Old SPice is the name of an American brand of male grooming products> It’s not a spice, but there’s a “yo mama” insult joke:
“Yo mama is so dumb, she uses Old Spice for cooking.”
“She cooks with Old Spice” was cited in print in 1997.
Wikipedia: Old Spice
Old Spice is an American brand of male grooming products. It is manufactured by Procter & Gamble, which acquired the brand in 1990 from Shulton, Inc. Shulton, Inc., the original producer of Old Spice, was founded in 1934 by William Lightfoot Schultz.
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Your Mother’s so STUPID ....
The Migrant
12/14/97
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she cooks with Old Spice.
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Phydeaux
7/21/98
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Yo mama’s so stupid, she cooks with Old Spice.
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9/3/01
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Hmm… I’ve been accused of being stupid cuz I once used old spice for cooking…
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Etaoin Shrdlu
12/12/03
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Lamie, you’re so stupid, you uses Old Spice for cooking
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Mel’s mammy is so stupid
GP
5/23/05
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Mel’s mammy is so stupid, she uses Old Spice for cooking.
Google Books
The Art of Telling Great Jokes & Being Funny!
By Craig Kirsner
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Outstanding Books
2007
Pg. 136:
Yo mama’s so stupid, she uses Old Spice for cooking.
Google Books
Man Walks into a Bar:
Over 6,000 of the Most Hilarious Jokes, Funniest Insults and Gut-Busting One-Liners
By Stephen Arnott, Mike Haskins
Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press
2007
Pg. 424:
Yo momma’s so stupid, she cooks with Old Spice.
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Insults
By Geoff Tibballs
New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Pub.
2007
Pg. ?:
Yo Mama’s so stupid she cooks with Old Spice.
Twitter
tayler.
@murdertaylerr
Yo mama is so stupid that she uses old spice for cooking(:
9:36 PM - 7 Feb 2010
YouTube
YO MAMA SO STUPID! Old Spice
Yo Mama
Published on May 1, 2015
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@StickOrTruth
Yo momma’s so dumb she uses Old Spice for cooking #jokes
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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.
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