# Fruit Riddles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784 "2015-02-16T02:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/1 "2015-02-16T02:53:05Z")
See how many you can get right! 1. What is red or green, round and sometimes sweet and sometimes sour? 2. What is long and white or green and comes in the spring? 3. What is tall and green with lots of small heads on it? 4. What is green on the outside and with lots of small green balls on the inside when you open it up? 5. What is the only vegetable that will make you cry? 6. What grows under ground and has eyes? 7. What fruit is always sour? 8. Which do you use at Halloween? 9. You use them in sauce or you eat them, as they are, red, ripe and wonderful. 10. What is big and white on the inside, but green on the outside? Answers here 1)apple 2)aspargus 3)Brussels sprouts 4)peas 5)onion 6)potato 7)lemon 8)pumpkins 9)tomatoes 10)cauliflower How many did you get right!!!??? Source: [http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/themepark/services/food/fruits-riddles.htm](http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/themepark/services/food/fruits-riddles.htm) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/2 "2015-02-16T05:13:04Z")
These must really be stumping you guys! Come on and give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/3 "2015-02-16T15:35:12Z")
Q which do you use at halloween A pumpkin I don’t think this is an actual riddle. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/4 "2015-02-16T19:08:30Z")
Great work! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/5 "2015-02-16T19:42:48Z")
The thread title is misleading. I had a hard time thinking of a **fruit** that fit each description. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/6 "2015-02-16T20:18:51Z")
Yeah I’m sorry about that. Many were not fruits were they. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/7 "2015-02-16T23:17:35Z")
Answering with all fruits rather than vegetables. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What is red or green, round and sometimes sweet and sometimes sour? Orange. > [@](#): > > 1. What is long and white or green and comes in the spring? [Beans.](http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/cannellinifresh.jpg) > [@](#): > > 1. What is tall and green with lots of small heads on it? [Banana](http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.6240493.1381519162!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG) > [@](#): > > 1. What is green on the outside and with lots of small green balls on the inside when you open it up? [Pomelo](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Pummelo_flesh.jpg) > [@](#): > > 1. What is the only vegetable that will make you cry? Ok, you said vegetable this time. > [@](#): > > 1. What grows under ground and has eyes? [Banana](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Banana_corm.jpg) > [@](#): > > 1. What fruit is always sour? [Brazilian cherry](http://www.rawfish.com.au/images/brazilian-native-indigenous-food-fruit-pitanga1.JPG) > [@](#): > > 1. Which do you use at Halloween? Pumpkin. > [@](#): > > 1. You use them in sauce or you eat them, as they are, red, ripe and wonderful. [Capsicums.](http://www.juicing-for-health.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/capsicums.jpg) > [@](#): > > 1. What is big and white on the inside, but green on the outside? [Custard apple](https://www.buyfruit.com.au/images/E/a8557a2240.jpg), or just a [Granny Smith](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Granny_smith_and_cross_section.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/8 "2015-02-17T00:42:47Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What is the only vegetable that will make you cry? Sunny von Bulow. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/9 "2015-02-17T23:44:10Z")
You guys are too much!!! Keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/10 "2015-02-17T23:58:05Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What is tall and green with lots of small heads on it? The Jolly Green Brahma. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/11 "2015-02-18T00:01:05Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What grows under ground and has eyes? Political sedition. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/12 "2015-02-18T00:14:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > The thread title is misleading. I had a hard time thinking of a **fruit** that fit each description. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > Yeah I’m sorry about that. Many were not fruits were they. Maybe ask a mod to change the title to “Produce riddles?” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/13 "2015-02-18T00:16:50Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What is long and white or green and comes in the spring? Kermit’s willy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/14 "2015-02-18T00:44:19Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. You use them in sauce or you eat them, as they are, red, ripe and wonderful. Communist barfly-floozies. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/15 "2015-02-18T06:37:40Z")
I like your style, **Blake**. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/16 "2015-02-18T08:17:37Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. What is green on the outside and with lots of small green balls on the inside when you open it up? > [@Blake](#): > > [Pomelo](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Pummelo_flesh.jpg) The [better answer](http://images.goodfood.com.au/2013/01/28/3986804/finger-limes.jpg) is [Australian finger lime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_australasica). And you an Ozzie and all, for shame 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/17 "2015-02-18T11:56:08Z")
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/18 "2015-02-18T18:22:12Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maybe ask a mod to change the title to “Produce riddles?” Or possibly “Produce-related questions”. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/19 "2015-02-18T18:24:01Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > 1. What is red or green, round and sometimes sweet and sometimes sour? I would have answered “grapes” for this one ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784/20 "2015-02-18T20:06:24Z")
A rare Produce Department riddle: First, you throw away my outside and cook my inside. Then, you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I? Corn on the cob. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-riddles/712784.md?page=2)