“Wine” sounds similar to “whine.” “How do you make a Frenchman whine? Kick him in the Beaujolais!” was printed in the Calgary (Alberta) Herald on March 5, 1993.
A riddle was posted on the newsgroup alt.tasteless.humor on July 2, 1998:
Q: How do you make an italian wine?
A: Kick him in his balls.
“How do you make Manischwitz Wine? You kick him in the balls” was posted on the newsgroup alt.security.alarms on December 29, 2007. (Manischewitz sells kosher wines. The joke has also been told using Mogen David.) “How do you make an Italian wine? You kick him in the shins” was posted on Reddit—Cleanjokes on April 29, 2019.
Similar nationality riddles include “How do you make a Belgian waffle?”/“Ask him why they have never won the World Cup,” “How do you make a Swiss roll?”/“Push him down a hill” and “How do you make a Venetian blind?”/“Poke him in the eye.”
5 March 1993, Calgary (Alberta) Herald, “Wine writers do enjoy a joke” by Stuart Allan, pg. C10, col. 1:
Am I scraping the bottom of the barrel, yet? How do you make a Frenchman whine? Kick him in the Beaujolais!
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.humor
Funny Bone
7/2/98
How do you make an italian wine?
Kick him in his balls
Google Groups: alt.fan.don-imus
One correction for Chris Matthews
Twodobes
6/15/00
(...)
>How do you make Mogen David wine?
Kick him in the nuts?
Google Groups: alt.security.alarms
Test
Roger W
12/29/07
(...)
How do you make Manischwitz Wine?
You kick him in the balls.
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Grammar-Hitler March 30, 2016
How do you make Manischewitz Wine?
Kick him in the nuts.
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/marcuccione April 29, 2019
How do you make an Italian wine?
You kick him in the shins
Twitter
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How do you make an Italian wine? You kick him in the shins
6:08 AM - 29 Apr 2019
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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