The Big Apple: “The menu had many different kinds of food on it. So I asked, ‘Can I have a clean one?‘“

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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.

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Entry from February 28, 2018

“The menu had many different kinds of food on it. So I asked, ‘Can I have a clean one?‘“

A joke about the food quite literally “on the menu” was posted on Sickipedia on August 26, 2017:

“The menu had many different kinds of food on it. ‘Can I have a clean one?’ I asked.”

“Diner: Is soup on the menu? Waiter: No, I wiped it off” is a similar menu joke. “A new restaurant in my neighborhood offers a tasting menu, but it just tasted like paper to me” is a related joke.

Sickipedia
The menu had many different kinds of food on it.
“Can I have a clean one?” I asked.
Joke Submited by Stallion in Other - Food and Drink · 26 August 2017 09:30 PM

Twitter
Bob Kostic‏
@causticbob
The menu had many different kinds of food on it.
“Can I have a clean one?” I asked.
6:57 AM - 27 Aug 2017

Twitter
Tim O’Neill‏
@dezignguy
The menu had many different kinds of food on it.
“Can I have a clean one?” I asked.
8:09 AM - 27 Aug 2017

Twitter
Paul Vella‏
@Paulvella69Paul
The menu had many different kinds of food on it.
“Can I have a clean one?” I asked.
10:24 AM - 27 Aug 2017

Reddit—Cleanjokes
The menu had many different kinds of food on it… (self.cleanjokes)
submitted March 1, 2018 by madazzahatter
So I asked, “Can I have a clean one?”

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