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From: https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/TANSTAAFL.html
Also cited on Wikipedia: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"...The earliest known occurrence of the full phrase, in the form "There ain’t no such thing as free lunch", appears as the punchline of a joke related in an article in the El Paso Herald-Post of June 27, 1938, entitled "Economics in Eight Words". ..."
The original references to free lunch were related to bars and taverns that had free food if drinks were purchased, which were apparently very common from the 1840's through the earliest 1930's.
For what it is worth...
Also cited on Wikipedia: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"...The earliest known occurrence of the full phrase, in the form "There ain’t no such thing as free lunch", appears as the punchline of a joke related in an article in the El Paso Herald-Post of June 27, 1938, entitled "Economics in Eight Words". ..."
The original references to free lunch were related to bars and taverns that had free food if drinks were purchased, which were apparently very common from the 1840's through the earliest 1930's.
For what it is worth...