Entry in progress—B.P.
“It’s amazing how potatoes give us chips, fries and vodka. Get your shit together, every other vegetable” is a saying that has been printed on many images.
Twitter
Keith
@SELLTEAM
Potatoes give us potato chips, French fries, and vodka. Other vegetables really need to take note and step up their game!
11:19 AM - 16 Jan 2014
Twitter
Anonymous
@Drakee_1
Potatoes give us fries, chips, and vodka. Get your shit together other vegetables!
12:06 AM - 17 Jan 2014
Twitter
kingjullian
@Julezdude
Amazing how the potato gives us french fries, mashed potatoes, potato chips, hash brown and even vodka. Your move, other vegetables!
12:52 AM - 17 Jan 2014
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Potatoes give us chips, fries, and vodka. I wonder when the other vegetables are going to step up their game.
submitted July 31, 2017 by [deleted]
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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