"Tragic Ally” posted on Twitter on March 26, 2016:
“A waffle is just a more considerate pancake. It’s like, here, let me hold that syrup for you in these convenient boxes.”
The words have been printed on several images.
Similar sayings include “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap,” “Waffles are just pancakes with abs,” “Waffles are just pancakes with bones” and “Waffles are just pancakes with tiny bowls for syrup.”
Twitter
Tragic Ally
@TragicAllyHere
A waffle is just a more considerate pancake. It’s like, here, let me hold that syrup for you in these convenient boxes.
11:31 AM - 22 Mar 2016
Twitter
Funny Things
@FunnyPictures14
A waffle is just a more considerate pancake. It’s like, here, let me hold that syrup for you in these convenient boxes.
7:33 AM - 26 Mar 2016
Twitter
Addison O’Donnell
@addisonodonnell
Overheard at Funk ‘n Waffles: “A waffle is a more considerate pancake. It’s like, ‘let me hold that syrup for you in my convenient boxes.’”
2:45 PM - 26 Mar 2016
BuzzFeed
27 Tweets About Breakfast That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud
“Toast is just soft bread that has been hurt before.”
posted on Jun. 6, 2016, at 12:01 p.m.
Julia Reinstein
BuzzFeed Staff
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MARIO 🎅🏻 @MarioPalush
A waffle is just a more considerate pancake. Its like, here, lemme hold that syrup for you in these convenient boxes
12:19 PM - 25 May 2016
Chicago (IL) Tribune
The 21 best tweets of the week—help us choose the best
By Eric Zorn
Change of Subject
JULY 26, 2016, 5:43 PM
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A waffle is just a more considerate pancake. It’s like, here, let me hold that syrup for you in these convenient boxes …@SarcasticAlly12
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.
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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