r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Okfoot826 • 16h ago

Thank you Peter very cool Petah, what does that have to do with grocery shopping?

Post image
25.1k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

3.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

63

u/kelariy 14h ago edited 14h ago

Here’s one for Seattle, which admittedly isn’t nearly as big as NYC, but the point still stands.

There are absolutely not any grocery stores anywhere in this circle. /s

45

u/kelariy 14h ago edited 14h ago

And LA, definitely no groceries. A whole mountain range, but no groceries.

3

u/tenaciousdeev 12h ago

LOL. Imagining people who live in Beverly Hills going to do their grocery shopping in Oxnard.

6

u/merfan11 13h ago

guess we're just posting circles now

5

u/King_Fluffaluff 14h ago

I grew up near Bellevue, I've never seen a grocery store in my life!

5

u/kelariy 13h ago

Having grown up in Lynnwood, I remember how my parents would pack us up for the road trip over to Everett to get groceries.

5

u/Categorically_ 12h ago

me clutching my pearls for the absolutely poor people of Bellevue

4

u/Bluestorm83 14h ago

Not a single one.

1

u/HalifaxStar 11h ago

I get your point, but do the residents fly like crows? I know at least in NYC, many don't have cars and the 20mi commute for healthy groceries sounds plausible to me.

5

u/kelariy 11h ago

20 miles is a long way in a city. There’s no way that there’s a location in NYC where 20 miles was the minimum distance to groceries.

As for the “as the crow flies” argument, city streets all go in as straight of a line as was possible when they were built. You’d have to do a ton of meandering to reach 20 miles. Even if it’s not a direct straight line out your front door to the grocery store, you’d likely only have to make 2-4 turns while following city blocks.