The stork might bring babies, but what brings corn? There’s a Thanksgiving riddle:
Q: Where did the first corn come from?
A: The stalk brought it.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 1941.
2 November 1941, The Sunday Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), pg. 6, col. 3:
Dear Granny: Where does all the corn come from?—Clem Bugbee, Walrus, Minn.
Answer: The stalk brought it.
30 November 1980, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), “Turning Over a New Leaf” by Mabel C. Simmons, sec. 3, pg. 10, col. 3:
Molly: Where did that baby ear of corn come from?
BIlly: The stalk brought it.
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August 1983, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 65, col. 2:
Colonel Cobb: Where did the first corn come from?
Pop Corn: The stalk brought it. — Brian Ballone, Saddle Brook, N.J.
27 September 1989, Rockford (IL) Register-Star, “Mini-Chefs,” pg. 4D, col. 6:
Where did the baby ear of corn come from?
Answer: The stalk brought it.
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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.
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