A tomato riddle is:
Q: What’s yellow and square?
A: A tomato in disguise.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 2004. “What’s blue and looks like a tomato?”/“A red tomato in disguise” is a similar tomato riddle.
Google Books
1001 Cool School Yard Jokes
By Glen Singleton, Nicolas Brasch and Barbara Whiter
Heatherton, Victoria: Hinkler Books
2004
Pg. 76:
What’s yellow and square?
A tomato in disguise.
Twitter
Grossy McGross-gross
@upinyourbox
what’s yellow and square? ...a tomato in disguise
10:03 PM - 17 Dec 2009
Twitter
Sal
@Salim_A_
What is square and yellow?....a tomato in disguise 😊
6:23 AM - 4 Jan 2013
Teitter
Crap Jokes
@TheCrapJoker
Q) What’s yellow and square?
A) A tomato in disguise.
9:32 AM - 8 Aug 2015
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
What’s yellow and square?
A tomato in disguise.
3:38 PM - 30 Nov 2016
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. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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