Pickle jars are notoriously difficult to open. “You never know how strong you are.... until you’re home alone and have to open your own pickles” was cited on Twitter on October 6, 2013.
“You never know how strong you are, until you find yourself home alone with a box of chocolate tikoy. I’m not strong” was cited on Twitter on February 10, 2013, but the strength here referred to not eating the whole box.
Twitter
Mariani Caparas
@marianicaffe
You never know how strong you are, until you find yourself home alone with a box of chocolate tikoy. I’m not strong. #ChineseNewYear
5:55 AM - 10 Feb 2013
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Dazzledginger
@dazzledginger
You never know how strong you are....
until you’re home alone and have to open your own pickles
7:22 PM - 6 Oct 2013
Twitter
Dominique Jackson
@DeeDeeSpeaks
You never know how strong you are.
until you’re home alone and have to open a pickle jar.
5:45 PM - 5 Aug 2014
Twitter
Postmemes.com
@thepostmeme
You never know how strong you are….
until you’re home alone and have to open your own pickles
7:20 PM - 12 Oct 2014
Twitter
Abhishek Shetty
@abswitter
You never know how strong you are unless your are home alone and have to open a jar of pickle!
12:09 AM - 13 Oct 2014
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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