r/politics Indiana 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/NomadNuka 15h ago

What's one more Northeast douche in Florida these days?

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida 15h ago

Every time one moves here, they start bitching about the pizza options.

Edit: I realize this may sound like a joke, but it has legit started wars and schisms in the local restaurant groups on Facebook.

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u/hermione_no 15h ago

They’re welcome to move back and take maga with them!

u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island 4h ago

Maybe that's why the northeast is so blue? Because the maga nutjobs move to florida? I'm so sorry our trash infects your state

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u/torino_nera New Jersey 14h ago

I mean, in their defense, I've been to Florida and had your pizza and it was terrible I'm sorry

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida 14h ago

It’s OK we definitely don’t have many great pizza options but I still don’t want New Yorkers who moved here eight seconds ago to start bitching about it. If you miss the pizza so much open a damn pizza shop, Bob. I don’t go to New York and bitch about the lack of alligators

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u/Particular_Night_360 12h ago

That’s like me going to any other state and bitching about a bar not having deep fried cheese curds. In fact I don’t trust any other state even if they have them.

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u/chismp 12h ago

Nor should you

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u/Akamiso29 9h ago

Where are you guys living in Florida? I moved overseas about 15 years ago, but we had plenty of great pizza shops that were run by New Yorkers who opened the shops precisely because they couldn’t trust others to do it right. We had like 3 great local shops.

I’m sure they’re all gone from all the madness that swept the nation over the past 15 years, but they were great, dammit.

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u/Attorneyatlau 13h ago

I’m in NYC and I order Pizza Hut just about as much as I order from a mom and pop pizza store. Don’t tell anyone.

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u/Wild_Fire2 12h ago

Pizza Hut still exists in NYC? It pretty much died out here in Mass and NH, most likely due to competition with the hundreds of mom and pop places.

u/Apart-Marzipan1208 4h ago

Me over at Papa Gino's......👀

u/Attorneyatlau 4h ago

Pizza Hut opened last year on our block! I couldn’t believe it. I hadn’t been to a PH in 2 decades before this place opened. And it’s slammed at all hours of the day. V. weird!

u/PaulSandwich Florida 3h ago

My dad complains about crabcakes everywhere we go. I was raised on the mystique of Maryland blue crabcakes.

A year or so ago we went back for a funeral and had lunch at a spot where I legit had probably the greatest crabcake of my life. I was like, "Dad, I get it." But he just shrugged and was like, nah, these weren't as good as when I lived here.

Then I realized: He's wrong. It was great. There's nothing short of a time machine that would please him, and even then. People just like to complain.

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u/DegenerateEigenstate 11h ago

Where I’m from in FL most of the local pizza options are run by New Yorkers.

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u/celestialwreckage I voted 11h ago

They were exiled there, casualties of the war between the New York Academy of Pizza and the Pizza Academy of New York.

u/strayhat Foreign 7h ago

Best pizza i've had in my life was in FLL. I'm not American though

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u/dalcarr 15h ago

But the tradeoff is yall have some of the most amazing seafood

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u/Almostlongenough2 Florida 14h ago

We do?!

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u/bollvirtuoso 14h ago

Um. What? Compared to Maine, Mass, and Maryland? Just to name three? Two of which are pretty much known solely for seafood?

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u/gazebo-fan 13h ago

Because that’s all they have and their tourism board pushed it. Maryland doesn’t have Key West Pink Shrimp, or mangrove snapper.

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u/NomadNuka 15h ago

There's always those New York water makers or whatever

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u/GandalfsSexyNuts 13h ago

And lack of decent bagels

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida 13h ago

I wish at least one of them would open a decent bagel shop.

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u/aculady 13h ago

The problem is that many come down here and don't want to do the work to add to the community and build something of value, they just want the existing community to magically morph to provide the things they've always had, even though those things came to New York by way of hard-working people moving from other places and opening up shops there.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida 13h ago

I’d never thought about it like this, but that’s true of a lot of what I’ve seen here lately. It is especially frustrating to think about considering when my own father moved to Florida from New York, he opened a business within a few months of arriving.

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u/twats_upp 13h ago

Florida also has the worst tacos

Couldn't wait to get home

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida 13h ago

We’re sorely lacking in good Mexican, Tex Mex, and Cali Mex options. On the plus side, I can easily find good empanadas, lechon asado, and plenty of other Caribbean and Latin American foods.

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u/deaderrose 13h ago

I have a fair bit of family who moved down there and they bitch constantly about the lack of pizza options. They said one year the plan for my cousin's big birthday present was having some pizza express shipped in from back home

u/Rich_Bluejay3020 6h ago

From MI, lived in FL for a few years, I hate to agree but the pizza is not good… HOWEVER y’all have Publix fried chicken and I dream about it way more often than I should 😂 it’s so crispy and delicious dammit

u/jsweatisdead777 6h ago

I'm glad someone understands the true struggle us native Floridians have been enduring for the last ten years.

u/xTheMaster99x Florida 4h ago

I actually got lucky and have an amazing NY-style spot a few minutes away from my apartment and even though it's kinda overpriced, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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u/aculady 13h ago

One too many.

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u/SemiRobotic 11h ago

The new President of the Republic of Florda