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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Entry from May 13, 2018
“This chocolate just went past me at 120 mph!! I think it was a Ferrari Rocher”

“Ferrari Rocher” is a jocular combination of Ferrari (an Italian luxury sports car) and Ferrero Rocher (a chocolate and hazelnut confectionery). “On the motorway, a chocolate zoomed past. It was a Ferrari Rocher” was posted on Twitter on January 20, 2011. “A chocolate has just passed me at 100mph. It was obviously a Ferrari Rocher” was posted on Twitter on February 17, 2011.
   
“What do you call a chocolate going 100mph…..Ferrari-Rocher! Courtesy of Mr Tim Vine @RealTimVine” was posted on Twitter on May 14, 2012. The joke probably originated with—or at least was popularized by—English comedian Tim Vine.
 
     
Wikipedia: Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher (French pronunciation: ​[ʁɔʃe]) is a chocolate and hazelnut confectionery produced by the Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA.
   
Wikipedia: Ferrari
Ferrari N.V. (pronounced [ferˈrari]) is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.
 
Wikipedia: Tim Vine
Timothy Mark “Tim” Vine (born 4 March 1967) is an English writer, actor, comedian and presenter, known for his quick-fire puns and his role on the BBC series Not Going Out until his departure in 2012. He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy and has written several joke books. In 2010 and 2014, Vine won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His winning jokes were: “I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again” and “I decided to sell my Hoover ... well it was just collecting dust.” He was the runner up in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
         
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Joe Cushnan
@JoeCushnan
Jokes - 1. On the motorway, a chocolate zoomed past. It was a Ferrari Rocher. 2. One-armed butlers can take it but they can’t dish it out.
10:02 AM - 20 Jan 2011
 
Twitter
James Kinsley
@mrjameskinsley
What’s the fastest chocolate? A Ferrari Rocher.
9:19 AM - 29 Jan 2011
   
Twitter
Kerry Downes
@Kerry_ohyes
A chocolate has just passed me at 100mph. It was obviously a Ferrari Rocher.
5:51 PM - 17 Feb 2011
 
Twitter
Abang Mat
@AyaqJagung
This chocolate went past at 200 km/h. It was a Ferrari Rocher 😊
4:18 AM - 3 Mar 2011
 
12 March 2011, The Sun (London, UK), “Have a Laugh!,” pg. 25:
WHAT do you call a chocolate travelling at 100mph?
A Ferrari Rocher.
 
Twitter
Philip Beckett
@norwich_broker
What do you call a chocolate travelling at 100 mph? - A Ferrari Rocher
6:28 AM - 12 Mar 2011
   
Twitter
Sam Mohammed
@SamualMohammed
What do you call a chocolate going 100mph…..........................................Ferrari-Rocher! Courtesy of Mr Tim Vine @RealTimVine
5:27 PM - 14 May 2012
 
25 June 2016, The Times (London, UK), “Today’s picks The Tim Vine Chat” by John Bungey, pg. 46:
The Tim Vine Chat Show Radio 4, 6.30pm Another comedic high-wire act from the wizard of the one-liner. Tim Vine, right, starts with a splattering of egg jokes: “My lawn is chickenproof. It’s impeccable”; “I can’t find my eggs; you probably mislaid them.” If such banter reduces you to a hysterical puddle, there is more, lots more: “When I was out driving I was overtaken by a chocolate at 100mph. It was Ferrari Rocher.”
 
Reddit—Jokes
What do you call a chocolate travelling at 100mph?
submitted September 17, 2016 by the-nine-to-fiver
A ferrari rocher.
 
Twitter
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The Dad Joke Man
😉
@DadJokeMan
This chocolate just went past me at 120 MPH !! I think it was a Ferrari Rocher #mondaymirth
11:07 PM - 13 May 2018

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