“Today I bought a cupcake without sprinkles. Diets are hard” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many items, such as ecards and T-shirts. “Today I bought cupcakes without sprinkles. Diets are hard” was cited on Twitter on April 13, 2012.
Twitter
Gary Davies
@captainspiky
One for the ladies. RT @PoorEvelyn: Today I bought cupcakes without sprinkles.
Diets are hard.
9:01 AM - 13 Apr 2012
Twitter
J.Mark Johns
@JMarkJohns
Deciding to eat healthier…just had a cupcake without the sprinkles..I’m so proud of myself #feelbetteralready
8:39 PM - 10 Jun 2012
Twitter
Hailey Dutschmann
@HaileyReineke
Today i bought cupcakes without sprinkles. Dieting is so hard!!
10:49 PM - 20 Jun 2012
Twitter
Mnar Alghafis
@MnarAlghafis
Today I bought a cupcake without the sprinkles, diets are hard
3:50 AM - 2 Jul 2012
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
By Grant Tucker
London: The Robson Press
2012
Pg. ?:
Today I bought cupcakes without sprinkles. Diets are hard.
Twitter
custo3000
@custo3000
today i bought cupcakes without the sprinkles….....dieting is hard people!!!
1:28 AM - 30 Jul 2013
Twitter
Zac Galifianakis
@ZacGalifianakis
Today I bought cupcakes without sprinkles. Diets are hard.
6:45 PM - 13 Oct 2013
Twitter
Eryck Bry
@EryckBry
Today I bought cupcakes without sprinkles…
Dieting is hard!
3:00 PM - 3 Dec 2013
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.
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