“What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?”/“A necktarine.”

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Entry from May 19, 2016

“What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?”/“A necktarine.”

The nectarine isn’t featured in many jokes, but there is a pun:

Q: What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
A: A necktarine.

The pun was cited with other Halloween jokes on the newsgroup rec.humor on October 11, 1996.

“What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?”/“A blood orange” and “What’s a vampire’s favorite ice cream?”/“Veinilla” are similar vampire riddles.

Google Groups: rec.humor
HALLOWEEN
Melanie Aultman
10/11/96
(...)
> What is a vampire’s favorite fruit?
NECKtarine

Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Vampires
Hauke Reddmann
5/16/97
(...)
: > What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
: NECK-tarine.
:
Blood Orange?
(At last the ones red inside are called that way in Germany)

Google Groups: rec.humor
HALLOWEEN (Long)
Nancy Carson
10/22/97
(...)
Credit to Melanie Aultman

rec.humor 10-10-96;
What is a vampire’s favorite fruit?
NECKtarine

3 January 1999, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room: Pint-Sized Punch Lines,” pg. 6:
What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit? A necktarine. (James Guttridge, 8, Los Angeles, Roscomare Road School)

Google Books
A Treasury of Humor:
Thousands of humorous stories, jokes, anecdotes and one-liners, up-to-date and categorized for ease of use
By Lowell D. Streiker
Peabody, MA: Hendrickson
2000
Pg. 354:
What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
A necktarine.
—James Guttridge, 8, Los Angeles, Roscomare Road School

Twitter
JK GREEN
‏@G4jima
How to make music I wonder….. @johnbbeta what’s a vampires favourite fruit? A necktarine…..traditional tell that to your driver LOL
8:36 AM - 15 May 2009

Google Books
All Kinds of Humor:
Jokes, Quips, and Fun Stuff for Many Occasions
By Frank Verano
Xlibris Corporation (Xlibris.com)
2012
Pg. 209:
What is Dracula’s favorite fruit?
A necktarine (second choice— blood orange)

The Amazingly Lame Joke of the Day
Monday, October 28, 2013
What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
A necktarine.
Posted by Tim Wycislak at 4:17 AM

Google Books
Dick and Dom’s Big Fat and Very Silly Joke Book
By Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood
London: Pan Macmillan
2014
Pg. ?:
What’s a vampire’s favourite fruit?
A necktarine.

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