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General Malaise said:
I guess store is just not urbane enough to use in NYC.
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It's like a non-chain 7/11 meets a deli. Little bit of everything from cat food to tennis balls to egg sandwiches to beer to toilet paper to baby food. open 24hrs and on your block.

we have more than one kind of store here. Maybe it's different where you live

 
El Floppo said:
It's like a non-chain 7/11 meets a deli. Little bit of everything from cat food to tennis balls to egg sandwiches to beer to toilet paper to baby food. open 24hrs and on your block.

we have more than one kind of store here. Maybe it's different where you live
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So it's exactly like a 7/11? But with a fancy name?

 
Seriously, who doesn't know what a bodega is?  

Now, they are all over the damn place in FL, where I have resided a large part of my adult life, but I grew up in Western PA....and probably didn't see my first "Mexicaned individual"(did I use that right?) until I was well into my teenage years....and I knew what a freaking bodega was before I ever met him.

Guessing y'all don't know what a jitney is either? (Pro Tip: You can get a ride to the bodega in one).

 
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Need to get my back waxed again. It's like I'm a gorilla. Nobody ever told me how much time I'd spend working on body hair maintenance when I got old.

 
bentley said:
Need to get my back waxed again. It's like I'm a gorilla. Nobody ever told me how much time I'd spend working on body hair maintenance when I got old.
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Hey you're married.  Who do you have to impress?

 
El Floppo said:
It's like a non-chain 7/11 meets a deli. Little bit of everything from cat food to tennis balls to egg sandwiches to beer to toilet paper to baby food. open 24hrs and on your block.

we have more than one kind of store here. Maybe it's different where you live
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And they all have cats?  That's pretty cool.

 
General Malaise said:
And they all have cats?  That's pretty cool.
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some do. some either don't or keep them locked away until they close (if they close) or mistreat them so that they hide all the time.

some of them let the cats roam the sidewalk around the store- those are the best/friendliest cats.

some serve them for lunch specials.

I was trying to think of ways in which bodegas are NOT 7/11s... other than the goofy corporate uniforms, slurpees and rotating eternal hotdogs- it's a pretty good equivalent. oh- they usually have a limited deli counter with not great sandwiches, unless it's 5am and you're drunk in which case they make the best sloppy egg, sausage and cheese sandwiches ever.

each one is neighborhood specific in terms of what they sell/stock. some have santeria paraphenalia. some have lots of fancy organic crap. little bit o' everything from hardware to homeware to edibles. all in a tiny, packed space patrolled by a pack of cats.

 
General Malaise said:
We just call them Plaid Pantries here.  Never seen a store cat though. 
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I just discovered that Plaid Pantry is a Portland based mini-chain.

They have over 100 stores and all of them but something like four are in the Portland metro. There is one near the UW campus. It was the only one I had ever seen until we were in Portland recently.

 
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