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Israelis bringing their genocidal racism here, as if we didnt have enough racism problems already.

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“Itamar Ben-Gvir supporters” are literally called terrorist sympathizers, at best. An Israeli court convicted him of terrorism related offenses. It’s not even controversial. It’s like saying El Chapo wasn’t in a cartel or that Trump never gave $3 hand jobs in an alleyway near the Sbarro in midtown NYC that now sits on West 33rd St.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's a fucking Sbarro in NYC? Why?

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For the same reason there’s a TGI Friday in time square. McDonald’s. Olive Garden. It’s there for the tourists that rather have their slop.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But fake NY pizza in NY? Just go to literally any local. It's not like a Sbarro in Kandahar, that I'd get, but this still makes no sense.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I personally know people that think sbarro (and Olive Garden as a proxy) is on par with “other pizza” as its own thing. Those people recognize it’s not “real pizza”; they just like it for what it is.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Tbf, sometimes I'm right there with em, I'm not above drunk ordering some dominos, or on the rare occasion I go to a mall I may hit the Sbarro (but the fake Chinese food wins every time, let's be real), but it's literally the same thing just more fresh and made to better specs! It's not even "real tacos V taco bell," it's such a close approximation of the "real" thing but lacking soul, whereas taco bell is so far from real tacos that it'd be more understandable to prefer the fake version. Like even Olive Garden V real italian I get, because it's americanized enough, but Sbarro is not far enough removed from real pizza as to necessitate this phenomenon.

I could understand getting Sbarro in Chicago, for those averse to deep dish, because it's a whole different style. I could understand some Chicago chain in NYC, for those who want deep dish. I could even understand Jets "detroit" style, because that's different too, but Sbarro in NYC is literally just "worse and more expensive version of the same thing you could have got in 20 different shops on your way here."

[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I've been here my whole life and, honestly, we don't know either. But The Office made fun of it when Michael went to NYC!

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sbarro was founded by two Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, they were probably real NYC pizza at one point

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Huh, TIL, at one point it probably was.

But at one point people liked Kanye West, too, and then shit happened. Times have changed lol.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I don’t know. I live in New Orleans and they had a Red Lobster in the suburbs and someone is trying to put Chick Fil’A restaurants all over town. (The someone is literally a guy who got rich via owning a garbage truck company.)

Tourists like shitty fast food sometimes. I don’t know why people get the worst fried chicken in the city but people do. Some toddlers throw a fit if their dinner isn’t chicken nuggets.