A pumpkin “patch” (where pumpkins grow) is not the same as a nicotine “patch” (used for nicotine replacement therapy), but there have been several jokes. “‘@timhawkinscomic: I started using a pumpkin patch to kick my addiction to pumpkin.’ Does that work for Pumpkin Spice Latte?” was posted on Twitter on October 28, 2012. “Wait so a ‘pumpkin patch’ isn’t like a nicotine patch for white girls and their pumpkin spice addiction?” was posted on Twitter on October 21, 2014.
“How do you cure someone with a pumpkin spice addiction?"/"Apply the pumpkin patch” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on October 10, 2017.
“How do you fix a cracked pumpkin?"/"With a pumpkin patch” is a similar riddle.
Twitter
Michael Lettner
@lettner
“@timhawkinscomic: I started using a pumpkin patch to kick my addiction to pumpkin.” Does that work for Pumpkin Spice Latte?
8:43 AM - 28 Oct 2012
Twitter
Jeff Angcanan
@Jeff_Angcanan
Craving for pumpkin pie...and pumpkin spice latte!! ( to curb my pumpkin addiction, I got a pumpkin patch but I left it at home...)
9:47 PM - 23 Nov 2012
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MRSA
@marissax426
Pumpkin patch: the latest technique for helping white girls to get over their pumpkin spice latte addiction. Apply to forearm.
7:05 PM - 25 Sep 2013
Twitter
Ironwang
@IronWang
People who can’t kick the pumpkin spice addiction should try the patch…
*lowers sunglasses
The Pumpkin Patch.
8:55 PM - 9 Oct 2014
Twitter
Nate Smith
@natesmithimprov
I’m trying to get over my pumpkin spice addiction so I got the pumpkin patch.
9:11 AM - 10 Oct 2014
Twitter
chet porter
@chetporter
wait so a “pumpkin patch” isn’t like a nicotine patch for white girls and their pumpkin spice addiction?
3:33 PM - 21 Oct 2014
Twitter
That Mothafucka
@Sal0630
A nicotine patch, but for pumpkin spice latte addiction.
A “pumpkin patch” if you will.
3:46 PM - 22 Oct 2014
Reddit—Jokes
How do you cure someone with a pumpkin spice addiction?
submitted October 10, 2017 by Wal-Flower
Apply the pumpkin patch.
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.
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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