The food phrase “you are what you eat” is taken from a phrase by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826): “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Many American eat fast food. A T-shirt slogan developed: “If we are what we eat, then I’m fast, cheap and easy.” The saying has been cited in print since at least 1998.
“You are what you eat. So don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake” is a related saying.
Wikipedia: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: “Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay.”
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Quotes
. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Zazzle.com
If we are what we eat then I’m FAST CHEAP & EASY
T-Shirt
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Google News Archive
29 April 1998, Cherokee County Herald (Centre, AL), pg. 12A, col. 3:
County citizens described as “fast, cheap and easy”
Health Council learns of eating habits
By TERRY DEAN, Staff Writer
We’ve heard of the old adage all of our lives, “we are what we eat.” If that is true, then most of the citizens of this country today are “fast, cheap and easy.” It’s not meant as an insult, but a statement of fact, according to health and nutrition officials.
Google Books
Just hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt
By Karen Scalf Linamen
Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell
1999
Pg. 158:
It said: “If we are what we eat, then I’m fast, cheap and easy.”
25, July 2000, Charlotte (NC) Observer, “Let’s read some letters taken from that wretched ol’ mail bag,” pg. 5E:
If we are what we eat, I’m fast, cheap and easy.
Buzzle.com
Women’s T-Shirt Sayings
By anisha
Published: 3/14/2002
If we are what we eat, I’m fast, cheap and easy.
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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