Donna Macabre tweeted on August 11, 2015:
“If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘donuts’. I’ll turn around and look.”
“Donuts” is often replaced with other foods, such as “chocolate” and “pizza.” The food expression has been printed on many images.
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Donna Macabre
@Donna_McCoy
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘donuts’. I’ll turn around and look.
10:48 AM - 11 Aug 2015
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Brooke
@brookeolsenuk
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘bacon’. I’ll turn around and look.
8:44 PM - 11 Aug 2015
Peterhead, Scotland
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MR SUPERPIDGE
@superpidge
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘Donuts’ or ‘Vodka’, I’ll turn around and look
4:59 AM - 12 Aug 2015
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Mercy the scorpio
@Tweefey
If you can’t remember my name just say pizza I’ll turn around and look.
7:13 AM - 26 Aug 2015
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Raghvendra Rathore
@RagxsBalunda
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘free beer’. I’ll turn around and look...
5:07 AM - 18 Nov 2015
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.rev (牧師)
@stephenrea
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘tacos’. I’ll turn around and look.
6:08 AM - 18 Nov 2015
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D. Hutch
@LawlessPirate
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘food’. I’ll turn around and look.
4:29 AM - 7 Dec 2015
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Shejza
@ShejzaBerisha
If you can’t remember my name, just say ‘chocolate’. I’ll turn around and look.
3:58 PM - 13 Jan 2016
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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