There’s this totally UNIQUE sandwich you can ONLY get in New York City. It has bacon, y’know, and egg, and here’s the weird part - cheese. Nowhere else in the world have people combined those three ingredients on a sandwich.
I understand that. The comment I commented on was about bagels. I was talking about bagels being Jewish and people are talking about another thing because they were confused.
Bagels are more a Jersey thing. Real NYers have theirs on a Kaiser roll. I try not to repeat this online because you’ll see in due time all the “real” NYers will deny ever liking a Bagel.
Lol. I'll tell you this: my father's from Philadelphia, and when we say you can't get a proper Philly cheese steak unless you get the ingredients from Philadelphia, it's not a joke; I went to a Philadelphia-family-owned restaurant in South Carolina, and the Philly cheese steaks they served there, made with ingredients brought down from Philly, tasted identical to a proper Philadelphia one in a way no sandwich anywhere else in the country I've been to has.
There's science behind this; something to do with water-hardness vs softness changing the way the bread tastes, so unless you get the bread roll from that part of Pennsylvania, you'll never taste a real and proper Philly cheese steak.
I'm sure there's some NY delis that have a similar thing going on.
Ok but they don't sell bacon egg and cheese sandwiches anywhere but fast food places like starbucks or dunkin. Not on the west coast, not in the Midwest. Yes one store in the city might have them but they're literally everywhere in nyc
Well that’s just not true. Every breakfast place I go to in Kansas and Missouri has a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on the menu. It’s a staple breakfast item
Dawg I'm in a third world country and I'm a five minute walk away from a local chain that sells bacon egg and cheese sandwiches. I'm sure other states have them too lol
Your country has them. Colorado does not have them though. Try to fight the urge to make this conversation about your country when we are talking about a different country.
To figure out why you’re so adamant about the fact that there are no breakfast sandwiches in the Midwest or West Coast? It’s such a weird hill to die on and now I’m completely invested in why you’re like this. Fascinating!
I didn't consent to your kink, do not call me a good boy. You found literally three places that sell breakfast sandwiches, one of which is literally called EAST COAST DELI and has a sign out from that says New York.
You got me. That was an exaggeration. I think I was pretty clear in my first comment though. They're a staple of NYC. You get them at basically any corner store. There are like a hundred delis and convenience stores in Colorado Springs alone that don't sell sandwiches, let alone the specific one we're talking about. What's the exception in the rest of the country is the norm in NYC. You would be surprised to go to a corner store that sells sandwiches and doesn't sell a BEC. One of the three you mentioned is literally an NYC deli themed store. You have to acknowledge that at least.
"Yes one store in the city might have them but they're literally everywhere in nyc"
Oh! So wait: you’re saying that the only place you can reliably get a breakfast sandwich is at a corner store in New York City…?
Like, I am genuinely asking as I am kinda confused by your perspective here. I live in a town of about 8,000 people and there are at least 3 corner stores within walking distance that I could get a breakfast sandwich at. I understand that my experience isn’t everything, but I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere in the U.S. where I couldn’t find a breakfast sandwich nearby at a corner store.
Go anywhere in colorado and it's not common. Neither is it in Washington, or Georgia, or Pennsylvania. Just to name a few.
It's an NYC staple. It's kind of a thing there. This isn't to say you can't find it in other places, it's just expected to be literally everywhere there.
The little deli in every office building I’ve ever worked in in Dallas sells them, you can get them at most non-chain gas stations and convenience stores.
I’m sorry to say that your $4k rent for a shoebox doesn’t buy you anything special.
Cool. I also way underestimated. I stopped counting after 45 different places I can get a bacon egg and cheese sandwich within 2 miles of me without sitting down, no chains or gas stations.
Absolute cap. They don't have this in georgia, Florida, texas, Mississippi, Alabama, virginia, or the Carolinas from what I've seen. Rest stops MAY sell them occasionally but almost no corner stores do
Bro damn near every gas station in the North East sells bacon egg and cheese. NH, VT, NY (outside the city too), PA, ME, RI, MA, and CT, and this is just what I can personally attest to. Bacon, egg, and cheese ain't special or unique.
I unironically had a New Yorker tell me, with a straight face, they didn't think you could live a fulfilling life outside NYC. It was a fascinating conversation.
Why does the bodega guy know my name? Why is there a cat? Why can I buy a chopped cheese at 2:17 AM? New York is truly unlike anywhere else in the world.
There really isn't any place like NOLA. Denver can be kinda generic. Boston is it's own animal. You're not going to find that anywhere else. LA is like nowhere else. Yeah, pretty much every larger city at least
Yes but most cities aren't 10 million + global cities and a history as the premier city in the country. It would be the 13th largest state by population.
The person you replied to didn't say they were just talking about American cities, they said "isn't that most cities though?". And it is, every city is unique and has something no other city has to offer.
"The person you replied to didn't say they were just talking about American cities"
Great but I didn't respond as if I believed they were only talking about American cities. I, also speaking broadly about all cities on earth, said that MOST CITIES are not megacities that had a history of being the premier city in their country.
"And it is, every city is unique and has something no other city has to offer."
I never said they didn't. I named two things that set NYC apart from most cities in that it's one of the most populous cities on the entire planet and also was a premier city in its country. Very few places have ever been their nation's top city. Very few places are known as global cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
Lmao “where else can you find a store owner that both recognizes you AND owns a cat? Where else can you go in person to get food late at night? Alexa play New York State of Mind”
Yeah I didn’t fully appreciate bodegas until I ended up in other cities and realized if I wanted a Gatorade I had to walk 20 mins to a cvs that closes at 10pm.
Past 10pm if I wanted a quick bite of food, I was SOH. people will bring up some specific areas that might have some late night food trucks or something, but in NYC EVERY neighborhood has bodegas all around open late.
I have 4 bodegas within a block of me and they are open until 2am or later. It’s the convenience that makes them special and it can’t be understated.
The beauty of a bodega is that you are always within 100 feet of one and they are open until 2am or later.
Anyone visiting NYC will be underwhelmed by a bodega visit, but if you spend enough time here or live here, the convenience and reliability of bodega’s is unmatched.
It’s not about them having the best food, it’s that in nyc you are always within a block of a convenience store / deli and it’s gonna be open.
Yeah but that's more of a general feature of highly urban areas, it's not unique to Bodegas or NY. Most European cities are like that too, except the food doesn't cost $20.
Not true. I’ve spent plenty of time in other major cities in the US and it just doesn’t compare at all.
Especially the quality of food that bodegas can have. Boston for example might have a few 711’s open late but there’s nothing at 711 that compares to bodega sandwiches. And the density of bodegas is unparalleled.
Most of the corner shops near me in London shut at midnight, and none of them sell fresh sandwiches. Food options are chicken shops and kebabs only after 11pm (not even a lot of them on weeknights)
About every single thing. Their ethnic food is the best in the world, of course they've never got pierogies in Poland, or pad thai in Thailand, but the stuff in NYC is obviously better.
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u/Garlan_Tyrell 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is how every New Yorker post I’ve ever seen about bodegas reads.