they shouldn't ever bother to maintain them beyond the absolute bare minimum, for like 80 years. Surely it can't all be the fault of city planning and Robert Moses, right?

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From a non American, this seems to be how all Americans talk about their local places lol

[–] Catherine_Steward@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, Americans are bizarrely insulated. They really do think that the northeast quadrant of their town has a completely different culture from the northwest quadrant of their town, but of course those cultures are slightly more similar than the culture of those goddamn southwest quadrant motherfuckers.

The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My favourite capitalism Murican brained thing is people saying how cool their area is for having x fast food chain

[–] crime@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And you can tell how depraved Texas is because they're like this about whataburger of all mushy, mediocre slop

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[–] crime@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The people in the next city over may as well be from Jupiter.

If you live in Florida this is pretty likely

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've heard Americans unironically claim that American states are more different from one another than European countries.

Yeah buddy, some places call soda "pop" and that's more difference than between Poland and Portugal.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Some states are definitely more different than, like, Germany and Austria

[–] TechnologyMoth@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NYC is extremely circlejerky though even for merca

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

NYC and Texas are the big 2 circlejerk places, IME

[–] StuporTrooper@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

California is the most hated state.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Bursting through a wall

Hot?! It’s only 85, that’s cold where I’m from

Did you know Texas is the only state in the nation legally allowed to secede

Too many damn commiefornians coming here trying to make Texas into the place they left

The stars at night are big and bright 👏👏👏 deep in the heaaaart of Texas

You ain’t never had bbq if you ain’t ate Texas bbq

Y’all want some sweet tea

Whataburger

Bucc-ees bathrooms!

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop please, I've heard all of these enough to last a lifetime and I'm not even RELATED to anyone from there

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

:Texas-cool:

Wait one more,

Pff you think that’s far? Back where I’m from we drive an hour just to go get groceries

[–] FugaziArchivist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

hahahaha "bursting through wall"

[–] ToastGhost@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

thats why the episode making fun of texas is the best spongebob

[–] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Everything in the store being dusty and expired is just culture, sweaty

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I've had New Yorkers tell me they know my own culture better than I do because they lived in the Bronx. This one woman insisted I walk on the outside of a sidewalk because Latin men would hit on her. I had no idea what she was talking about because only old men do that where I live. But she insisted it was something we all did.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Anybody who cloaks themselves in the garb of "New Yorker" as their entire personality is a boring ass person. NYC is the best place to live in the United States since it's the only city where you can actually walk everywhere and that's why I love it but compared to any other city of similar or larger size it's embarrassing. We don't even have fucking glass on our metro platforms. Half of the island of Manhattan is a Disneyworld. A decent chunk of the iconic parts of NYC life have closed and are never coming back because landlords refuse to rent to businesses that aren't Starbucks or Planet Fitness. The roads are decaying, the parks are grassless wastelands, but fuck I don't know where else I could get a Tibetan momo, bomb ass al pastor tacos, xiao long bao, and fluffy bagels all on the same block.

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[–] Lester_Peterson@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think a lot of the more obnoxious aspects of that discourse comes from transplants who are either trying really hard to be seen as a real and authentic NYer, or grew up in a suburb of a city whose downtown they barely visited, and now see common features of walkable urban cores as unique to New York.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

What.... What do they think a corner store is?

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Couldn’t imagine living anywhere other than New York!

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[–] dudes_eating_beans@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All the new yorkers moved down here during the pandemic and as a result rent has gone up like $400-$500 in the last 2 years :deeper-sadness:

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: New Yorkers that need to tell strangers about their high standards and about how exceptional and unique and grounded and worldly and tough and cosmopolitan and sophisticated and cultured they are for being from New York are insufferably boorish.

If I watch a stand-up comedian and they mention New York within the first few minutes of their performance, I'm out. I don't want to hear it again.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've met way too many like this when I lived in Upstate New York. You'd get the transplants who lived in the city and then came back acting like they were above everybody else. The people actually born and raised in New York City almost never brought it up.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One of the most obnoxious people I ever dated in my college years spent one semester in the UK and came back with Standard Issue Posh British Accent Used By Generically Sexy Love Interest Scientist In Almost Every SyFy Channel Original Movie.

She'd drop it when distracted or off her guard but she insisted it was "natural" to her. :sus-deep:

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[–] Caitycat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm starting to feel like thats just what happens when people move somewhere. Like something about being a transplant to a city suddenly makes you way more likely to talk about how thats the best city ever and how nowhere else is like it. Kinda like when people convert to a new religion and become really devout to it, compared to people who were born and raised in that religion.

What really bugs me is that they brag about their open-mindedness, but call anyone they deem a "dirty redneck" who moves in a gentrifier and thus not welcome in the city as if a good chunk of people living in Brooklyn at any given moment aren't "small town rednecks" themselves.

Not that they themselves are the problem, it's landlords, real estate "investors", and the "muh property values" types.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As someone who lives in New York, let me just say Greatest city in the world only in NYC pizza pie go Mets

[–] Femboiboiboi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Classiest best greatest nicest cleanest city baybee.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

last time I was in NYC I met a guy who was slackjawed that other cities in America also have Chinatowns

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Boy is he going to be surprised when he learns about China.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”

So... any gas station in the USA?

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

bodegas are hardly special. like, pretty much every 3rd or 4th street in London, even in the suburbs, has those too. in fact we have loads of specialist ones for different diasporas foods. as do like most British towns and cities, at least regular ones though maybe not afro or South Asian , and I would imagine is true for a lot of other places

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well according to CumTown you can get drugs in NY bodegas, here on terf island I have to go meet a guy in an alley behind the shop

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can also get cheaper cigarettes, smuggled from out of state, which is nice

[–] Femboiboiboi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sometimes smuggled from other countries too.

[–] Foolio@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Drug dealers often hang out at convenience stores in not-New York too

[–] zeal0telite@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have legitimately always been confused by the bodega thing for the same reason.

We have several chains that do exactly that and they're just called "corner stores".

"You can get eggs, toilet paper, and Gatorade"

Damn, that's called a Spar, or Premier, or Londis.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think a bodega is more like a deli

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Everywhere with migrants has those.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

“For you non-new yorkers, let me explain: a bodega is not a corner store. It’s a place where you can buy gatorade, toilet paper, AND eggs.”

Dollar General has all of those things. I don't see what's so magical about them.

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