A Thanksgiving dinner riddle is:
Q: What can you never eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
A: Breakfast or lunch.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 1997.
“What are the two things you can’t eat for breakfast?” is a similar riddle.
5 December 1997, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE), “Just for Laughs,” pg. 25, col. 5:
Q: What can you never eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
A: Breakfast or lunch.
Kevin Turner, age 10
Wilmington
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What can you never eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
Breakfast or lunch!
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What can you NEVER eat for Thanksgiving dinner??
...Breakfast or Lunch!!!
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What can’t you ever eat for Thanksgiving Dinner?
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Q: What can you never eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
A: Breakfast or lunch! 
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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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