[Ads-l] "Nothing Tastes as Good" Quote

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Sat May 6 16:12:52 UTC 2017


Not findable, but I do remember seeing this on a refrigerator magnet in 
a home I visited one time during my later undergraduate years, which 
would have put it after 1990 and before summer 1992.

Neal


On 5/6/2017 11:02 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> Charles Doyle, in private correspondence, has indicated to me that the saying "Nothing tastes as good as (being) skinny (thin) feels (looks)" dates back to the early 1990s.  Can Charlie or anyone else point me to the earliest findable occurrences of this quotation?
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> Fred Shapiro
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