“Life is just a bowl of cherries” is an old saying. A soup version is:
“Life is like a bowl of soup. You only get blown if you are hot.”
The jocular saying has been printed on T-shirts and ecards. The saying possibly originated as a Demotivational poster. “Life is like a bowl of soup.. You only get blown if your hot” was cited on Twitter on May 31, 2011.
Twitter
Sinoeth Palacios
@Sinoeth
Life is like a bowl of soup.. You only get blown if your hot.
5:55 AM - 31 May 2011
Twitter
Breakups/Makeups
@MAKEUP_SEX
Life is like a bowl of soup.. You only get blown if your hot
10:31 AM - 31 May 2011
Twitter
KiD_RED
@dieqoAmazin
Life is like a bowl of soup.. You only get blown if you’re hot.
10:30 PM - 31 May 2011
Google Books
Top Twat Twit Tosh
By Paul Bowden
Published by author
July 21, 2011
Pg. ?:
Life is like a bowl of soup - you only get blown if you’re hot!
reddit—Shower Thoughts
Life is like a bowl of soup; you only get blown if you’re hot.
submitted October 25, 2014 by CTGadham2000
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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