Alphabet soup has been the subject of many puns. “Just puked up the alphabet soup I ate for dinner. Took the words right out of my mouth” was posted on Twitter on May 22, 2010. “I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup. Took the words right out of my mouth” was posted on Twitter on August 31, 2011.
The joke has been printed on many images.
Twitter
Jared G.
@Rob_Zincone
Just puked up the alphabet soup I ate for dinner. Took the words right out of my mouth.
7:52 PM - 22 May 2010
Twitter
Lee
@TylerDeAngelo
#nowplaying Meatloaf-you took the words right out of my mouth.. Now give me back my alphabet soup
7:06 AM - 2 Nov 2010
Twitter
DUKECITY117
@jeremiahlucero1
I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
2:12 PM - 31 Aug 2011
Twitter
Nick Dominguez
@BigPapiND
I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup. Took the words right out of my mouth.
2:23 PM - 31 Aug 2011
Twitter
Festival Freak
@FestivalFreak1
I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup. Took the words right out of my mouth.
3:21 PM - 31 Aug 2011
Facebook
Jewson Oban
August 14, 2017 ·
I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup.
Took the words right out of my mouth…..
Reddit—Jokes
I just sneezed while eating alphabet soup…
submitted October 25, 2017 by jondough008
...took the words right out of my mouth.
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. 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.
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