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[-] dominic.borcea@piefed.social 39 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 30 points 2 months ago

How did USA go from that to corner shop

The used a brimful of asha.

[-] jaaake@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago
[-] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Everyone needs a bosom for a pillow!

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 2 months ago

Iirc, is from Dominican's immigrants on New York

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 months ago
[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

You tried making the distinction between a corner store and a bodega. Yet both of them have a deli section.

They are just synonyms, aren't they?

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

No, I tried making the connection between an American bodega and it's origin as a dive bar/pub. I then said it's the same with many corner stores in the US. Re-read the post.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's what the shops are.

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