“Wake up and smell the coffee” is a saying that has been cited in print since at least 1943. “Breakfast tacos” is a specialty of Austin, Texas.
“Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos!! Good morning #Austin” was posted on Twitter by Lord Meraki on March 22, 2013. “WAKE UP AND SMELL THE BREAKFAST TACOS” was posted on Twitter by El Arroyo (an Austin restaurant that featured this on its sign) on February 17, 2020.
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Lord Meraki
@LordMeraki
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos!! Good morning #Austin
12:20 PM · Mar 22, 2013·Facebook
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ʍ︎ᴵᴳᵁᴱᴸ
@m13ac
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos....
12:52 PM · Mar 22, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
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Matt Araiza
@MattAraiza
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos
11:28 AM · Apr 5, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
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Asma
@Asma_Hinton
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos!
9:55 AM · Jun 17, 2015·Twitter Web Client
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Tegan
@tegan_chan
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos!
8:54 AM · Jun 17, 2015·Twitter Web Client
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Lazy Smurf
@veganLazySmurf
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos #tacocleanse #austin @ Maria’s Taco Xpress https://instagram.com/p/BASDskUReSe/
9:54 AM · Jan 8, 2016·Instagram
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Cadillac Bar Houston
June 22, 2019 ·
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos! Saturday brunch is calling your name 🌮
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El Arroyo
@ElArroyo_ATX
I gladly will, thank you. I’ll have seven bean and cheese tacos, please. #ElArroyoSign #ElArroyoATX
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE BREAKFAST TACOS
12:44 PM · Feb 17, 2020·Microsoft Power
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UH Foodie
February 18, 2020 ·
Wake up and smell the breakfast tacos!
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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