The struggle to “put food on the table” usually refers to the struggle to make enough money to afford to buy food—and not physically putting food on the table. A riddle on the expression was posted on Twitter on January 3, 2014:
Q: Why do midgets make shit parents?
A: Because they can’t put food on the table.
Twitter
Plug
@Ollieeepp
Why do midgets make shit parents?
Because they can’t put food on the table.
4:38 PM - 3 Jun 2014
Twitter
Ben
@IHMU4EVA
Why do midgets make shit parents?...... Because they can’t put food on the table.
5:14 PM - 3 Jun 2014
Twitter
Fresh Stand Up
@FreshStandUp
Why do midgets make shit parents?Because they can’t put food on the table. http://bit.ly/1naDXlw via @sickipedia
5:20 PM - 3 Jun 2014
Facebook
Bad Joke Friday with Steve Ring & Gary Scott
June 6, 2014 ·
Why do midgets make rubbish parents?
Because they struggle to put food on the table.
#badjokefriday
Twitter
black is wack
@king_rayman
Why do midgets make bad parents?
Because they struggle to put food on the table
6:27 PM - 6 Jun 2014
Reddit—Jokes
Why do midgets make bad parents?
submitted December 4, 2015 by littlelovely28
Cause they struggle to put food on the table
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
My mum and dad are midgets.
All my life they’ve had trouble putting food on the table.
3:39 PM - 19 Nov 2017
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, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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