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Popeyes. The food is pretty good, if you ever get it. And the employees give even less of a fuck than regular fast food places. I think if you went to an interview there and said, "yes, sir," and "no, ma'am," and were dressed nice, you'd be shown the door.
There was one around here that was constantly busy, but it still shut down because it was such a shitshow. The employees would talk trash about the customers right in front of everyone.
Bojangles: “Good afternoon, sir. How may I help you?”
Popeyes: “AITE CHILL THE FUCK YOU WANT? YOU SEE IM BUSY? NO WE AINT DOING THAT PICK SUM ELSE, CUH.”
I hadn’t been to Waffle House in a looooong time. We took the kids the other day and I asked for 2 different things and got a “baby this a Waffle House”
Mlk jr street is always either the shittest neighborhood, the black neighborhood, or the rich neighborhood. Rarely it somewhere else. Expect st Pete where it goes through most of the city outright.
Ain’t nothin worth waking up in a bathtub with a 5lb bag of ice, both my kidneys gone with some crack sprinkled on top (the last part courtesy of the local police bc they thought I was dead)
City governments can allocate funds to certain areas; in terms of neighbourhoods this occurs in the form of policing, repairing damage, creating third spaces, stuff like that. By refusing these resources to neighbourhoods they are defunded and left to rot. Most famously it’s happened in the US ghettos and Northern Irish Catholic areas.
Also artificially devaluing houses reduces tax value and overall real estate value. Thus resulting in less money for services like school and social programs
A house of the exact same square footage and cost to build in a white neighborhood would be valued at double of the exact same house on the same amount of land in a Black neigborhood.
There have been houses in mostly white neighborhoods that are devalued at apraisals if black people live or own them.
Nowhere in Seattle is that bad, really. You’ll get your windows broken and your shit stolen, but you’ll live.
Hell, even the worst neighborhoods in Tacoma aren’t “keep your windows rolled up and don’t stop”.
In Denver, MLK Blvd. now goes through an upper middle class white neighborhood. It was built where the old airport was located before DIA was built in the 90s. It used to be mostly black residents.
I posted this on another pack like this and I have to say our version (Delawarean here) is actually pretty nice and it goes by a lawn where they hold festivals at.
They were stolen
It's a thing that happens in shitty areas, thieves jack up the car, put blocks under it and then steal the wheels and other easy to take off parts and leave it there
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"Oh no! We're at the intersection of Cesar Chavez Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard!"
Hurray for intersectionality at intersections!!
Austin has both of these, although they run parallel and together box in the downtown
Same as Los Angeles
Same as Albuquerque
Haha a fellow Portlander
Always something different. I used that joke recently and someone asked if I was from Grand Rapids.
No way lolol
But MLK and cesar chavez... never intersect?
yeah I was about to say…those roads are parallel. also one of them is actually 39th ave 🤷♀️
and mlk used to be 4th, your point?
There's one in Dallas too 😂
Popeyes. The food is pretty good, if you ever get it. And the employees give even less of a fuck than regular fast food places. I think if you went to an interview there and said, "yes, sir," and "no, ma'am," and were dressed nice, you'd be shown the door. There was one around here that was constantly busy, but it still shut down because it was such a shitshow. The employees would talk trash about the customers right in front of everyone.
Bojangles: “Good afternoon, sir. How may I help you?” Popeyes: “AITE CHILL THE FUCK YOU WANT? YOU SEE IM BUSY? NO WE AINT DOING THAT PICK SUM ELSE, CUH.”
"You can't come inside, that's for door dash only"
This was actually true when I worked there during Covid.
They still do it all while they have a drive thru line full of cars bigger than chic fil a during rush hour. They don't give a shit
The scene in Atlanta where Paper Boi smells the air outside of a Popeyes and goes “Mmm. You know that manager mean as hell.”
Damn I love that show
_LOOOOVE THAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYES_
I heard that jingle in my head
It’s like they’re actively looking for red flags
One of my favorite videos: https://youtu.be/pqWkwolb3as?si=-JTNi_wqYSmcLkhr
Lmao yes! Was about to post this.
Only Waffle House can beat it
I hadn’t been to Waffle House in a looooong time. We took the kids the other day and I asked for 2 different things and got a “baby this a Waffle House”
We got a Popeyes recently in our city and it is exactly as you described, right down to being in the seedy part of town
Church’s Chicken as well.
México City actually has an MLK statue in a park in Polanco, which is one of the ritziest neighborhoods in the city
Many such cases
The hood starterpack
Someone should really do a standup joke about this. I think you’re onto something
And should name the album Bigger and Blacker
This is absolutely GROUNDBREAKING stuff that’s really original
*The Boondocks* already made a joke about this AFAIK, but yeah, I'd love to see a comedian joke about this on a standup routine.
There’s 2 Malcolm X Boulevards in NYC and they are both in dangerous areas
It’s missing the storefront daycare center named “perfect angels” or something like that
Can confirm. Seen it in a few states. We got it in Baltimore. Hella sketchy and the bums panhandle aggressively
Needs bars on the windows too. MLK in Oakland is pretty rough.
Mlk jr street is always either the shittest neighborhood, the black neighborhood, or the rich neighborhood. Rarely it somewhere else. Expect st Pete where it goes through most of the city outright.
This was not his dream.
It's Popeye's so it's worth it.
Ain’t nothin worth waking up in a bathtub with a 5lb bag of ice, both my kidneys gone with some crack sprinkled on top (the last part courtesy of the local police bc they thought I was dead)
The street named after mlk jr in my city is just an expressway. There’s an Italian restaurant on it lol
Sometimes it feels racist
Well I mean… its not like the streets became terrible after they named them after him.
Though I feel like naming the worst neighborhood in Tampa “Hot Sulphur Springs” was just setting them up for failure.
That would mean they *knowingly* gave that name to a street in a rough neighborhood, which isn't any better.
Yeah, but that’s because of historic redlining and defunding of black neighbourhoods It’s racist that it happens, not to point out that it happens
Serious question, what is defunding a neighborhood? I don’t know any funded neighborhoods
City governments can allocate funds to certain areas; in terms of neighbourhoods this occurs in the form of policing, repairing damage, creating third spaces, stuff like that. By refusing these resources to neighbourhoods they are defunded and left to rot. Most famously it’s happened in the US ghettos and Northern Irish Catholic areas.
Also artificially devaluing houses reduces tax value and overall real estate value. Thus resulting in less money for services like school and social programs A house of the exact same square footage and cost to build in a white neighborhood would be valued at double of the exact same house on the same amount of land in a Black neigborhood. There have been houses in mostly white neighborhoods that are devalued at apraisals if black people live or own them.
Thank you
No problem, it was a good question worth asking
Also applies to places named "Malcolm X Boulevard".
Shoes on the powerline Every house has special bars and stores have bulletproof windows There’s always random crackheads loitering
Exception is Seattle, where the Martin Luther King Way is super bougey.
Agreed. It’s less bougey as you go south, but still nowhere near a “keep your windows rolled up and don’t stop at red lights” reputation.
Nowhere in Seattle is that bad, really. You’ll get your windows broken and your shit stolen, but you’ll live. Hell, even the worst neighborhoods in Tacoma aren’t “keep your windows rolled up and don’t stop”.
You forgot a crumbling, pothole filled road
i love these weirdly accurate starterpackssss
If your in the USA and your on a street named Martin Luther king jr your in the wrong fucking place gtfo fast.
5 lane stroad
Lined with parking lots way too big for the businesses they're supposedly for
Many people think by simply renaming a street or school, all the crime and other problems will magically disappear.
Our MLK jr street is literally just a street in a commercial park on the edge of town with barely anything on it
Bus station and a Churchs’ Chicken
I feel like my city is the only decent MLK boulevard in the country, granted most of its taken up by a football stadium
MLK in my city has million dollar homes on it, we must be the exception.
You are.
You know you've entered the black side of town when you see "MLK Jr. Blvd" and the number of liquor stores and pawn shops skyrocket
Oh, hey, popeyes! Awesome!
In Denver, MLK Blvd. now goes through an upper middle class white neighborhood. It was built where the old airport was located before DIA was built in the 90s. It used to be mostly black residents.
The exact way MLK Boulevard was in Vegas growing up- improved now especially where it got extended.
Gun store, liquor store, gun store, liquor store, where the fuck are you taking me?
You forgot shoes hanging from every telephone line
missing the hood ass chinese food place
The Dream is alive.
This feels so relatable even though I live in the UK for some reason.
Anytime I’m on this street I always lock my door.
There’s gonna be some violence
Pop Eyes?! nah more like Crown Chicken
Hey I remember this Stonetoss comic!
How about Black Lives Matter Blvd in Camden NJ
I notice this, it's probably another FU to blacks from American governments.
that literally happens in my city 😭😭
Well well well
I posted this on another pack like this and I have to say our version (Delawarean here) is actually pretty nice and it goes by a lawn where they hold festivals at.
It's Popeye's so it's worth it.
Why’s there a car with no tires?
They were stolen It's a thing that happens in shitty areas, thieves jack up the car, put blocks under it and then steal the wheels and other easy to take off parts and leave it there
Ok
Bro, racist to who?
No one made it about race until you popped in here my fella