“They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry, but it’s been over a week”

“Never go shopping when you’re hungry” is a common saying. A humorous variation was posted on Reddit—Jokes on December 6, 2016:
 
“They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry, but it’s been over a week now and every day I just get hungrier.”
 
The joke had been told before. “They say don’t go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, but it’s been 3 weeks now and I keep getting hungrier” was posted on Twitter on October 20, 2008.
 
 
Twitter
Ed Parker
‏@khead
They say don’t go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, but it’s been 3 weeks now and I keep getting hungrier.
7:36 PM - 20 Oct 2008
 
Twitter
Ryan Devlin
‏@TheDevlinShow
you aren’t supposed to go food shopping when you’re hungry, but I ran out of food two weeks ago. Every day I get hungrier and hungrier
12:01 AM - 6 Apr 2012
 
Twitter
FELON DEGENERES
‏@hateupton
They say that you’re not supposed to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry. But I ran out of food a week ago and each day I get hungrier…
5:26 PM - 8 Sep 2013
   
Reddit—Jokes
They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry
submitted December 6, 2016 by Nerfpaladins
but it’s been over a week now and every day I just get hungrier.
 
Twitter
Samantha Dowd
‏@samanthadowd935
They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry via /r/Jokes
but it’s been over a week now and every day I just get hungrier.
8:10 AM - 6 Dec 2016
 
Twitter
Living Sarcasm
‏@SarcasmLiving
They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry
but it’s been over a week now and every day I just get hungrier.
8:41 PM - 6 Dec 2016
 
Twitter
LaffGaff
‏@LaffGaff
They say never go food shopping when you’re hungry.
But it’s been over a week now and every day I just get hungrier.
#funny #jokes
4:12 PM - 16 Dec 2016