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Only Suckers - and New Yorkers - Wait In Line For Food

If that pizza doesn't come with a villa in Tuscany, you're wasting your time

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Matt Meltzer
Mar 04, 2026
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If anyone deserves to get rained on, it’s these people/Photo by Roshan lanova on Unsplash

Over the past five-ish years, you may have noticed some unpleasantness that’s come with the wave of people from, according to them, “the greatest city in the entire universe, and a few universes we don’t know about yet.” Things like Knicks fans. And studios that cost more than your parents’ house. But today’s hot take isn’t about any of those things, it’s about a human behavior so inherently dumb you’d only expect it from hockey players. I’m talking, of course, about waiting in line for food.

Waiting in line for food is a popular thing for New Yorkers, who are known to wait in line for toothpaste if the weather is nice. One might think with the abundance of great museums, unrivaled restaurants, and world-class theatre they claim to have, there’d be better things to do than spend an entire morning queueing up for a donut. Then again, you’d also guess they’d have public trash cans.

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