A fruit riddle is:
   
Q: What do you get hanging from apple trees?
A: Sore arms.
 
The joke is that the answer is a person hanging from the tree, not a fruit. Other fruits besides “apple” have been used in the joke. “Q - What do you get hanging from banana trees? A - Sore arms” was posted on the newsgroup alt.tasteless.jokes on August 6, 1993.
 
 
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Q - What do you get hanging from banana trees?
A - Sore arms
not tasteless but rather stupid all the same.
 
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.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  (What do you get hanging from apple trees?)
   
14 October 2000, The Guardian (London, UK), “Tell Us a Joke,” Weekend sec., pg. 94, col. 5:   
Ruth Joy Palmer, six, from Edinburgh
‘Q: What do you get hanging from banana trees?
A: Sore arms.’
   
Google Books
Over 1500 Fantastic Jokes
By Guy Campbell and Paul Moran
London, UK: Dean
2002
Pg. 208:
Biology Teacher: Barney, what do you get hanging from Horse Chestnut trees?
Barney: Sore arms!
   
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@thisisposh
Replying to @FregGraser
@GregtheFraser Alreet Greggles? What do you get hanging from Pear trees? Sore Arms.
12:04 PM - 12 Oct 2009
   
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@WSIGeneva
John Berry’s joke of the day - What do you get hanging from orange trees? Find out the answer this afternoon…. http://bit.ly/aZkpUO
5:02 AM - 20 Apr 2010
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/strokethecow May 12, 2013
What do you get hanging from apple trees?
Sore Arms.
COMMENTS
kimstr
not if you hang by your legs…
       
Google Books
Best Ever Classroom Jokes:
Because some of us never grow up
By Mike Haskins
London, UK: Pavilion Books
2015
Pg. ?:
What do you get hanging from cherry trees?
Sore arms.
 
Twitter
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@ShitJokes
What do you get hanging from apple trees?
Sore arms.
3:12 AM - 1 Oct 2015
     
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Replying to @EE
#win with - What do you get hanging from Mango trees? Sore arms
11:48 AM - 17 Jun 2018
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/SideOfInsanity may 5, 2019
What do you get hanging from apple trees?
Sore arms
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/artiefrombeemovie July 5, 2019
What do you get hanging from apple trees?
Sore arms.