“I might just take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right” (a pun on “play your cards right”) is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on several images. “Play your carbs right” has been cited in print since at least the 1990s. “If you play your carbs right you will be eating pizza tonight” was posted on Twitter on July 23, 2015.
“Might just take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right” was posted on Twitter on September 21, 2015.
18 April 1995, USA Today (McLean, VA), “How movers and shakers stay forever young” by Jeannie Williams, pg. 2D:
His secret is to make exercise fun, to do sports you never thought you could, and if you play your carbs right, you can have your burritos and Italian bread (no butter) too.
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Kim Leyva
@KimLeyva
If you play your carbs right
you will be eating pizza tonight
9:17 PM - 23 Jul 2015 from California, USA
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Reem
@ReemItani
Might just take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right
4:05 AM - 21 Sep 2015
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Zach Deal
@zachdeal90
I might just take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right.
2:14 PM - 6 Oct 2015
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whiskey wiles
@Robsqueeze
Might take you up for pizza if you play your carbs right 😉
4:46 PM - 10 Oct 2015
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Erin Calderon
@CaringIsShERINg
I might just take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right😉
10:56 PM - 10 Oct 2015 from Glassboro, NJ
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Olivia Yokely
@its0Y0
| I just might take you out for pizza if you play your carbs right | 🍕😉… https://instagram.com/p/8rWLXfCRm0XhAOmct90rfPjm_QhKlZwOmKdjI0/ …
10:13 PM - 11 Oct 2015
Sizzle
MIGHT JUST TAKE YOU OUT FOR PIZZA IF YOU PLAY YOUR CARBS RIGHT 😏 @DOYOUEVEN 👈🏼 FREE SHIPPING ON ALL NATIONAL ORDERS 🌎 MEME
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Atwoods Pizza
December 13, 2016 ·
Play your “carbs” right and be sure to grab a slice for lunch today. #MidtownATL #Pizza
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.
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