What’s a fresh vegetable? A riddle has been cited in print since at least 1979:
Q: What do you call a carrot that insults a farmer?
A: A fresh vegetable.
Another form of the joke was posted on Twitter on June 15, 2009:
Q: What’s a fresh vegetable?
A: One that insults a farmer.
12 July 1979, Lexington (KY) Herald, “Just Kidding,” pg. D-12, col. 3:
What do you call a carrot that insults a farmer? A fresh vegetable!
—Allison Lewellen, Frankfort
14 April 1980, The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), “Riddles,” pg. 15, col. 2:
What do you call a carrot who insults a farmer?
A fresh vegetable.
By Kim Stecher, 9 1/2
North Redding, Mass.
21 September 1980, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), “Kids share jokes that get lotsa laughs,” pg. D8, col. 3:
What do you call a carrot who insults a farmer?
A fresh vegetable.
—Kimberly Angove
Google Books
January 1983, Boys’ Life “Think & Grin,” pg. 66, col. 1:
Farmer: What do you call a carrot that insults a farmer?
Storekeeper: I don’t know. What?
Farmer: A fresh vegetable.—Matt Dettmann, St. Louis, Mo
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