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Ok but conbis are actually pretty great. That or I just like beer and onigiri with a short walk
I was surprised at both the selection of stuff at a conbini and how they were literally everywhere when I was visiting Japan. Good stuff. Best I got back at home is a single gas station convenience store in walking distance.
I eat conbini sandos all the time, chasing the high of a decent sandwich but only feeling their echoes as a couple of thin slices of ham whisper across my tongue.
I should just stick to rice balls
I love a good conbi crawl getting shit faced through Japan.
Will I wake up in a completely different city? Maybe, because Japan is insanely safe and public transport is perhaps too convenient
How bazaar
Now try asking the Québécois about dépanneurs
Nothing special about them. It’s just a different name for a regular convenience store.
NYC here.
If someone asked the average New Yorker what a bodega was, the most probable answer is “What are you, stupid?”
Not me, because I would be mugging you.
Not New York but “Topeka Bodega” is a common “practice sentence” in phonics and oratory and I think its a more mellifluous phrase than “cellar door.”
The real magic is I can walk to several open bodegas almost any time of day or night.
Just like a corner store!
It depends where you live. Most places in the US you can’t (safely) walk to anywhere, and many places aren’t open 24/7.
A bodega is a gas station without the gas
You’re right, but that’s equivalent to saying that most places don’t have corner stores. It being walkable is a prerequisite.
I experienced that first hand. Colleagues going to their cars to drive 200m down the road to park again and then walk 100m back on themselves to a deli.
It’s baffling how something as simple as a corner shop that can be walked to is a novelty yet here in Europe, it’s the norm everywhere.
As a New Yorker… I mean yeah what did you expect? The only real difference is that bodegas typically serve a wide variety of hot foods that are actually good. Other than that its just a small store, many other places have them.
I’m from Texas and I know what a bodegas is. It’s like a gas station with no gas and hot food that depending on the place can either be great or give you ecoli. It’s a gamble.
Also black people and kids get yelled at for any small movement.
So they’re pretty much a Casey’s gas station?
Minus the gas, smaller, and more common.
It’s all about the relationship you cultivate with the owners and operators of the bodega.
Soooo, same as any corner store?
Depends on the locale, but I believe so.
Where I grew up the market had been cornered, so to speak, by a small city level chain. 26 stores for a proper city and it’s ~6 suburbs.
You got the good food, and some extras like fresh donuts and ice cream from their bakery and creamery, but the staff were almost exclusively university kids with weird schedules you would never see more than a few times.
It was weird for a minute when I lived near a corner store where the owner also was just at the register and talked to people. (To be fair, he was also a university student, he just wanted to let the family manage the family business while he became a pathologist of all things. )
And their Bodega cat.
The most important part of the Bodega!!!
Yep. It’s simple and human. That’s it. That’s the magic.
This is just new yorkers being new yorkers - a city full of Emperor’s New Clothes.
Speaking of which, did you know in NYC it’s legal for a woman to be topless anywhere a man can be? That’s why we walk around naked all the time. Sorry carry on.
Yeah but Columbus Ohio is the same. In Washington you can be full on naked as long as it’s not sexual. Topless legal cities are a minority, but they’re not nearly as rare as people think
here bodegă means a cheap, low-quality and often run-down bar/pub, I think that’s close to its original meaning - wine cellar/warehouse. How did USA go from that to corner shop, I wonder
How did USA go from that to corner shop
The used a brimful of asha.
On the 45?
Iirc, is from Dominican’s immigrants on New York
Now I’m not from NY and I agree that it’s mostly a corner shop, the only connection to that that I can think of is that usually bodegas will have a kind of deli section where you can buy prepared foods. Usually sandwiches, sometimes things like tacos or rice plates.
I think new yorkers don’t get that that’s common across corner stores around the US.
So, a corner store?
Yep, that’s what I said.
OK, but couldn’t you wait for 20 more notes to appear before taking the screenshot?
I thought a Bodega offered breakfast and lunch sandwiches while corner stores outside of NYC don’t offer breakfast items as part of their deli menu.
Philly here. Some corner stores do have breakfast stuff, some dont. Do with that what you will.
This is exciting news.
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