An Irish potato riddle is:
Q: When is an Irish potato not an Irish Potato?
A: When it’s a FRENCH fry!
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2003.
Google Books
Let’s Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
By Peter Roop and Connie Roop
Illustrated by Gwen Connelly
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
2003
Pg. ?:
When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
When it’s a FRENCH fty!
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Jest For Kids Weakly 03-16-04
Stan Kegel
(...)
When is an Irish Potato not an Irish Potato?
When its a French fry. (Candy Silver)
Twitter
Shamrock
@Shambo
Shammy’s Joke de Jour: Q: When is an Irish Potato not an Irish Potato? A: When it’s a French Fry.
12:04 PM - 1 Mar 2009
Twitter
JustGoneSystems
@RichardsProClng
When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato? Answer: When it’s a FRENCH Fry!
8:52 PM - 17 Mar 2009
Facebook
Kathy Cummings to Ellen DeGeneres
March 17, 2014 ·
When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato? When it’s a French fry!
Google Books
Food Jokes For Kids 4
By Peter Crumpton
PeteyRF Creative
2015
Pg. ?:
When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
When it’s a French fry!
My Town Tutors
St. Patrick’s Day Jokes: Top 10 St. Patrick’s Day Jokes
Posted on March 17, 2015
(...)
16. When is an Irish Potato not an Irish Potato? …. When it’s a FRENCH fry!
Google Books
1001 Kid’s Jokes
By Kay Barnham
London: Arcturus Publishing
2016
Pg. ?:
When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
When it’s a French Fry.
Twitter
Alana 🍀 ❤️ ⚾️ 💙
@airalana24
When is an Irish Potato not an Irish Potato?😳🍀
When it’s a FRENCH fry! 🍟😁😜😆😂 #cornyjokesarethebestjokes
8:25 AM - 5 Mar 2017 from Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Recent entries:
•
“It’s almost time to put away my black winter clothes and bring out my black spring clothes” (3/29)
•
“White Privilege: The ability to suffer life’s universal indignities without blaming another…” (3/29)
•
“Red Bull gives you wings. Vodka gives you 4x4” (3/29)
•
“Muffins are for people who don’t have the balls to eat cake for breakfast” (3/29)
•
“Do you ever wanna lose weight, but weight doesn’t wanna lose you?!” (3/29)
More new entries...
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.
This site is edited by Barry Popik.