“If tuna is chicken of the sea, does that make chicken tuna of the land?”

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. 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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Entry from April 24, 2021

“If tuna is chicken of the sea, does that make chicken tuna of the land?”

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Reddit—StonerThoughts
Posted by u/markp_93 March 7, 2019
Chicken is tuna of the land

Reddit—NoStpuiduestions
Posted by u/dab840 June 17, 2019
If tuna is chicken of the sea.. does that make chicken tuna of the land??

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Axette April 23, 2021
Chickens being the Tuna of the Land doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York City • Food/Drink • Saturday, April 24, 2021 • Permalink

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