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August 18, 2009 |
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Cigs and Dutch
FOUND by Nick Zegel
in Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Walking home from a bodega I looked down to find this written list. It appears not everyone runs to the store for just milk & eggs. This list is written on a ripped piece of a Little Debbie Swiss Rolls box.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What's a bodega?
@Clover, a bodega is a wine cellar, either the kind you keep your own stash in, a bar that has their own cellar, or the kind wine-makers have. In practice in the US it's a name for a tapas bar and/or Spanish restaurant that serves different types of wine.
Somebody gonna throw a party? That's a lot of ciggies though. Obviously smokers-only!
"1 box" of what?
Convenience stores in the northeastern part of the US are also called bodegas. I think this list would be a little more appropriate for a convenience store than a wine cellar...unless of course wine cellars have started storing Day's soda and Ginger Ale.
These smokers were particular about there tobacco and after smoking munchies. The partiers had money that day, when broke any bummed cigarette will do. I smoked Pall Mall nonfiltered while in the military and others quickly learned not to bum one from me. Box of what? Maybe a new slang term.
This is a party list, for sure. Smokes, blunt wraps and enough mixer to compensate for the booze, all ready purchased. Why else would there be specific amounts for pop? Been there, done that, didn't have a list though, might have helped....
It's not 1 Box.
It's 113 ox. (should be oxen when plural).
This herd should try the patch or something. Smoking will kill them.
I thought a bodega was a place to buy pot.
yes I get all of my knowledge from movies.
lder now, and sweet as ever
but not so very little anymore,
gets stuck in the desert of Aisle Three
lost amid all those pre-fab pastries,
under the Muzak moon’s empty promises
—all that artifice but none of the art—
not a single whole grain anywhere in sight,
only icing and more icing, everything frozen,
just like little Debbie, frozen in the fifties
with no bread-crumb trail left behind
to lead her out of bondag
Two boxes of Newport one hundred
Will certainly put us in sickbed.
A vanilla blunt wrap
Someone give me a slap
'cause that puppet's on top of a quadraped
I thought Bodega was the plant that Luke Skywalker was from...
This looks like an inventory list for the contents of a homeless person's shopping cart. Or perhaps it's a semi-homeless person's hand basket.
Kids! What are you gonna do? Back in the day, we just found our empty cardboard boxes to play with. We got our ice cream from the guy driving the truck down the street ringing those annoying bells. We got soda from our own refrigerators, maybe asking mom, maybe not. There were no lists. What is this list-making mania? Sigh.
Also, where I've been in the northeastern U.S., a bodega was a 'convenience store' or small urban grocery in a Hispanic neighborhood.
I am so enlightened this morning.
I reckon this is the list a person working in a small shop made for what stock needed refilling to face up at the end of the day.
Effie you are right. I worked in a Bodega during college and it's a restocking list. I've never heard the term Bodega used in reference to a wine cellar. In minnesota we call locally owned convenience stores bodega's
This could be a losal bar's list of refill supplies, smokes as a convenience to custoemrs and mixers for drinks. The cigars are an odd mix, my sheriff buddy says this is the type of cigars that pot smokers use to make spiffs/blunts...so all around, this is a list of death.
local customers
Last week it was Mexican restaurants - this weeks it's Bodega's...
Think this is a store inventory replacement list.
So what is Dutch?
And what is Vanilla Blunt? (sounds painful!)
dutch and vanilla blunt along with everything between 1box and ginger ale are cigars, not he best of brands either.
Not the best of brands, but nobody's smoking tobacco in them.
Ahhhh Kool's and a lots of Ginger Ale besides everything else on the list reminds me of my Grandma's shopping list.
Someone got high.
Geek alert!
"Degoba System" is where Yoda is from, not Luke Skywalker, and not Bodega.
I am so ashamed that 1) I know that; and 2) I had to point it out. Feel free to toss your ciggies and blunts at me in derision, but please not the 2 liter of ginger ale.
Spam protection is QUITE appropriate for today's find: 28 x 15 =
Wait. How come nobody has said that this list was written by a black person?
I used to smoke Newport Box. 100's always made me throw up, and Kools only if they ran out of Newports. Have you seen how much Newports cost these days!! Holy crap, I'm glad I quit.
How come, Terrie? Really? Gee, it seems pretty obvious why...
wish in g you hadn't said that, only if you don't come around very much. It's not obvious, especially since somebody here quite often says something like that...so I was being a smart ass.
Do you really wish I didn't say it? Why? Because it sounds racist? Is it racist if I say that Newport, Kool, and Dutch cigars are extremely popular with black people? How about that there are a lot of black people in Pa.? A black neighborhood seems to be a place you'd probably find a Cecil B. Moore Avenue?
Gee..
Gator Girl, you are awesome! I love the 'geek' info!
@ Terrie: Black people are less than 11 percent of Pennsylvania's population. And yeah, that does sound racist. I actually "come around" here a lot, and I haven't seen many comments like that. The area around Cecil B Moore Ave is actually relatively integrated. And I know lots of white people who smoke blunts. Menthol cigarettes maybe not so much, but what the hell was your point? So, yeah, I really wish you didn't say it. Chillax and roll one, will ya?
We do this where i work it's just an order list of what is needed for the shelf it's not all for one person or a party, it's most likely written by case not by piece
@Gator Girl, Thanks for the geek info! I really couldn't remember. Degoba/bodega - looks close enough to the same to me! Dyslexia is an awful thing, especially when you get old.
Dear your not so unique in reality,
It would surely help if you stopped changing your name. You can call me whatever you want, you don't know me. And I'm sure some of your best friends are black. I must be making up that thing I said that somebody says "a black person wrote this" since you've never seen it. I am sincerely sorry that you are so offended that you feel you have to keep insulting me. Have a nice day :)
PS-Not that it matters, but I actually meant that there are a lot of black people in Philadelphia. But thank you for being so concerned about me, you found statistics to educate me with.
Wait a minute. As I read it, TISV in TUV didn't even suggest that anyone of any particular race color or creed wrote the list. she said
"How come nobody has said that this list was written by a black person?"
Quite clearly a question, not a statement.
cigarettes and soda, the obvious chaser for Little Debbie's
This is how we who work at the convience store know what needs to be stocked. We look, make a list, and go get everything at once. Just my opinion though
I agree: it's a pick list for restocking the shelves at a convenience store (or bodega).
Definitely the last minute party list. The several diff types of cigarettes gives it away, everyone has their own kind. and the diff flavors of blunt wraps lol.
the last stuff is for mixing!
They still have menthol cigs in the States?
Freak show!
"Get cancer, but keep it cooooool."
Or in this case, Koooool.
At first I thought "kool box" meant a beer cooler. You know, for the ginger ale etc.
Is there still a bar in Missoula called The Bodega? (or Bodega's)
This isn't necessarily a party list. I worked at a drug store that (surprisingly) sold a bunch of cigarettes. The town I live in has at least three rehab centers, and some of the caretakers will buy cigarettes for the patients. They usually have long lists like this when they come in, and you can spot them a mile away.