“Don’t make fun of fat people. They have enough on their plates” is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. “I don’t like folk making jokes about fat people, Don’t you think they have enough on their plate?” was cited in a 2008 newspaper.
“Could you guys quit joking about fat people please? Don’t you think they have enough on their plate?” was posted on Twitter on May 18, 2009.
7 July 2008, The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), “The Diary,” pg. 15:
“I don’t like folk making jokes about fat people, ” said the chap in the pub the other night.
“Don’t you think they have enough on their plate?”
Twitter
Jamie Badman
@badmanj
Could you guys quit joking about fat people please?
Don’t you think they have enough on their plate?
9:47 AM - 16 May 2009
Twitter
Barry Purcell
@solo1y
Leave fat people alone. They have enough on their plate.
1:55 AM - 22 Aug 2009
Twitter
Matt Angel
@Angelophile
Don’t mock fat people. They have enough on their plates already.
4:14 AM - 28 Sep 2009
Twitter
Nick Williams
@Nickolarz
wish every1 would stop calling fat people they have enough on their plates
10:14 AM - 17 Jan 2010
Twitter
Becky Watson
@BoRadley_
‘don’t tease fat people they have enough on their plates’—LMFAO
2:45 PM - 11 Mar 2010
Twitter
Tara Keane
@tarak795
Don’t make fun of fat people, they have enough on their plates…
12:35 AM - 3 Jun 2010
Reddit—Jokes
Reddit is too too mean to fat people. You guys really need to lay off.
submitted September 25, 2014 by ImQuibits
They already have enough on their plates.
Reddit—Jokes
Don’t make fun of fat people; they have enough on their plate.
submitted December 18, 2014 by TheTrooperKC
Google Books
Gangster Farm
By Marcus King
Published by author
2015
Pg. ?:
Always suited, he wore thin cotton T-shirts under his jacket instead of a shirt, generally emblazed with humorous references to his size such as Big Is Beautiful. I remember one that said: Don’t mock fat people, they have enough on their plate.
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.
Recent entries:
•“Laughter is the best medicine…except for treating diarrhea” (4/15)
•“Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you have diarrhea” (4/15)
•“If you know someone who is effortlessly happy in the morning, that is a demon. You’re friends with a demon” (4/15)
•Entry in progress—BP19 (4/15)
•Entry in progress—BP18 (4/15)
More new entries...
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.
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.
This site is edited by Barry Popik. These are the Cookies and Privacy Policies.