A popular food joke is:
Q: What do you call a pig that does karate?
A: A pork chop.
The joke was published in Boys’ Life in 1978 (and has been resubmitted by many other readers and published in later editions of the magazine).
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November 1978, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 77, col. 1:
Porky: What do you call a pig who knows karate?
Corky: A pork chop. — William Pyle, Carson City, Nev.
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February 1992, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 65, col. 3:
Duff: What do you call a pig that knows karate?
Dink: I dunno. What?
Duff: A pork chop!
—Bradley Ortloff, Madill, Okla.
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Penguin Pocket Jokes
By David Pickering
London: Penguin Books
2006
Pg. ?:
What do you call a pig that does karate?
A porkchop.
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The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
By Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd.
2012
Pg. ?:
What do you call a pig that does karate?
A pork chop.
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Reader’s Digest Funny Family Jokes:
Something for Everyone from Age 9 to 99
By Editors at Reader’s Digest
White Plains, NY: The Reader’s Digest Association
2014
Pg. ?:
Q: What do you call a pig that does karate?
A: A pork chop.
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