A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from May 25, 2021
“An Indian flatbread currency would be naan cents”

“Naan” (flatbread) has resulted in some “naan cents” (nonsense) jokes.
   
“I can’t believe the Indian restaurant would not accept my jar of change as payment. That’s naan-cents!!” was posted on Twitter by CraiggyZip on April 3, 2012. “I always try to keep some spare change on hand in case I need to buy Indian flatbread.” “What? That’s naan-cents!” was posted on Twitter by Joe Humpert on May 13, 2012. “delicious flatbread currency naan cents. #homonym #notheotherone #30rock” was posted on Twitter by Martin Van Os on February 13, 2013.
   
“My friend cuts up his Indian bread to look like coins. That’s a bunch of naan cents” was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on May 24, 2021.
   
   
Wikipedia: Naan
Naan (Persian: نان‎, romanized: nān, Hindi: नान, romanized: nān) is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread found in the cuisines mainly of Western Asia, South Asia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Caribbean.
       
Twitter
CraiggyZip
@CraiggyZip
@omgthatspunny I can’t believe the Indian restaurant would not accept my jar of change as payment. That’s naan-cents!!
8:10 PM · Apr 3, 2012·Echofon
   
Twitter
Joe Humpert
@misserjoe
“I always try to keep some spare change on hand in case I need to buy Indian flatbread.”
“What? That’s naan-cents!”
3:34 PM · May 13, 2012·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Martin Van Os
@VanOsM
@jordanMvanos delicious flatbread currency naan cents. #homonym #notheotherone #30rock
11:43 AM · Feb 13, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Mike Migdall
@ItsMigdallTime
sometimes i shoot indian flatbread coins out my mouth but then other times i’m just spoutin naan cents
8:33 PM · Mar 14, 2014·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Scott Vrable
@svrable
I was going to save up my pocket change to buy Indian bread, but then I realized that would be a lot of naan cents.
12:54 PM · Jun 11, 2014·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Allie
@reiley
DID YOU HEAR about the person who kept their change in a jar for buying whole-wheat flat bread? It was Total Naan Cents
4:38 PM · Jan 14, 2016·Twitter Web Client
       
Twitter
Andrew from Brooklyn
@andrewbecker95
I proposed that the U.S. Treasury use Indian bread to divide the dollar rather than coins but they said they’ve had it with my naan cents.
9:07 PM · May 19, 2016 from Brooklyn, NY·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Colin Jones
@trptcolin
I started saving my loose change to buy more Indian food. It’s naan cents.
2:27 PM · Feb 4, 2017·Buffer
   
Twitter
Bryce Gallagher
@Bryguy126
BREAKING NEWS: India to replace all forms of coinage with flat bread. Some may see this as revolutionary, however I consider it naan-cents.
1:19 PM · Mar 30, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Arnold Broseph
@4Clanz
Indian cuisine places should make little coin size naan bread and put it on the menu as Naan Cents.
8:52 AM · Jul 28, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
Action Dinosaur
@AkshunDinosaur
THIS TWEET IS COINS MADE OUT OF BREAD. IT IS NAAN CENTS.
12:13 PM · Jun 4, 2018·Buffer
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/paralyyzed July 7, 2018
I got billed extra at this Indian place for ordering a piece of bread
It was naan cents
   
Twitter
Samuel Torres
@no_tacos
Budget friendly Indian Restaurant Name Idea:
Naan-cents
3:30 PM · Jan 22, 2020 from Rancho Cucamonga, CA·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Dustin Growick
@DustinGrowick
Using all the coins in your piggy bank to buy Indian food effectively turns your savings into naan cents
9:52 AM · May 24, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/JoeFas May 24, 2021
My friend cuts up his Indian bread to look like coins.
That’s a bunch of naan cents.
COMMENTS
BaldingMonk
My friend does his with his Italian food. It’s penne.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityFood/Drink • Tuesday, May 25, 2021 • Permalink


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