"This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat” is an anti-salad saying that has been printed on many images.
“!!!! RT ‘@Jay_FrickinLynn: This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat’” was posted on Twitter by Ladii Liisa on December 18, 2013. This is possibly the origin of the saying, but the original tweet no longer exists.
“Kale tastes like I’d rather be fat” and “This kale salad tastes like I’d rather be fat” are later variations of this saying.
Twitter
Ladii Liisa
@LiisaCruzinator
!!!! RT “@Jay_FrickinLynn: This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat.”
10:09 AM · Dec 18, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
S. Nelson
@Shara_HG
This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat
9:00 PM · Dec 25, 2013·Twitter for Android
Twitter
M.™
@boytoy1221
This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat.
4:39 PM · Jan 2, 2014·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Tiloni|Vercetti™
@orozco_tilo
This salad tastes like id rather be fat!
8:23 PM · Jan 2, 2014·Twitter for Android
Twitter
big sick
@Thisdoodboy
This salad tastes like ... Id rather be fat
5:58 AM · Jan 3, 2014·Twitter for Android
Twitter
LaQueefa™
@ItsLaQueefa
This salad tastes like id rather be fat
6:44 PM · Apr 28, 2014·Buffer
Twitter
Women’s Humor
@womenshumor
This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat.
6:35 PM · Sep 15, 2014·Hootsuite
Newspapers.com
17 April 2015, Dixon’s Independent Voice (Dixon, CA), “More Things for Thought,” pg. 5, col. 1:
This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat!
Google Books
Change of Hart
By M.E. Carter
Published by author
2018
Pg. ?:
It was a picture of a cat eating lettuce and it said, “This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat.”
Twitter
Michael P. Spradlin
@MSpradlinAuthor
This salad tastes like I’d rather be chubby.
12:14 PM · Mar 3, 2021·Twitter Web App
Facebook
Kelly Lee
March 7, 2021 at 9:12 PM ·
This salad tastes like
I’d rather be fat.
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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