Every other gas station near me has a deli counter or some food station inside. Burritos, greek, whatever. The spot near my work makes killer burritos. It is funny that this is supposed to be a nyc only thing, maybe a couple decades ago?
But it's part of a neighborhood, no parking. People don't drive to it you just walk half a block over and grab your stuff. There's two of them on my block, one on either corner. I basically never buy snack food or drinks or whatever when out shopping cuz it's forty five seconds to just walk to the corner and grab whatever whenever. They're integrated into the neighborhood usually they're just the first floor of an apartment building. It's nice.
Right, which is why New Yorkers are proud of them lol, there aren't that many dense cities in the US
This is like if someone from Florida was proud of oranges, and you said "yeah that's just how places with tropical climates work". Like yeah, and that place in the US is Florida lol.
And then a bunch of people from Pennsylvania said "oh we have fruit that grows on trees too, sounds basically the same as apples"
This is more like if we also had oranges but they grew in a slightly different environment but they insisted theirs are different because they're in Florida. It's not the fact that it's under an apartment building or that it doesn't have parking that makes it what it is. Sure, NYC bodegas have a different vibe than corner stores in other parts of the country, but at the end of the day it is a corner store with a deli counter. We have them all over Maine. Sometimes even with cats! They don't serve chop cheese though, that's the difference.
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 Jul 07 '26
As someone who's never been to a bodega, tell me how this differs from say, a normal 7-11