A saying about the smell of cooked food was popularized on Reddit—Shower Thughts on August 27, 2017:
“Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell great.”
Reddit—Shower Thughts
Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell great.
submitted August 27, 2017 by AsslessCraps
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RandomFun!
@RandomFun_
Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell great.
1:10 PM - 27 Aug 2017
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Shower Thoughts
@atshower
Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell great.
1:14 PM - 27 Aug 2017
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Kiera Hahn
@KieraHahn3
Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell great.
1:49 PM - 27 Aug 2017
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Cailyn
@CailynGoldy
just-shower-thoughts: Cooked food smells great, but if a person smells like cooked food they don’t smell… https://tmblr.co/Zjl2qd2PNpq_p
2:26 PM - 27 Aug 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, 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.
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