"Tequila: Helping people wake up in strangers’ beds since 1521” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images.
“Tequila! Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521!” was posted on Twitter by Chichi Igwe™ on September 16, 2015. “Tequila. Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521” was posted on Twitter by Aalok Gautam 🥰 on September 26, 2015. “Tequila. Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521” was posted on Twitter by K Tate on September 28, 2015. The saying probably originated on an image.
“Beer: Helping ugly people get laid since 1862,” “Beer: Helping white people dance since 1837” and “Bourbon: Making ice taste better since 1783” are similar sayings.
Twitter
Chichi Igwe™
@Chidimma306
Tequila! Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521! Butiiii let me not see u near my Dacofoam!
4:06 PM · Sep 16, 2015
Twitter
Aalok Gautam 🥰
@Grtitude
Tequila
Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
10:22 AM · Sep 26, 2015
Twitter
K Tate
@Kman8675
Tequila
Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
10:17 AM · Sep 28, 2015
Twitter
BuzzCric
@18plusjokes
Tequila
Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
@deeptwit1
10:22 PM · Sep 28, 2015
Google Books
Manifest Destin:
Memoirs of a Dreaming Woman
By B. K. Smith
Madison Avenue Publishers LLC
2018
Pg. ?:
The sign behind him read: TEQUILA. Helping people wake up in strangers’ beds since 1521.
Twitter
SOOTY ~ 😈🎬📼🎥📚
@sootygrunter79
Replying to @Brian6Goodnight @abhorrently_urs and 11 others
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tequila helping people wake up in strangers beds since 1521 😅
10:52 PM · Oct 27, 2020
Twitter
Suzan 🎶
@ForbesSuzan
Tequila… Helping people wake up in strangers beds since 1521.
11:52 PM · Jun 28, 2021
iFunny
MemesAndMen
30 jun 2021
Tequila. Helping people Wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
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JamesThompson796
9 nov 2021
Tequila. Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
Twitter
George E. Bitar™
@GeorgeBitar
Tequila: (/tɛˈkiːlə/
Helping people wake up in stranger’s beds since 1521.
3:51 PM · Dec 16, 2021
Twitter
Ms E
@TheItalianGirlE
Tequila hangover hit differently since 1521 😭 🥴
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
12:37 PM · Mar 19, 2022
iFunny
EnjoyMyPost
25 sep 2022
Tequila.
Helping people
wake up in
stranger’s beds
since 1521.
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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