"Ate out of tin” sounds like “8 out of 10.” “Ate-out-of-tin homeless people are malnourished” was posted on Twitter by AstonishingSod on November 20, 2009, and again on Twitter on April 18, 2011. “If I had to rate these baked beans, I would give them an ate out of tin” was posted on Twitter by fr❄️st on August 29, 2016.
“How do you feel about canned food? Personally, I’d give it an ate out of tin” was posted on Reddit—Dadjokes on August 7, 2019.
Twitter
AstonishingSod
@AstonishingSod
Ate-out-of-tin homeless people are malnourished.
6:54 PM · Nov 20, 2009·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
AstonishingSod
@AstonishingSod
Ate-out-of-tin homeless people are malnourished.
3:44 PM · Apr 18, 2011·Twitter for iPad
Twitter
KRS!
@ChrissyKountze
Yay 8 Out of 10 Cats. Not to be confused with ate out of tin cans.
@jimmycarr laugh totally cracks me up.
4:05 PM · Aug 5, 2011·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
David Griffith
@theplaguedoc
Replying to @NyeBeverage
@NyeBeverage Just eaten baked beans.
8/10.
Ate out of tin.
8:09 PM · Dec 18, 2013·Twitter for Android
Twitter
fr❄️st
@Nick_Frost
If I had to rate these baked beans, I would give them an ate out of tin.
10:59 AM · Aug 29, 2016·TweetDeck
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/bslavens August 7, 2019
How do you feel about canned food?
Personally, I’d give it an ate out of tin.
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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