A popular apple joke is:
“What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm!”
“Finding half a worm” implies that one has eaten the other half. The joke has been cited in print since at least 1911.
An anti-joke version is:
Q: What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
A: The Holocaust.
The Holocaust—a genocide in the 20th century—is, of course, worse than finding a worm in your apple. The antijoke has been cited in print since at least 2004 and has been featured on many images.
The Rubber Chicken
Mailbag: A Man Named Clive
Posted on October 12th, 2004 by Ben K
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Spacecow: Q: What’s even worse than finding a worm in your apple?
A: The Holocaust.
Something Awful
Jokes With Realistic Endings
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2005 by Nick “Mayor Wilkins” Dunn
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What’s worse then finding a worm in your apple?
The Holocaust.
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Benjamin Kline
2/21/06
You guys know anti-jokes? Like jokes that aren’t supposed to be funny, but they are, no matter how sick your sense of humor is.
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And the masterpiece :
Q: What is worse than biting into an apple with a worm in it?
A: The Holocaust
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What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
Risparew Comedienne
4/1/06
The Holocaust.
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9/27/06
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What’s worse than finding a maggot in your apple?
Getting raped.
What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
The Holocaust.
Twitter
Alaina
@in_theory
A riddle: What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Give up? The Holocaust.
1:33 PM - 16 Dec 2007
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08-22-2008, 02:35 AM
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Whats worse then finding a worm in your apple?
The holocaust.
Facebook
Whats worse than finding half a worm in your apple?. . . The holocaust
August 10, 2011
reddit
What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm in it? Finding half a worm in it. And what’s worse than that?
submitted April 23, 2015 by smootilicious
The holocaust
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. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
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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