A popular children’s riddle is:
Q: What did one plate say to another?
A: Lunch is on me!
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 1998. “Dinner is one me!” is a variant.
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Gleason Sackman
10/23/98
Today’s
Question: What did one plate say to the other plate?
(...)
Today’s
Answer: Lunch is on me!
28 May 1999, Aberdeen (SD) American News, Farm Forum, pg. 51F, col. 2:
“What did one plate say to the other plate?”
“Lunch is on me!”
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Funny Boy Takes on the Chitchatting Cheese from Chattanooga
By Dan Gutman
New York, NY: Hyperion Book CH
2000
Pg. 44:
“What did one plate say to the other?” I asked.
“What?”
“Lunch is on me.”
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November 2001, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 73, col. 2:
Jake: What did one plate say to the other plate?
Drake: What?
Jake: “Lunch is on me!” — Julia Lue Phang, Ooltewah, Tenn.
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Puns of the Weak 11/16/01
Stan Kegel
11/17/01
(...)
What did one plate say to the other?
‘Dinner’s on me!’ (Syman Hirsch)
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Jokelopedia:
The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest, Joke Book Ever
Edited by Ilana Weitzman
New York, NY: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
2006
Pg. 25:
What did one plate say to the other?
“Dinner’s on me. “
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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