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

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Entry from December 27, 2017
“What did the intergalactic cookie say to the other intergalactic cookie?”/“Beam me up biscotti.”

The Star Trek television series and movies include an engineer character named Scott (Scotty), to whom the other characters often request to “beam” them up (transport them). “Beam me up, Scotty” is a catchphrase, although it was not actually spoken in full in any Star Trek television episode or film.
 
“Beam me up biscotti” is an Italian food version that has been cited in print since at least 1993 and has been printed on an image. A riddle was posted on Reddit—Dad Jokes on December 28, 2017:
   
Q: What did the intergalactic cookie say to the other intergalactic cookie?
A: Beam me up biscotti.

   
       
Wikipedia: Biscotti
Biscotti (/bɪˈskɒti/; Italian pronunciation: [bisˈkɔtti]; English: twice-cooked), known also as cantuccini, are Italian almond biscuits (cookies) that originated in the city of Prato. They are twice-baked, oblong-shaped, dry, crunchy, and dipped in a drink, traditionally Vin Santo.
 
Wikipedia: Beam me up, Scotty
“Beam me up, Scotty” is a catchphrase that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his chief engineer, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, when he needs to be transported back to the Starship Enterprise.
 
Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series and films, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film.
 
Wikipedia: Scotty (Star Trek)
Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen “Scotty” Scott is a fictional character in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. First portrayed by James Doohan in the original Star Trek series, Scotty also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Relics”, and in numerous books, comics, and video games.   
         
13 October 1993, Washington (DC) Post, “They’re Going (Again) for the Pillsbury Dough” by Mary Estrada, pg. E14:
“We’ve got a new name for this—Beam Me Up Biscotti.’”
           
Google Groups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Things you’d like to hear/see
Bill Bader
10/27/94
(...)
I.  Scene: the Bridge
 
Captain Kirk has noticed that his morning snack is incomplete:  only the coffee has been served.  He would like some Italian cookies.
 
Kirk: Beam me up biscotti!
 
27 March 1996, The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), “A la Carte” by Tim Fish, pg. D1:
Beam me up biscotti
If you’ve ever bitten into a slender slab of granite masquerading as biscotti, you know why those imported cookies have been slow to take off in the States.
 
20 October 1998, Daily News (New York, NY), “Beam Me Up, Biscotti!” by Lenore Skenazy, pg. 46:
Whether Mars or hunger attacks, transport yourself to the Alien Cafe. Tucked into a corner of the new Abracadabra Super Store on 21st St., this little soda fountain/lunch counter is decorated with aliens from every corner of the universe, particularly Hollywood.
 
Google Books
Alien$:
We’re Only Here for the Money

By Richard Bliss Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.
2003    
Pg. 15:
Croissants of complexity, beam me up Biscotti to the next level of parenthood.
         
Twitter 
Tiger Windwalker‏
@coyotedolphin
@CeriseLight Q. What did Captain Kirk say to Spock who was visiting an Italian deli on Earth? A. “Beam me up biScotti!”
12:14 PM - 1 Jul 2011
 
Twitter 
Nisha Rana Lowther‏
@rana_way
What did the Star Trek crew say when they walked into an Italian bakery?
Beam me up biscotti! #ClassicJokeTuesday
4:55 PM - 23 Oct 2012
 
Twitter
Christopher Cushing ‏
@ChristopherCush
What did Captain Kirk say to his First Engineering Cookie?... Beam me up Biscotti!
8:51 PM - 10 Feb 2013
 
Twitter
PieceLove&Chocolate‏
@PieceLoveChoco
What did Dr. Spock say on the Italian Starship Enterprise?
“Beam me up, Biscotti.”
WE. ARE. A. RIOT…. http://fb.me/SaOJznsM
1:21 PM - 17 Aug 2013
 
Twitter
jeffdsilva‏
@jeffdsilva
whenever I hear the word “biscotti” I say “beam me up Biscotti” and people say I’m the funniest barista at the Starbucks I work at.
11:12 AM - 6 Oct 2014
 
Twitter
Daniel Peake‏
@danielpeake
What is Star Treks favourite biscuit? Beam-Me-Up Biscotti.
2:05 PM - 12 Aug 2015
 
Twitter
Jim Martin‏
@jimartin12
Beam me up Biscotti: Teleportation through Bread
11:28 PM - 25 Nov 2015
 
Twitter
Big Galoot‏
@skweatherall
“Beam me up, Biscotti”. That joke was one of the main reasons Bill Shatner and James Doohan didn’t go to Starbucks together much.. #StarTrek
3:46 PM - 23 Aug 2016
   
Twitter
Paul McHugh‏
@WriterMcHugh
Q: What did James T. Kirk say, when he flew the Enterprise above Italy?
A: Beam me up biscotti…
9:11 AM - 26 Apr 2017
 
Reddit—Dad Jokes
What did the intergalactic cookie say to the other intergalactic cookie? (self.dadjokes)
submitted December 28, 2017 by BeardedBinder
Beam me up biscotti.
 
Twitter
keepingitcreel‏
@Keepingitcreel
What did the intergalactic cookie say to the other intergalactic cookie? Beam me up biscotti.
10:47 AM - 28 Dec 2017

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