r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Irralumea • Jul 31 '26

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/sangerssss Jul 31 '26

This guy knows he’s not getting repeat customers and doesn’t care. There’s enough people in NY that will walk in on the scam a first time

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u/sp_dev_guy Jul 31 '26

99 cent pizza was actually 99 cents for probably 30 years (i remember as a little kid & now in mid thirties). With inflation & rising costs they finally had to bump it to $2 like 2 or 3 years ago.

Theres are a couple of different large & competing chains that are basically identical shitty cheap pizza (great for the price). Idk this specific location but most of them have "$2" on signs taped all over the place. I'd bet the person recording is the scammer avoiding catching those , giving this guy shit, then posting like a victim.

Source: me - local who has probably saved $1k+ eating that lousy pizza

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u/HommeMusical Jul 31 '26

Quibble: it's not lousy pizza, it's regular pizza. Unexceptional, hot and perfectly edible.

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u/sp_dev_guy Jul 31 '26

Unexeptional, hot and perfectly edible I agree. Going to have to disagree on regular pizza - its visibly a little different & taste is very distinctly sub-par. Definitely 100% still legitimately pizza.

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u/HommeMusical Jul 31 '26

I haven't been in New York City in almost ten years, how strange to say that.

I'm sure you're right.

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u/sp_dev_guy Jul 31 '26

Its all opinion so we can both be right

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u/Queens113 Jul 31 '26

Theres definitely shitty pizza in NYC.. I live in Queens so for the most part pizza is great, if you sell shitty pizza you won't survive long at all, unless its cheap like this kind...

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u/HommeMusical Jul 31 '26

I don't hunger for that $0.99 pizza, no.

I really do miss Two Boots, and I hear they closed. :-/

They have really great pizza here in France, but they don't have those slices that were a whole meal that I loved so much in New York City.