"Friends buy you (a) lunch. Best friends eat your lunch” is a jocular saying about friendship that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter on April 22, 2010.
“Good friends give you food. Best friends take your food” is a related saying.
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@iBIEBETTE
Friends buy you lunch, BEST friends eat your lunch
4:42 PM - 22 Apr 2010
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the lovestrings
@youaremysummer
#LetsBeHonest Friends buy you lunch, bestfriends eat your lunch )
5:02 AM - 3 May 2010
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Kayla Fabi
@kaylafabi
#LetsBeHonest Friends buy you lunch, bestfriends eat your lunch )
5:05 AM - 3 May 2010
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Krista ♥
@BieberTales
friends buy you lunch… bestfriends eat your lunch… hahaha
10:25 AM - 16 May 2010
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An Awesome Single
@AwesomelySingle
Friends buy you a lunch, best friends eat your lunch.
10:23 AM - 13 Feb 2011
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Aysha Reza
@ayshasmr
friends buy you a lunch, best friends eat your lunch.
7:07 AM - 18 Feb 2011
YouTube
Friends buy you lunch, best friends eat your lunch!
Hannah Ford
Published on Nov 15, 2013
Even though everyone is making their place in the world, we always come back together.
Fleet River Bakery
“Friends buy you lunch. Best friends eat your lunch!”
July 6, 2015
Me.Me
FRIENDS BUY YOU LUNCH BESTFRIENDS EAT YOUR LUNCH MEME
FRIENDS MEMES 🤖 FRIEND EAT BESTFRIEND BESTFRIENDS YOURS
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Odyssey
Mar 15, 2017 // At SUNY Plattsburgh
9 Things That Happen When You’re Too Close With Your Best Friends
“Friends buy you lunch, but best friends eat your lunch.”
Alyssa Bicchetti
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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