"Recipes are like online dating… They never end up looking like the picture!” is a jocular saying that has been cited in print since at least 2010. “Recipes are like online dates...they never look like the picture” was cited on Twitter on July 2, 2015.
“Afraid of not getting what you ordered with online shopping? Try online dating!” is another saying about online dating.
Sweet love Alabama
COOKING UP A DATE
Posted on November 18, 2010 by sweetlovealabama
Recipes are like online dating… They never end up looking like the picture!
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Melanie J Zakimi
@MelanieJZakimi
Recipes are like online dating, they never look like the picture, lol…
1:29 AM - 7 Jun 2011
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
By Grant Tucker
London: The Robson Press
2012
Pg. ?:
Recipes are like online dating websites. They never end up looking like the picture.
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Katie Agnew
@Katiee_Agnew
Recipes are like online dating. They never look like the picture. As you can tell my coffee didn’t turn out right
10:14 PM - 18 Apr 2012
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Kailash
@kresilient
Recipes are like online dating websites. They never end up looking like the picture. (via @funnyoneliners)
7:17 AM - 30 May 2012
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FunnyOneLiners
@Funnyoneliners
Recipes are like online dates...they never look like the picture.
6:04 AM - 2 Jul 2015
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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