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- bogatash, on 10/10/2007, -6/+30Hey! Black Ass!
- barryiggins, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25"Whole Foods? This is the Bronx. We got Part Foods."
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18No, New Yorkers call those "Candy Stores". I used to go to this one down by Astoria Projects in West Queens. They had almost nothing on the shelves. Go in, drop a 10 or a 20, get a brown bag with the appropriate size bag greens and a fist full of candy pored on top of it.
Those were the good old days. - emehrkay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Im from philly and corner stores are just like this. I loved the food when I was younger, and I still eat the lil debbies, ice cream sandwiches, hugs (quarter waters), etc. when I go home. The big difference, that wasnt shown in this vid, is that in philly they usually sell 'fresh' sandwiches.
That's real hood livin right there. I came to Penn State and was like "where are the corner stores?" - OhWord, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Yup, that's me.
What's up Lou! - iashraf, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Grape DRINK!
- DigitalJesus, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17Say it with me.... BO-DE-GA
- OhWord, on 10/15/2007, -1/+11Thanks for the love Digg! Our newest video came out Monday and it's all about the official food of the Internets... cereal.
Check out "Cereal is Dope"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxBI6MH-KT8
and more at http://www.internetscelebrities.com - Roblodocus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Are those prices real? The same products shown on this video would cost probably four times as much here in the north of England. No wonder that guy was fat.
25 cents for a choc ice, that's about 12p. If I were to buy a single one of those here it'd cost me about 50p, and Yorkshire is probably one of the cheapest places to live in the UK. - chazclark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I think something we haven't touched upon is the phenomenom that occurs in poor urban neighborhoods like this, there aren't too many healthy choices. There is in essence a "food dessert" where there's only unhealthy and fast food choices with limited access to fresh food you would find in a grocery store. Considering that the majority of people can't afford cars, it's often hard to get to the ideal places for healthy food. This is what they're left with. Some of those dyes and preservatives featured in this vid actually have been proven to cause irritability in kids. Food for thought.
- uselessexpert, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12DAMN! That brought back memories. My father owned a few back in our days in NYC. My best and worst memories were on 21st and Dorchester Rd, in Flatbush, Brooklyn!!! Quarter water? I didn't know they still sold those. Hey, where are the Now & Laters?
Man, childhood memories.. AWESOME! Thanks for the clip!
BTW...some bodegas, dibble and dabble in illegal substances too.... more of a front sometimes. - smoothlou, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Hey! That white guy is Rafi Kam! He actually has an account on Digg. Oh, and one time, he lost on Jeopardy.
/too much information - DigitalJesus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11uh??
- OhWord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That was our whole motivation for creating this video. We actually got contacted this summer by the mayor's office about the possibility of them using an edited version of Bodega as part of a health education program for at-risk communities. Not sure if that's going to happen or not but we're hopeful that it works out.
- StiGUP, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8yup this is 100% real *****...i live in the bronx.....well i don't live in the ghetto part :) but i've worked in the ghetto parts and you wouldn't believe how cheap ***** is......you can get snapple and vitamin water for $1!!!! i pay at least 1.50 everywhere else....but not in the ghettttooooooo ... ZING ZING....
we got king size m&ms 50 CENTS.....aint that some *****? quarter water...FTW!!!! - T8erT0T, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Dugg for showing the world how to operate while in the Boogie-Down
- thrallie, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8You mean it's not true that bodegas sell weed?
- salinemist, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's ok, you get "free" healthcare.
- davidwasman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6DRINK isnt carbonated. :P
- DteK, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7There goes another great underground institution.
- eatsushi, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8Someone's high!!
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Or blaring salsa/merengue/bachata music pumping over the 30 year old single speaker radio at full volume....
- Sayjumner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I should have known it was you.
Bo-De-Gaaa! - draftingtableX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Bodegas are all over, so long as they're not part of a chain - 711 or WaWa or whatever. Plenty of em in Yonkers and the rest of the sticks.
"Yellow food group" - weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Oh yea! The 64oz Old English that came in the glass "jug" it actually had a finger ring at the top near the mouth the bottle. hahahaha....***** awesome!
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I've heard them called bodegas everywhere I've gone in NYC. That's including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
- BonerMachine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Rather, no wonder so many people living in inner city neighborhoods are fat. Every block is filled with junk food in bodegas and fast food places, and it's all most people can afford. It may taste good, but it sucks man.
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4if by "some" you mean "a lot", and by "dibble and dabble" you mean primary source of income, aaaaaand by "illegal substances" you mean...well illegal substances...lol
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I sure wish they would have addressed the other items in the store. Like the $5.99 bags of Chips Ahoy cookies, or anything else with a brand name, or the small 10 load bottles of Tide for $15.99. They always had a bunch of brand name stuff stickered at like twice the normal price. I always wondered if they actually sold any of that other crap, when I was stumbling in at 3AM for another 40 and a Philly.
- hokie47, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I wish I could buy 40oz in Florida. All we got are weak 32oz. Also, I think they used to, or still do, sell 64oz malt liquor at some places.
- neodorian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6It's funny because that guy is a fatass and when you see the bodega diet you know why.
- cypherus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Here in Dirty Jersey we call them WaWa's...no where else can you walk into a bodega/convenience store and get a tasty hoagie...
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3clearly iashraf has no idea...
There are almost as many New Yorkers in Florida as there are in New York. Try Nashville on for size. I moved here from NYC two years ago. ***** redneck-ville, not to mention all of the ***** bible thumpers... - cd_RW, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4bodegas are a normal part of nyc life. 25cent chips, 50cent tropical fantasy, honey buns, star crunches, freezepops, you name it.
- Schmidtopolis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What the ***** is Juice?
- iRoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Why you didn't moon us earlier?
- inhaler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3We don't have the traditional bodega down here in Ohio, but we have something similar. I grew up in a rural part of the state and we had a little general store next to a video rental place on our "downtown" strip. I remember picking up those quarter ice cream sandwiches with a handful of tootsie rolls and some now and laters for well under a dollar.
Not to mention candy cigarettes were practically the only staple food to buy before your brother's little league games. - picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2In the south they are called "7- 11's". Before that they were "7 come 11" (in reference to the increase in prices), and before that they were "five and dimes"
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2a lot of them sell unusual herbs, give credit and some even sell home made porn magazines (that are no good= ugly women)
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2lol...the normal laws of supply and demand don't apply in the Bodega-verse...
- speel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Bodegas are the ***** i know a place where you can get energy bars for a quarter.
- jayaqt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Bodega also literally means warehouse in Tagalog/Filipino.
- OhWord, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Our new video mentioned earlier in this thread has a Digg page now too.
http://digg.com/videos/comedy/Cereal_is_Dope
Check it out and let us know what you think. - gak001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Man, I live in Pennsylvania and I'd be happy to be able to buy any booze in a supermarket. We are restricted to State stores and beer depots.
- bigfkncee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1and the middle eastern owned store we call Habeebees. at least in BK we do.
- SmilingJess, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Bodegas! It sounds weird, but they are one of the things I missed most when I left New York.
- rezist, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Country Club isn't that bad but why am I paying twice the price in Flatbush?
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yea, the entire city of Orlando is tourist trap. Nothing to do there unless your vacationing there. I bet you work for either a restaurant or a theme park in some fashion do you?
- aduckie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This is basically the same we have in Chicago.
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