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Posted: 7/12/2021 4:58:46 AM EDT
Random thoughts.
Do you use this term? If you do where do you live? Give a short description of what it is. If you live in an area where the term is used (mostly NYC?) are they corporate or locally owned. In my area they would mostly be called convenience store, gas station or by their name like 7-11 Any other similar terms? I learned the term from Sipowitz |
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I only heard it used on tv. Usually by people playing NY cops.
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![]() Half Baked - Bodegas |
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Little grocery store. Used the term all time. I’m from New York.
I've haven't really seen it used much outside of New York. (And when I say New York, I mean NYC and the surrounding suburbs.) |
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When I lived in Mass I called the Latino corner stores bodegas. In PR we call them colmados.
A colmado is primarily a local convenience store. It sells staples |
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Live near Reading PA.
Yup, they are the shitty hispanic corner markets. Store exterior is plastered with ads promoting lottery tickets, tobacco / vaping, and EBT. Store merchandise is an odd mix of random ethic food brands and dollar store and aldi stuff being flipped at 100% markup. |
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Mexican convenience stores. Usually small businesses that sell a wide range of junk and questionable baked goods.
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We call them "stores" around here. If its an ethic oriented store we add that. Ie: I went to the Asian store and got stuff to make egg rolls.
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View Quote I’ll 2nd this, although we go to the one in Longwood |
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Independently ran 'corner store'. I've never heard the phrase used out of NYC.
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The Beastie Boys used the term in one of their songs. I never really thought about what they were saying but now it makes sense.
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If you live in an area where the term is used (mostly NYC?) are they corporate or locally owned. View Quote Locally, & yes in the Bronx it's used often in language & store names. |
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It’s racist!
Speak English! Assimilate! Oh, wait a minute… I prefer “Colmado” |
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Used in the 5 boroughs of NYC to describe a small Spanish grocery store.
Could be a ligit store doing real business selling groceries and household items or a shady store also selling drugs or other illegal items. Cops use the term bogy. |
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A bodega is a small convenience store that has everything and charges huge prices.
You hear the term all the time in the Marine Corps. Guess why? ![]() |
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Quoted: Random thoughts. Do you use this term? If you do where do you live? Give a short description of what it is. If you live in an area where the term is used (mostly NYC?) are they corporate or locally owned. In my area they would mostly be called convenience store, gas station or by their name like 7-11 Any other similar terms? I learned the term from Sipowitz View Quote ![]() Half Baked - Bodegas Never used the term until I moved out here, I suppose its a regional thing. |
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Used BODEGA in a conversation with my son. We were discussing shopping and supporting local inner city business. I said we have to use corporate chain grocery stores because there is not a bodega in our neighborhood.
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Bodega is a common name for Puerto Rican restaurant or grocery store in CT cities such as Bridgeport, near NYC.
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I know what it is and where it originated but no, I do not use the term. I'm not from nor have I ever been to NYC.
We just say gas stations or corner store around here. |
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Did you bounce a clown check at one?
Offer to bring your neighbor's rooster for a quick fight to settle the debt. |
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Quoted: A bodega is a small convenience store that has everything and charges huge prices. You hear the term all the time in the Marine Corps. Guess why? ![]() View Quote AND they must do each of the following: cash payroll checks, (for those who no tiene banco accounts) handle wire cash transfers to Mexico, and sell Long Distance prepaid calling cards they're all over east Tulsa now ![]() |
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![]() I Put On My Jewelry Just To Go To The Bodega (Bia - Whole Lotta Money) - Ultimate TikTok Compilation |
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Quoted: ![]() Never used the term until I moved out here, I suppose its a regional thing. View Quote |
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They were all called delis growing up. Even after the Koreans bought them from the jews.
achshually tho.... we also had "candy stores" which sold newspapers and magazines and had a large rack of candy bars in front of the register. |
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