A pun on the word “stew” is used in this rabbit stew riddle:
Q: How do you make a rabbit stew?
A: Make it wait for three hours.
The riddle was posted on the newsgroup alt.support.autism on April 14, 2001 and is often grouped with Easter bunny jokes.
“If you want to have rabbit stew, first catch the rabbit” is another saying about making rabbit stew.
Google Groups: alt.support.autism
OT - Happy Easter
BevB
4/14/01
(...)
How do you make a rabbit stew?
Make it wait for 3 hours!
12 April 2003, Daily Press (Timmons, ON), “Easter Internet style: The good, the bad and the corny” by Steve Elliott, pg. 21:
Q. How do you make a rabbit stew? A. Make it wait for three hours!
Southern Maryland Online
101 Easter jokes
jazz lady
04-08-2004, 01:40 PM #1
(...)
Q. How do you make a rabbit stew?
A. Make it wait for 3 hours!
Twitter
Khauv Chiropractic
@DrKim4Health
Q. How do you make a rabbit stew?
A. Make it wait for 3 hours!
http://tinyurl.com/cxb7kc (via @wbaustin)
11:01 AM - 29 Mar 2009
Twitter
Frank Dickinson
@FrankDickinson
RT @wbaustin: Q. How do you make a rabbit stew?
A. Make it wait for 3 hours!
http://tinyurl.com/cxb7kc (Okay…that’s just funny!)
11:02 AM - 29 Mar 2009
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Really Silly Jokes
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK” Constable & Robinson, Ltd
2011
Pg.. 334:
How do you make a rabbit stew?
Make it wait for three hours.
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