The Big Apple: “Nutrition facts are useless. Just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this”

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.

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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Entry from July 22, 2017

“Nutrition facts are useless. Just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this”

"Nutrition facts are useless. Just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this” is a saying that has been printed on an image. The saying was posted on Twitter by Women’s Humor‏ on January 18, 2012.

Twitter
Women’s Humor‏
@WomensHumor
Nutrition facts are useless, just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this.
2:05 PM - 18 Jan 2012

Twitter
The Ramadelinas‏
@ramadelinas
Ha! RT @WomensHumor: Nutrition facts are useless, just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this.
2:05 PM - 18 Jan 2012

Twitter
Julia Graf‏
@hellojuliagraf
Haha!! Treadmill-meter on food? RT @WomensHumor: Nutrition facts are useless, just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this.
2:05 PM - 18 Jan 2012

Dee’s Dirt
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
About food, hopefully palatable
(...)
Nutrition facts are useless, just show me how long I have to be at the gym if I eat this.” - Unknown

Twitter
Picture Quotes‏
@iPictureQuote
Nutrition facts are useless,
just show me how long I have to
be at the gym if I eat this.
#PictureQuotes
6:00 PM - 18 Jun 2015

Posted by Barry Popik
New York City • Exercise/Running/Health Clubs • Saturday, July 22, 2017 • Permalink