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By Lauren Sarner
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March 25, 2024
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March 25, 2024, 2:22 p.m. ET
If you recognize, you recognize.
Jennifer Lopez continues to be getting ruthlessly mocked.
Final week, she obtained trolled for a clip from her movie “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.”
And now, Lopez’s Bronx go-to bodega order goes viral. Within the footage, she says that she’d ask for a ham and cheese on a roll, a small bag of chips and an orange drink — including in regards to the unspecified drink, “If you recognize, you recognize.”
Spoiler alert: No one actually does know.
Jennifer Lopez has a clip in her movie, “This Is Me . . . Now: A Love Story,” noting her bodega order, which is getting mocked. TikTok / @whoisadiv
TikToker Alex Duncan posted a video in reply, saying: “Bronx and the hood are drained.”
In a single video, TikToker Gianna Christine even went to a Bronx bodega — Adam’s Deli — and tried getting Lopez’s meal.
Christine filmed herself asking for “ham and cheese on a roll” and “small chips.” She then hunted for the “Thriller of the orange drink,” noting that Lopez mentioned, “If you recognize, you recognize,” however she added, “I don’t know! There’s 1,000,000 orange drinks! We have now Crush, we now have Sunkist.”
Jennifer Lopez continues to be Jenny From the Block . . . or is she? New Yorkers are doubting her authenticity. Dave Benett/Getty Photos for One&Solely
After consuming the meals, nonetheless, she concluded: “I used to be able to roast her, however that is really a ten out of 10 lunch.”
One other TikToker, Cara, chronicled her outing to go get the “J. Lo” order, and filmed herself in New York Metropolis, asking for “ham and cheese on a roll.”
Cara paused to notice her confusion with the beverage, noting, “I don’t know what orange drink she meant,” opting to get a Fanta.
She added about Lopez and the mysterious orange drink, “It has been a very very long time since she lived there, so possibly it’s like, discontinued.”
Lopez confused New Yorkers together with her “orange drink” order. TikTok / @whoisadiv
TikTokers are trolling J.Lo for her bodega order. Jennifer Lopez/Instagram
“This J-Lo discourse…I can’t, it’s so humorous,” Cara added.
One among her commenters defended the “Let’s Get Loud” singer, 54, writing, “Again within the day you’d get a sandwich combo. A small bag of chips and a drink. That order she has was tremendous widespread. Persons are simply being bizarre.”
“Right here’s the factor in regards to the ham and cheese sandwich that y’all non-New Yorkers will not be getting,” one other TikToker with the deal with WellWithTiffany mentioned in her personal video.
Pausing, she added, “I don’t know what she was speaking about with the orange drink.”
Lopez’s bodega sandwich order was complicated to New Yorkers. Stephen Yang
New Yorkers objected to Lopez’s bodega order and the thriller of the “orange drink.” TikTok / @whoisadiv
However she turned the subject again to the ham and cheese sandwich.
“Anyone that’s actually from New York — I’m from Brooklyn, she’s from the Bronx, no matter — is aware of that it’s not only a ham and cheese sandwich. It comes with a complete bunch of different stuff after it and it simply rolls off the tongue,” she defined.
“You don’t simply go in there [and] ask for a ham and cheese on a roll. They’re gonna take a look at you such as you’re loopy, they should know the remainder of it.”
WellWithTiffany mentioned that her private order is, “Ham and cheese, lettuce, tomato, salt, pepper, oil and vinegar, with mayo, on a hero, not a roll. It comes with all that stuff. You simply know that.”
One among her commenters mentioned, “Exaaactly like does she assume she has fooled us?”
Jennifer Lopez went for a stroll down reminiscence lane, nevertheless it didn’t go as deliberate, as naysayers doubt her. Golden Globes 2024 by way of Getty Photos
One of many NYC bodegas that TikTokers visited to check out the Jennifer Lopez order. Stefano Giovannini
TikToker Ryan posted a video noting that his non-American followers requested him to elucidate why so many New Yorkers are making enjoyable of the musician’s bodega order.
“What’s humorous about this isn’t a lot that it’s technically incorrect,” he mentioned.
“It’s that it’s generic to the purpose of unintentionally being actually comical. Like, this is able to be like, if somebody had been to ask you, ‘What’s your go-to quick meals order?’ And also you had been to say, ‘a cheeseburger, with a cola-flavored soda — if you recognize, you recognize — and a small order of fries.’ That’s what it appears like. You’ll be like, ‘What are you speaking about? What do you imply?’ ”
Going by the gadgets individually, Ryan mentioned in regards to the sandwich, “All proper, I’ll give it to her. Technically, sure, that’s one thing you may get at a bodega. Certain. I wouldn’t say it’s a very widespread order.”
J.Lo grew to become a sizzling subject of dialog amongst NYC’s TikTokers. ©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Assortment
However, he mentioned, “That’s really probably not what she was being requested, and I really feel like New Yorkers would know that. It’s not what you order, a lot as the way you order it. It’s all about customization at a bodega. So, it’s all about, ‘OK, you need ham and cheese on a roll. Would you like mustard? Pickles? Peppers and onions? Further cheese?’ ”
Then Ryan moved on to breaking down Lopez’s beverage order.
“She says, ‘With an orange drink, if you recognize, you recognize.’ I’m going to place my playing cards out on the desk proper right here: Jennifer, I don’t know. I don’t know what you’re speaking about.”
Ryan mused that it didn’t sound like an orange juice or soda, as a result of then she would have used these phrases.
NYC TikTokers broke down Lopez’s bodega order. TikTok / @whoisadiv
As for the small bag of chips, he mentioned, “The truth that she specifies ‘small’ is redundant, actually, due to course in a bodega, sure, you would get a full family-sized bag of chips, however that’s not what’s being requested. In fact, along with your order, it’s being assumed you’re getting an individual-sized bag of chips. Why not specify? Simply any chips?”
Ryan added that her order “so clearly smacks of one thing that was manufactured, or Googled, or one thing.”
“Nobody would ever order that,” he alleged. “Even when that’s technically what you’d order at a bodega, that’s not how you’d articulate it.”
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