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.

Recent entries:
“Welcome to growing older. Where all the foods and drinks you’ve loved for years suddenly seem determined to destroy you” (4/17)
“Date someone who drinks with you instead of complaining that you drink” (4/17)
“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
Entry in progress—BP16 (4/17)
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Entry from August 25, 2008
“Harder than eating red beans with a pitchfork”

“Harder than eating red beans with a pitchfork” is said to be an East Texas saying for something that is very difficult to do. Nobody eats beans with a pitchfork—the beans slip through.
   
   
Austin (TX) American-Statesman
State Bar’s client fund provides limited recourse
By Robert Elder
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, June 23, 2008
(...)
“As the old East Texas saying goes, ‘Harder than eating red beans with a pitchfork,’ ” said Austin lawyer Charles “Chuck” Herring, author of a book on legal malpractice in Texas.

Posted by Barry Popik
Texas (Lone Star State Dictionary) • Monday, August 25, 2008 • Permalink


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