These comments are so weird. I only found out what a bodega was recently, so I’ve added it to my brain as “corner shop”. I didn’t even know they were peculiar to a specific area until this post.

So they’re corner shops. Everything people comment about them being different still comes under the umbrella of “corner shop”. It’s weird to see people yapping about how they’re different and then giving reasons that… still mean corner shop.

Americans have so little culture for themselves they have to make even something as common and ubiquitous as a corner shop, all about them.

All this yapping and not a single one of you geniuses figured out the real difference of a bodega. You can get loosies. Single cigarettes and buy beer in single cans/past legal hours.

So what you’re missing is that the defining features of a bodega aren’t offered to foreigners like you because you aren’t part of the culture.