The Big Apple: “Have you seen the new fruitcake website?"/"Yes

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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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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Entry from March 19, 2018

“Have you seen the new fruitcake website?"/"Yes - it’s my currant favorite!”

A fruitcake website pun is:

Q: Have you seen the new fruitcake website?
A: Yes - it’s my currant favourite!

The joke has been cited in print since at least 2001.

Scatty—Internet Jokes (March 9, 2001)
Have you seen the new fruitcake website?
Yes - it’s my currant favourite!

Yahoo! Answers (April 13, 2008)
Its kids time folks are these funny?
(...)
Have you seen the new fruitcake website?
Yes - it’s my currant favourite!

XciteFun.net
STUPEFIED - Have you ever seen?
Post by suchitra » Nov 21, 2008
(...)
Have you seen the fruitcake website?
Yes - its my currant favorite!

Twitter
Digital Marketing 💡
@digitalbazar1
Have you seen the new fruitcake website?
Yes - it’s my currant favourite!
2:46 PM - 6 Aug 2010

Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Really Silly Jokes:
Humour for the whole family
By Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2011
Pg. ?:
Have you seen the new fruitcake website?
Yes– it’s my currant favourite!

Posted by Barry Popik
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