A fruit punch riddle is:
Q: What’s red and green and wears boxing gloves?
A: A fruit punch.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2000.
Google Books
Super-Duper Good Clean Jokes for Kids
By Bob Phillips
Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers
2000
Pg. 165:
Winifred: What’s red and green and wears boxing gloves?
Myrtle: I have no idea.
Winifred: A fruit punch.
25 July 2002, Vancouver (BC) Sun, “Joker’s Corner, pg. C14:
Kaveh: What’s green, red and yellow and wears boxing gloves?
Katie: Fruit punch!
3 May 2003, Evening Mail (Birmingham, UK), “M2 Children: Joke Corner,” pg. 42:
WHAT’S red and green and wears boxing gloves? A fruit punch!
Twitter
Anita Searle
@AnitaSearle
JFTD What’s red, green, yellow and orange and wears boxing gloves?....Fruit Punch! Thank God it’s the weekend!!! xxxx
5:07 AM - 27 Jun 2009
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Max vanRhee Memorial
@maxsoccer
What’s red and green and wears boxing gloves? A fruit punch.
3:07 PM - 23 Dec 2009
Google Books
Best Ever Classroom Jokes:
Because some of us never grow up
By Mike Haskins
London, UK: Pavilion Books
2015
Pg. ?:
What’s red and green and wears boxing gloves?
A fruit punch.
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