“Home is where the heart is” is an old saying. “Home is where the free food is” is a jocular variation.
“Home is where the free food is…ask any stray cat” was cited in 2007. “College students: Home is where the free food is” was cited on Twitter on October 8, 2015.
Twitter
Ugi
@rLfNowhere
@NYdelight home is where the free food is.
6:59 PM - 1 Jul 2009
Twitter
ME
@justacloserriot
Homeward bound! I heard home is where the heart is. I also heard home is where the free food is.
6:35 PM - 14 Oct 2009
Twitter
Anthony Sheedy
@anthonysheedy
Home is where the free food is.
1:58 PM - 14 Mar 2010
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The Lakeview Quotes (Page Updated: June 21, 2010)
The following quotations are some of thoughts I shared with the staff of Lakeview Manor over my last five years there.
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Other Thoughts
Home is where the free food is… ask any stray cat. (9-Mar-2007)
Tony Lives Here
Yea I am on this DNA thing again, sort of…
Posted on December 28, 2010
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Pigeons have markers encoded in their DNA indicating where they were born and they stay there. They are not into this migration business. As a kid I raised pigeons, we had some for racing and some for eating. Home is where the free food is.
Funny Status
Home is where the free food is.
May 26. 2011
Funny Status
Home is where the free food is.
October 23, 2013
Twitter
Drake O’Bryant ⚾️
@DrakeD27
College students: Home is where the free food is.
8:01 PM - 8 Oct 2015
Oklahoma, USA
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.
Recent entries:
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t want to listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•“Took my own lunch to work and didn’t buy a coffee today so I should be able to afford to buy a house any day now” (5/8)
•“Unless you’re music, I don’t wanna listen to you in the morning” (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP24 (5/8)
•Entry in progress—BP23 (5/8)
More new entries...
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.
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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