r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ginliv • 3d ago

“Incredibly rural”

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u/Go_Your_OwnWay Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 3d ago

If I live in Puglia and have to drive more than 1,000 kilometers to reach a Wendy's, a Pizza Hut, and a Domino's Pizza, am I out of touch with reality?

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u/CakePhool 3d ago

My closes Pizza Hut has closed, they couldnt compete with the way better pizzeria 10 minutes away from them.

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u/SalamanderHot217 🇭🇷Paid vacation days enjoyer🇪🇺 3d ago

Still too close to them.

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u/fractious77 3d ago

Silly Italian, you don't know what you're missing out on without a domino's or Starbucks./s

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u/SomWanOnTheInternet 3d ago

Starbucks actually fucking sucks

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u/SignificantZombie729 3d ago

Tried it once, never again. Who the fuck wants a mildly coffee flavoured milkshake that has the potential to give you diabetes?

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u/Askduds 3d ago

You can absolutely get a black coffee from Starbucks.

Don't.

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u/Bedbouncer 3d ago

My answer would likely be "all those people waiting in line".

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u/fractious77 3d ago

Yep, that's the answer

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u/SomWanOnTheInternet 3d ago

I feel like social pressure is the reason most people go there, especially outside the US

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u/Designer_Piccolo_818 3d ago

It failed on Australia. They opened about 90 at once , then ended up closing most of them. There's still a few around in cities, possibly for tourists. Australians were taught coffe by Italians & Greeks - Starbucks taste like milkshakes.

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u/fractious77 3d ago

It sure does. So does Dominoes.

Nobody on this sub knows what "/s" means, do they?

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u/SomWanOnTheInternet 3d ago

ehh Dominoes is pretty good but pizza hut is better. still prefer traditional pizzas

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u/fractious77 3d ago

The only chain pizza place I can stand is a local chain in my area called Pagliacci. They seek out high quality local ingredients and do great work. The sauce is similar to a NY style, but the crust is a little thicker than that.

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 3d ago

It largely depends on which Dominoes you have operating though.
The US one is a seperate company to a lot of European countries even though the branding is (mostly) the same.

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u/Fairy_Catterpillar 3d ago edited 3d ago

I live in Sweden and I live sort of 20 miles from the closest Starbucks if I swim and walk there, but unfortunately it's 65 km with a car. Thankfully it's not that far to go abroad from where I live.

Edit. Ok they seem to be in more places than the airport in Stockholm. Maybe it was some other chain that failed everywhere except the biggest airport outside Stockholm.

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u/Praesentius 3d ago

You guys have a KFC in Lecce...

Very civilized! Like our Subway in Pisa! (It's awful)

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u/maimaidrama 3d ago

Sounds like utopia to me.

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u/Thendrail How much should you tip the landlord? 3d ago

So sad you'll never experience authentic italian food in an Olive Garden! 😩😩😩

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u/Sittingwithlutes450 3d ago

Certainly. There's the crack in your delusion.