A giraffe riddle is:
Q: What is a giraffe’s favorite fruit?
A: Necktarines.
The “nectarine"/"necktarine" pun has been cited in print since at least 2004.
Wikipedia: Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears an edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine.
Google Books
Super Goofy Jokes
By Jacqueline Horsfall
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
2004
Pg. 16:
What’s a giraffe’s favorite fruit?
Neck-tarines.
Google Books
April 2012, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 59, col. 1:
Peter: What is a giraffe’s favorite fruit?
Elaine: What?
Peter: A neck-tarine!
Julia Staelgraeve, St. Paul, Minn.
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Zuker Gill
@ConkreteMan
What’s a giraffe’s favorite fruit? A Neck-terine.
12:20 PM - 7 Apr 2012
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CarolinaLaurie
@SceneofSublime
What is a giraffe’s favorite fruit? A neck-tarine. #fruityjoke
9:01 AM - 25 Jul 2012
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DamienLamien
@Happily_Shipit
@Harry_Styles What’s a giraffe’s favourite fruit?
A neck-tarine!
12:18 AM - 30 Sep 2013
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BlenderPartsUSA
@BlenderPartsUSA
What’s a giraffe’s favorite smoothie flavor?
NECK-tarine!
(They’ll also drink strawberry in a pinch.) #TGIF #LOL #Giraffe #love #funny
2:11 PM - 3 Feb 2017
Reddit—Jokes
What is a giraffe’s favorite fruit?
submitted March 25, 2018 by evisceraze
Necktarines
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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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