Does bleu cheese get the blues? A bleu cheese riddle is:
Q: What do you call cheese that is sad?
A: Bleu cheese.
The cheesy joke has been cited in print since at least 2004.
Civilization Fanatics Center
100 Cheesiest Jokes
36 Q: What food is the saddest?
A: Bleu Cheese!
Perfection, Aug 19, 2004
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cassarole
@lanceratheart
What do you call cheese that’s feeling down?
Bleu cheese #cheesejokes
9:32 PM - 2 Nov 2012
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Devin
@WeekndNachos
@twerk4bands do what do you call sad cheese
bleu cheese
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11:20 PM - 11 May 2013
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Pizza HutVerified account
@pizzahut
@iNoshCookies What do you call cheese that is sad?...Bleu cheese. We never want you to be bleu!
11:16 AM - 21 Aug 2013
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Jeremy Baker
@jerbakk
What do you call a sad piece of cheese?
A Bleu cheese.
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11:02 PM - 4 Nov 2015
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11 Utterly Cheesy Jokes That Still Make You Laugh
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3. What do you call cheese that’s depressed?
Bleu Cheese
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Bill Helton
@7colonel7
What do you Call Sad Cheese? Bleu Cheese!
5:09 PM - 17 Sep 2016
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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