When did people start saying, "pulled pork" and "pull her file?"?

It happened around the same time ‘by accident’ somehow became ‘on accident’, and the birth of the expression “to conversate” with someone.

A lot of young people intentionally mispronounce ‘ask’ as ‘axx’, I guess because they think it makes them sound more ‘street’.....

Never heard of them. What are they supposed to mean?

People have been saying “pulled pork” at sandwich counters (at least, sandwich counters not in the Middle East) for many years.

As for “pulling her file”, that probably started around the 1970s, I think, when women started to take on roles that involved someone building dossiers on them. Until then it was always “pull his file”.

To make pulled pork, you cook the meat until you can pull it apart into strips and then add the sauce. I believe it originated in the West Indies.
You ‘pull a file’ comes from use of a file cabinet. You pull the drawer open and then pull the file out of the cabinet. The expression has been around since the invention of file cabinets in the business world

Pulled pork has been around a long time, especially in the Southern US. Anywhere they have barbeque (or barbecue) We always used pull me the file on X when we needed the paper record. Maybe it’ll disappear in a bit with all the technology.

“Pulling a file” is an expression that has been around for at least since the fifties, if not earlier. Same with “Pulled Pork”.

Pulled pork has become common because of it spreading out of the South now that TV food shows search for regional foods, and those foods are served in restaurants.

Pulling a file has been common in bureaucratic companies like insurance companies or places with a large number of accounts or customers. “Go pull the Throckmorton file” so that an executive can review the customers business.

Are you trying to pull our leg?

The expression “pulled pork” goes back to the fifties ??! I wonder why I’ve only begun hearing it for a couple of years?

@Aster Where do you live? It’s a regional thing.

@Aster Reread what @zenvelo says.

“Pulling a file” has been around since the fifties.

“Pulled pork” is a regional dish that is gaining in national popularity so you are hearing it more.

I’ve known both these phrases for all of my life, so it definitely isn’t a recent development. I can understand that pulled pork might be regional, but pulling a file would be the same everywhere, wouldn’t it?