“That’s Hawaii roll” sounds a bit like “That’s how I roll.” A food joke was posted on Twitter on December 11, 2010:
“Spicy tuna and cucumber makizushi that’s Hawaii Roll.”
A more popular form of the joke was posted on Twitter on February 8, 2012:
“I’ve put some ham and pineapple in a crusty bap. That’s Hawaii Roll.”
Twitter
Jon
@we135b
Spicy tuna and cucumber makizushi that’s Hawaii Roll.
12:31 AM - 11 Dec 2010
Twitter
Andy Dutton
@Andy_Dutton
I’ve put some ham and pineapple in a crusty bap. That’s Hawaii Roll.
12:14 PM - 8 Feb 2012
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Jaime Christmas 🎓
@Pixie_Jaime
@HaleighGeorgiaa I read a tweet this morn an it said I just put some ham and pineapple in a bun….. That’s Hawaii roll lol
2:25 PM - 9 Feb 2012 from Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Twitter
Brad Ellis
@Braddd_Ellis_
I put Ham and pineapple in a bap today for lunch
Because that’s Hawaii roll..
1:31 AM - 10 Feb 2012 from East Devon, England
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FRIDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2012
Hawaii roll.
I put ham and pineapple into a bap today.
Because that’s Hawaii roll.
Posted by Lewis sigsworth at 04:47
Twitter
Oliver Newman
@oliverjnewman
For lunch today I just put some ham and pineapple in a bap. Because that’s Hawaii roll.
6:58 AM - 10 Feb 2012
Drowned in Sound
Just put some ham and some pineapple in a bap for lunch
IndieAndy_Jones
12:06, 1 March ‘12
that’s Hawaii roll
Twitter
Bad Joke Cat
@BadJokeCat
For lunch today, I’m having a bun filled with ham and pineapple. That’s Hawaii roll…..
7:30 AM - 19 Aug 2014
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
For lunch tomorrow I’m having a bun filled with ham and pineapple.
That’s Hawaii roll.
3:19 PM - 17 Jan 2017
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. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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