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Jennifer Lopez has had a tough March so far. Things got bad when she was forced to cancel multiple tour dates across the US due to low ticket sales. Now, Jennifer Lopez is getting trolled for her preposterous bodega order.
Nobody can or would deny that Jennifer Lopez is a native New Yorker. J.Lo was born and raised in The Bronx and that has been a centerpiece of her musical career due to the incredible success of songs like ‘Jenny From The Block’ where she plays up her humble upbringings in The Bronx.
Native New Yorker or not, Jennifer Lopez is getting trolled hard for a clip where she rattles off her bodega order and even drops a ‘if you know, you know’ in reference to her drink while everyone in NYC is scratching their heads like ‘what’s she talkin’ bout?’
Jennifer Lopez’s bodega order is ‘ham and cheese on a roll’ with an ‘orange drink (if you know, you know).’ One of my BroBible team members seems to think she might be talking about the orange quarter water barrel drinks that kind of look like mini grenades. He also seemed to think that a ham and cheese on a hero with all the fixings isn’t that uncommon.
But she didn’t specify any of that, did she? And it’s led to videos like these:
A look at J-Lo’s comment section on her recent posts reveals that people now come specifically to her comments just to read the trolling. One person wrote “the way I come here not because I’m a fan but to get a good laugh reading the comments is my new hobby.”
One person chimed in with “me looking at this TikTok, eating chips from the bodega” while another person chimed in demanding answers. They wrote “hey, can you clarify the specific orange drink and small bag of chips for the New York girlies? I want to wrap this up by EOD.”
Someone else joked that J-Lo’s latest TikTok of going to a Broadway show “had me cravin’ a ham & cheese on a roll” and there are truly too many comments to keep track of demanding she clarify which orange drink she’s talking about.
Coincidentally, Jennifer Lopez has her own line of ‘orange drink’ that’s a Delola L’Orange Spritz ready-to-drink cocktail with amaro, orange, and passionfruit. Sounds delicious but not something I’d expect to see in a bodega.
I’ll tell you where I stand on this: we should not be shaming anyone for their bodega order. To each their own. Eating at the corner bodega is a staple of NYC life for native New Yorkers and newcomers alike. It doesn’t take but a few days for anyone moving to NYC to start shopping at the bodega which is equal parts deli, grocery store, and pharmacy.
I will say that your bodega order is heavily dependent on the exact cross streets you live on. My order living uptown was vastly different from my order in SoHo where the bodegas on my corner catered to a completely different customer. But JustinBobbyx13 is right about the BEC (Bacon, Egg, and Cheese) being a staple everywhere, unless it’s a bagel shop like H&H in the UES that didn’t (doesn’t?) offer eggs on bagels.
As an example, when I was living downtown my bodega would make sandwiches until they sold out of bread and my order would be dependent on the type of bread that was available by the time I got there to order. Sometimes it was a Portuguese roll, sometimes it was a hero.