The Big Apple is said to have been the name of a club in New York which was popular enough for the name to be applied to the city.
As I mentioned on Saturday on Red and Rover – as Yorkshire Terriers were mentioned in the strip – I learned as a nine-year-old in 1976 (the USA’s bicentenary year) that New York had been called New Amsterdam by the original Dutch colonists but was renamed New York by the English as the English soldiers who captured it were led by the Duke of York.
Ole Frank Sinatra singing New York, New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEjq8ZoyXuQNew York has got it all. Wine women and song. (sports) YAHOO!PS: Bring money.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
What’s to even see in NYC according to Andy Capp?
seanfear over 1 year ago
NY could have done it easily, Flo…
Cornelius Noodleman over 1 year ago
I took a bite out of the big apple and saw half of a worm.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
“go ahead, bite the big apple, don’t mind the maggots!” -the Stones
Imagine over 1 year ago
If you’ve seen one Big Apple, you’ve seen them all.
snsurone76 over 1 year ago
There’s never been a bar that Capp didn’t like!!
ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago
And now Flo is the ‘apple of Andy’s eye’.
Calvinist1966 over 1 year ago
The Big Apple is said to have been the name of a club in New York which was popular enough for the name to be applied to the city.
As I mentioned on Saturday on Red and Rover – as Yorkshire Terriers were mentioned in the strip – I learned as a nine-year-old in 1976 (the USA’s bicentenary year) that New York had been called New Amsterdam by the original Dutch colonists but was renamed New York by the English as the English soldiers who captured it were led by the Duke of York.
Gandalf over 1 year ago
New York’s a pit. Better off staying in Hartlepool.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
An awful drinking club by the docks is probably better than the NYC Big Apple. Safer, too.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
So Flo is saying The Big Apple is Rotten to the Core? Doublespeak? Could be.
Frank Burns Eats Worms over 1 year ago
The Big Apple drinking club is rotten to the core.
wongo over 1 year ago
New York IS that awful drinking club by the docks!
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
You have to be careful what you ask Andy to do…..
ladykat over 1 year ago
You asked for it, Flo.
CorkLock over 1 year ago
Ole Frank Sinatra singing New York, New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEjq8ZoyXuQNew York has got it all. Wine women and song. (sports) YAHOO!PS: Bring money.
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
You got the better deal, and it only cost you the price of his pints.
Godfreydaniel over 1 year ago
Was Andy’s only time in his life not in the UK back when he was in WW II?
Number Three over 1 year ago
Come on now, Florrie. Do you know who you’re married to? The closest you’ll ever get to The Big Apple is by looking on Google Maps.
xxx
rshive over 1 year ago
There’s cheap. There’s really cheap. And there’s Andy.
T... over 1 year ago
Brilliant, funny…
tad1 over 1 year ago
Just as well, Flo. New York is an awful place to visit. Just ask King Kong.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 1 year ago
Not sure her “Big Apple” wasn’t the better deal.