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[Overpriced Gaming Chair]

I used to live in an area with a fair number of these around, and they are absolutely not a replacement for a regular grocery store. Their main source of income is selling cigarettes, booze, and lottery tickets. Food is limited to soda/energy drinks, overpriced frozen goods, and shelf stable shit like canned soup, ramen, potato chips, and other goyslop. Maybe you'll get lucky and there'll be a coffee machine or soda fountain or something, but few have prepared food and none of them sell fresh produce. Closest you'll get is maybe a box of fruits at the counter. It's handy if you're drunk at 2am and want some Doritos or something, but it is nowhere near an adequate source of food and even if there was one right next door you'd still need to go to an actual grocery store once a week. The economics of shipping fresh vegetables and meat and shit to these tiny-ass stores every single day just doesn't work in practice.

I don't know WHY urbanists get such a hard-on for bodegas. They're essentially just gas station stores but without the gas station.

Reminds me of the guy who got cancelled for criticizing bodegas: https://en.meming.world/wiki/Bodega_Bro

 

[Yamamura]

Funny meme I just saw

Makes sense, ever since Honda made it harder to steal a Civic than just using a flathead screwdriver crackheads have had to change their mode of transportation. I've seen a lot of cyclists around lock their bikes up with shitty braided cable locks so they're practically just giving them away to anyone with a cable snip.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

We had situations like these in Poland

https://ikc.pl/elektryczne-hulajnogi-utopione-w-wisle-to-bardzo-powazne-zagrozenie/

"Electric scooters cluttering sidewalks and obstructing pedestrian movement are no longer the only serious issue. It turns out that many electric scooters are ending up in the Vistula River. It’s unclear whether they’re being dumped as a joke or out of frustration, but the batteries in the water pose a significant environmental threat.

'We will be expecting swift action from scooter operators to address this issue,' announced the Deputy Mayor of Kraków."

https://gazetawroclawska.pl/chlopcy-wrzucili-elektryczna-hulajnoge-do-odry-nie-spodziewali-sie-ze-stana-przed-sadem/ar/c1-14317645

"The incident took place on one of the embankments along the Oder River. The woman who reported it informed the police that she could see four boys throwing an electric scooter, belonging to one of the rental companies, into the river's current."

https://imginn.com/h8lime/

There are at least 4 pics of those lime scooters in bodies of water

I'm gonna go find a river.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The bodega love comes from a simple pipeline:

Kid born in a suburb where he can’t get to anything walking or bike (often not because it’s impossible but because parents won’t let him/lazy). He drives everywhere.

Goes to college, loves dorm life and “everything I need right near me”.

Moves to a shithole apartment in NY after college and is blow away that he can walk downstairs and buy shit. Demands that everyone have this wonderful experience. Fails to realize that if you set your search to “two blocks from a grocery store, Walmart, or convenience Store” you cover large swaths of suburbia.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The bodega love comes from a simple pipeline:

Kid born in a suburb where he can’t get to anything walking or bike (often not because it’s impossible but because parents won’t let him/lazy). He drives everywhere.

Goes to college, loves dorm life and “everything I need right near me”.

Moves to a shithole apartment in NY after college and is blow away that he can walk downstairs and buy shit. Demands that everyone have this wonderful experience. Fails to realize that if you set your search to “two blocks from a grocery store, Walmart, or convenience Store” you cover large swaths of suburbia.

The on-campus convenience stores were kind of shitty, and I went to a big college. They were operated by a local convenience store operator and pretty much had the same thing the "real" stores did, fountain drinks, questionable hot dogs, candy, feminine hygiene products, and so forth. They were missing alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and car care. They then got outsourced to the foodservice company that took over the restaurant contracts and got even more limited in what they had available (probably closer to the stuff hotels sell in lobbies, with the same price and display to match).

They did build a CVS across the street (this was at a time when there was NO grocery store or drug store in the campus business district for over a decade) which filled that part of that niche. A lot of the bodega fans claim is that they have a kitchen where you could get a burger and/or a taco (or whatever) but that's also any modern suburban convenience store built in the last 10 years. As I mentioned, the three convenience stores or so within a two mile radius of me have kitchens and I live in an extremely suburban area.

 

[quaawaa]

Moves to a shithole apartment in NY after college and is blow away that he can walk downstairs and buy shit. Demands that everyone have this wonderful experience. Fails to realize that if you set your search to “two blocks from a grocery store, Walmart, or convenience Store” you cover large swaths of suburbia.

Y'all convenience stores ain't got no cultcha:

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

Y'all convenience stores ain't got no cultcha:
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Bodega owners must be adding something to the shitty crap they're selling. Come on, of course I have my favorite stores and favorite locations but I can't imagine arguing about that on twitter and calling others uncultured because they don't share my sentiments

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Most small-time individual bodegas/delis sell some shitty “made there” food. Sometimes it’s actually good, most times is salmonella Stockholm syndrome.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Y'all convenience stores ain't got no cultcha:
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Texas and probably even more places have several gas stations that get trendy clickbait videos made about them because they sell ethnic slop and sometimes good shit like decent BBQ and tacos, sometimes even decent asian food

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Y'all convenience stores ain't got no cultcha:

Bodegas aren't "quality food", it's junk food with questionable sanitation practices.

 

[Maurice Maine]

Who the fuck invented the bodega? In Brazil, we call any random low-grade commerce that. I'm talking about those holes in the wall that sell the worst swill known to man and chips that are basically flavored packing peanuts.

 

[quaawaa]

Texas and probably even more places have several gas stations that get trendy clickbait videos made about them because they sell ethnic slop and sometimes good shit like decent BBQ and tacos, sometimes even decent asian food

You can’t expect someone who lives in a World Class City™ to have actually traveled and seen the parts of the world they look down upon. Everywhere with a population density less than 100,000 people per square mile is a wasteland not worth their time!

Bodegas aren't "quality food", it's junk food with questionable sanitation practices.

The two specialities of bodegas that online New Yorkers love to brag about are the “bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich” (a fast food breakfast item available anywhere in the country; it’s literally on the menu at McDonald’s) and the “chopped cheese” which is a cheap ground beef taco stuffed into a bread roll instead of a tortilla.

That’s the “cuisine” they’re so proud of.

Who the fuck invented the bodega? In Brazil, we call any random low-grade commerce that. I'm talking about those holes in the wall that sell the worst swill known to man and chips that are basically flavored packing peanuts.

NYC has had corner stores forever but they weren’t called “bodegas” until relatively recently thanks to Hispanic immigrants using the term they used back home and rich leftists fetishizing everything poor or brown.

 

[Maurice Maine]

You can’t expect someone who lives in a World Class City™ to have actually traveled and seen the parts of the world they look down upon. Everywhere with a population density less than 100,000 people per square mile is a wasteland not worth their time!

The two specialities of bodegas that online New Yorkers love to brag about are the “bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich” (a fast food breakfast item available anywhere in the country; it’s literally on the menu at McDonald’s) and the “chopped cheese” which is a cheap ground beef taco stuffed into a bread roll instead of a tortilla.

That’s the “cuisine” they’re so proud of.

NYC has had corner convenience stores forever but they weren’t called “bodegas” until relatively recently thanks to Hispanic immigrants using the term they used back home and rich transplants fetishizing everything poor or brown.

Alright, but the point of the term Bodega is basically 'avoid at all costs except if you're a fucking junkie requiring your industrial grade alcohol fix', why is it so defended amongst retards?

 

[CallmeCicada]

Bodega owners must be adding something to the shitty crap they're selling. Come on, of course I have my favorite stores and favorite locations but I can't imagine arguing about that on twitter and calling others uncultured because they don't share my sentiments

Bodegas are shit, only retards shop there. Some are nice, clean and have a grill and serve hot food they cook there. But they aren't the norm for most. Unless you already own a home in NY, it doesn't make sense to say that a bodega is worth paying rent all your life.

Spoiler: off topic

PSA: the moon sticker is a neg rate.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Alright, but the point of the term Bodega is basically 'avoid at all costs except if you're a fucking junkie requiring your industrial grade alcohol fix', why is it so defended amongst retards?

Because they don’t know what it means and they just think it’s ethnic and cultural so it must be good.

Convenience store is too American, and slopshop is too on the nose.

Some places call them tiendas or delis (even if the deli counter is a tiny part of the already small store).

 

[quaawaa]

Some places call them tiendas or delis (even if the deli counter is a tiny part of the already small store).

Back when they were run by Jews, “bodegas” were called delicatessens (delis for short).

They also had better food.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Alright, but the point of the term Bodega is basically 'avoid at all costs except if you're a fucking junkie requiring your industrial grade alcohol fix', why is it so defended amongst retards?

My personal theory is that it became a hot topic/cope from NYC tards after establishments like Bucees started gaining more online popularity outside of their already recognizable local brands, Bodega Bro was just an excuse for retards to lash out at someone convenient

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Because they don’t know what it means and they just think it’s ethnic and cultural so it must be good.

Convenience store is too American, and slopshop is too on the nose.

Some places call them tiendas or delis (even if the deli counter is a tiny part of the already small store).

There must be some convenience stores with an honest-to-God deli counter. Some places (even way out in the sticks) advertise a "deli" but the only fresh stuff is fried chicken (usually under a franchise like Chesters or Krispy Krunchy that will supply them with the batter and other supplies). White Hen, a convenience store out of New England/Chicago, had actual "will slice meat to order" deli counters and fresh sandwiches (likely due to the time they spent associated with a supermarket chain) but that went away when 7-Eleven bought them in the late 2000s (and before 7-Eleven started pushing full food concepts).

 

[Yamamura]

Y'all convenience stores ain't got no cultcha:
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Most small-time individual bodegas/delis sell some shitty “made there” food. Sometimes it’s actually good, most times is salmonella Stockholm syndrome.

Yeah I was just about to say
>Bodega
>Quality
This really reads like someone high off their own farts and is looking at things with rose tinted glasses.

Bodega owners must be adding something to the shitty crap they're selling. Come on, of course I have my favorite stores and favorite locations but I can't imagine arguing about that on twitter and calling others uncultured because they don't share my sentiments

Yeah I can't imagine trying to argue about the culturalness of a store as if it's a cultural center. Why is it cultural because it's run by a brown person? This is one of the examples where a liberal ends up being more racist unintentionally. It's basically the same meme as the Japan meme except it's more like:

Same with why I guess they like Kei trucks. It's not like side by sides haven't existed before but it's just because truck Japan.

My personal theory is that it became a hot topic/cope from NYC tards after establishments like Bucees started gaining more online popularity outside of their already recognizable local brands, Bodega Bro was just an excuse for retards to lash out at someone convenient

It's like a weird type of elitism that everyone else finds lame except for them. The only thing I see New Yorkers brag about is how much they're paying to live in shitty conditions. But tbh you see this a lot with people who have little going on in their lives and make being a "local" their entire identity. Imagine having the only notable trait about you being that you know the particular vernacular of a certain area.

 

[Hanamarle Bougainvillea]

I support the extermination of people who remove their mufflers and then brap around like negros at midnight.