A popular monster riddle is:
Q: What’s a monster’s favorite bean?
A: A human bean.
The riddle has been cited in print since at least 1996, when it was included in a Halloween joke list.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Gorgeous
10/22/96
(...)
Q. What’s a monsters favorite bean?
A. A human bean.
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Halloween Jokes
Karl-Heinz Wachtendorf
11/2/97
(...)
Q. What’s a monsters favorite bean?
A. A human bean.
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Halloween Shorties
Bill McCartney
11/1/98
(...)
What’s a monster’s favorite bean?
A human bean.
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[OT] Hallo Bean
Denise~*
10/31/00
(...)
Q. What’s a monster’s favorite bean?
A. A human bean.
Twitter
Lofton Staffing
@LoftonStaffing
Q. What’s a monster’s favorite bean?
A. A human bean.
12:27 PM - 23 Oct 2009
Google Books
The Ultimate Kid’s Joke Book
By Peter Coup
London: Arcturus Publishing Limited
2013
Pg. ?:
What’s a monster’s favourite bean?
A human bean!
Google Books
Justin’s Chuckle Time
By Justin Fletcher
London: Faber & Faber
2013
Pg. ?:
What is a monster’s favourite bean?
A human bean.
Google Books
Gigglers: Disgusting Jokes
By Toby Reynolds
London: Scholastic UK
2015
Pg. ?:
Q. What is a monster’s favourite bean?
A. A human bean!
Twitter
kvag
@kelseygranchie
SPOOKY JOKE OF THE DAY: what a monster’s favorite vegetable? a human bean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👻
7:46 AM - 6 Oct 2016
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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