Ice Cream Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on ice cream puns! 🍦🍨🥄✨

Ice cream comes in many different forms (cake, sandwich, cone, cup), flavours (chocolate, strawberry, mint, etc) and variations (gelato, sorbet, froyo) and all of these are loved around the world. We enjoy ice cream as a dessert all on its own, and as a frosty accompaniment to other foods and drinks, like apple pie, cakes, waffles, milkshakes and soft drinks. Even though it’s a frozen treat, we consume it year round, and is known both as a comfort food and a cheerful summer snack – not something most foods can pull off.

We do need to be aware that the industries behind ice cream are not as wholesome and lovable as the product itself – ice cream relies heavily on the dairy industry, which is responsible for suffering on a mass scale. Luckily, there are plenty of non-dairy ice cream options, with coconut milk, almond milk and soy ice creams (as well as sorbet!) now readily available.

We hope that whatever you were looking for – be it a witty instagram caption, a sweet pick up line (…we do not advise using puns for this) or a punny Facebook post – you were able to find it here.

While this list is as extensive and thorough as we could make it, it is specific to ice cream puns. If you’re interested in related puns, you might like our cow puns, milk puns, chocolate punscake puns, candy puns or fruit puns. We’ve also got entries for chocolate, dessert and cookies underway!

Ice Cream Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about ice cream that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of ice cream puns:

  • Sunday → Sundae: As in, “As long as a month of sundaes” and “Bloody sundae” and “Your sundae best.”
  • Some day → Sundae: As in, “Sundae my ship will come in” and “Sundaes it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed” and “I know I’ll get there sundae.”
  • I scream → Ice cream (the most classic and corny ice cream pun there is)
  • Cram → Cream: “Creamed with vitamins and nutrients.”
  • Dream → Cream: As in, “Beyond my wildest creams” and “Broken creams” and “Cream on” and “Cream big” and “A cream come true” and “I have a cream” and “I wouldn’t cream of it” and “In your creams.”
  • Crime → Cream: As in, “Cream against nature” and “A cream of passion” and “Cream doesn’t pay” and “Cream and punishment” and “Partners in cream” and “A victimless cream” and “The perfect cream.”
  • Disobey → Disorbet: As in, “How dare you disorbet a direct order??” Note: this also works for other forms of the word – like “civil disorbet-dience” and “A disorbet-dient puppy” and “You have disorbeted me for the last time.”
  • *crem* → *cream*: If a word has a “creem” or “cremm” sound in it, we can swap it out for “cream”: creamation (cremation), creamate (cremate), increamental (incremental), increament (increment) and increamentally (incrementally).
  • *crim* → *cream*: We can swap “crim” sounds for “cream”, as in: “Smooth creaminal” and “Blushing creamson” and “Don’t discreaminate against” and “Racial discreamination.”
  • *cram* → *cream*: We can swap “cram” sounds for “cream”, like so: “Creamping my style” and “Foot creamp” and “Screambled eggs on toast” and “Holy sacreament.” Note: a sacrament is a sacred act.
  • Scope → Scoop: As in, “Under the microscoop” and “Scoop out the situation.”
  • Skip → Scoop: As in, “A hop, scoop and jump away” and “Scooping with happiness.”
  • Coop → Scoop: As in, “Flown the scoop” and “All scooped up in that tiny cage.”
  • Soup → Scoop: As in, “From scoop to nuts” and “Alphabet scoop” and “Scooped up.”
  • Swoop → Scoop: As in, “In one fell scoop.”
  • *scap* → *scoop*: As in, “The great escoop” and “A peaceful landscoop” and “Wild escoopades” and “Architectural landscooping.”
  • Sceptical/skeptical → Scooptical
  • *scope → *scoop: telescoop, microscoop, kaleidoscoop, periscoop and horoscoop.
  • Come → Cone: As in, “All good things must cone to an end (this one works particularly well since scooped ice creams do end in cones)” and “All things cone to those who wait” and “As tough as they cone” and “Cone and get it!” and “Cone away with me” and “Cone fly with me” and “Cone running” and “Cone again?” and “Cone back for more” and “Cone full circle” and “Cone hell or high water.”
  • Can → Cone: As in, “Anything you cone do, I cone do better” and “As far as the eye cone see” and “As well as cone be expected” and “Be all that you cone be” and “Bite off more than you cone chew” and “Cone I help you?”
  • Become → Becone: As in, “What becones of the broken-hearted?” and “Becone one” and “What has becone of you?”
  • Own → Cone: As in, “A man after my cone heart” and “Afraid of your cone shadow” and “Be your cone person” and “Beaten at your cone game” and “Chase your cone tail” and “Do your cone thing.”
  • Don’t → Cone’t: As in, “Cone’t call us, we’ll call you” and “Cone’t get me started” and “Cone’t give up your day job” and “Cone’t hold your breath” and “I cone’t fancy your chances.”
  • *met* → *melt*: As in, “Mixed meltaphor” and “Heavy meltal.” Other words that could work: melticulous (meticulous), meltrics (metrics), paramelter (parameter) and geomeltry (geometry).
  • Melt: These phrases are general enough to double as puns in the right context: “In the melting pot” and “Melt into tears” and “Melting my heart.”
  • Waffle: Waffle has two meanings: to talk endlessly, and the biscuit cone that holds an scoop of ice cream. We can use this to make silly ice cream puns – “Waffling on and on.”
  • Possible → Popsicle: As in, “Anything is popsicle” and “The best of all popsicle worlds” and “As soon as popsicle” and “In the worst popsicle taste” and “Mission impopsicle.”
  • Diary → Dairy: As in, “Bridget Jones’ Dairy” and “Let me consult my dairy” and “Dear dairy…”
  • Dare he → Dairy: “How dairy?” Note: Here are some handy facts about the dairy industry.
  • Dearly → Dairy: As in, “I love you dairy” and “Dairy beloved…”
  • Daring → Dairy-ng: As in, “A dairy-ng escape” and “The dairy-ng adventures of…”
  • *dary → *dairy: boundairy, legendairy, quandairy, secondairy. Note: a quandary is a difficult problem.
  • *dery → *dairy: embroidairy (embroidery), spidairy (spidery), doddairy (doddery), powdairy (powdery).
  • *dari* → *dairy*: As in, “Stand in solidairy-ty” and “Learning Mandairyn” and “Healthy relationship boundairys.”
  • *can → *cone: Americone (American), republicone (republican), pelicone (pelican), Mexicone (Mexican), Africone (African) and significone’t (significant).
  • *con* → *cone*: As in, “It’s out of my conetrol” and “None of your conecern” and “Happy and conetent” and “Conetingency plan” and “Not in the conetract” and “Critical conedition” and “Out of conetext” and “Did you conesider this?” and “A puzzling cone-undrum” and “What’s the difference between emoticones and emojis?”
  • *kon → *cone: As in, “Do you rec-cone (reckon)?” and “The ice cream is bec-coneing (beckoning).”
  • *corn* → *cone*: As in, “A tight coner” and “Coner the market” and “Coneflower blue” and “Earn your cone” and “Just around the coner” and “Terribly coney puns” and “The cone-iest joke I’ve ever heard.”
  • Cream → Ice Cream: We can sneakily make some ice-cream puns by sneaking “ice cream” into these cream-related phrases: “Ice cream always rises to the top” and “Ice cream of the crop” and “Skin like peaches and ice cream.”
  • Lack → Lick: As in, “For lick of a better word” and “Cancelled due to lick of interest.”
  • Like → Lick: As in, “As you lick it” and “Lick two peas in a pod” and “As soon as you lick” and “Times lick this.”
  • *lec* → *lick*: As in, “Time for another lick-ture” and “Standing at the licktern (lectern)” and “University lickturer” and “An eclicktic collection” and “Intellicktual pursuits.”
  • *lic* → *lick*: republick, publick, Catholick, idyllick, frolick, hyperbolick, vitriolick, implickation, conflickt and applickation.
  • *luc* → *lick*: “Relicktantly agreed” and “A lickrative (lucrative) business.” Note: if something is lucrative, then it’s profitable.
  • *lik* → *lick*: As in, “Not lickely” and “Yes, lickwise” and “What’s the lickelihood of that?” and “A lickable character” and “Lick-minded friends.”
  • Cake → Ice cream cake: As in, “A slice of the ice cream cake” and “Ice cream cake or death!” and “An ice cream cake walk” and “The icing on the ice cream cake” and “Let them eat ice cream cake.”
  • Ripple: Ripple is a word used frequently to describe ice cream (as in, “ripples of fudge” or “with ripples of cherry sauce.”) so we’ve included ripple in this list:
    • Triple → Ripple: As in, “Ripple threat” and “A ripple whammy” and “Ripple play.”
    • Reply → Ripple-y: As in, “What was their ripple-y?” and “Not worth a ripple-y.”
    • Repl* → Ripple*: As in, “Find a suitable rippleacement” and “Now I have to rippleace it” and “Nutrition-filled ripplenishment.”
  • Choc: Chocolate is such a popular ice cream flavour that you could use the word “choc” in its stead and have it still be easily recognisable (and here’s a quick choc ice cream recipe for you):
    • Check → Choc: As in, “Choc it out!” and “Choc your sources” and “Double choc everything” and “Keep in choc” and “Make a list, choc it twice” and “Take a rainchoc” and “Reality choc” and “Choc-ing up on.”
    • Chuck → Choc: As in, “Choc a sickie” and “Choc-ed out” and “Choc overboard.”
    • Chalk → Choc: As in, “Different as choc and cheese” and “Choc it up to experience.”
  • Spoon: These spoon-related phrases refer to the act of eating ice cream with a spoon:
    • *span* → *spoon*: As in, “Put a spooner in the works” and “Spick and spoon” and “Brand spoonking new.”
    • Noon → Spoon: As in, “Afterspoon delight” and “Good afterspoon” and “High spoon” and “Morning, spoon and night.”
    • *spon* → *spoon*: As in, “Financial spoonge” and “Spoontaneous date” and “Rehabilitation spoonsor” and “Happened spoontaneously” and “What is your respoonse?” and “Heavy respoonsibility.” Other words you could use: respoonded (responded), correspoondence (correspondence), despoondent (despondent) and respoond (respond).
    • *span* → *spoon*: lifespoon (lifespan), timespoon, wingspoon, spooniel (spaniel) and Hispoonic (Hispanic).
  • Cherry: Since cherries are both a common flavour and a topping on ice cream sundaes, these cherry-related phrases could double as suitable puns: “Cherry pick” and “A second bite of the cherry” and “The cherry on top.”
  • Eyes → Ice: As in, “Avert your ice” and “Before your very ice” and “Bring tears to your ice” and “Easy on the ice” and “Ice in the back of your head.”
  • I → Ice: As in, “Ice never said that” and “And what about what Ice want?”
  • Ace → Ice: As in, “Ice in the hole” and “Ice up their sleeve” and “Holding all the ices.”
  • Bubble → Bubblegum: As in, “Bubblegum and squeak” and “Burst your bubblegum” and “Thought bubblegum.” Note: here’s a bubblegum ice cream recipe for you to try.
  • Mint: We’ve got some mint-related phrases and puns as mint is a very popular ice cream flavour, so these can (soft) serve as decent puns in the right context (and here’s a mint ice cream recipe you can try!):
    • Meant → Mint: As in, “We were mint to be together!” and “I didn’t mean that, I mint this” and “What else could you have possibly mint?”
    • *mant* → *mint*: As in, “A soothing mintra” and “Up on the mintel” and “Praying mintis” and “A dormint volcano.” Other words that could work: adamint (adamant), claimint (claimant), informint (informant), semintics (semantics), portminteau (portmanteau), romintic (romantic) and dismintle (dismantle).
    • *ment* → *mint*: As in, “A studious mintor (mentor)” and “Not worth a mintion” and “Mintal effort” and “A positive mintality” and “Awarded a mintorship” and “Gainful employmint” and “No commint” and “Complemintary colours.” Other words you could use: commitmint (commitment), implemint (implement), environmint (environment), managemint (management), judgemint (judgement), movemint (movement) and judgemintal (judgemental).
  • Raising → Rum n’ Raisin: As in, “Rum n’ raisin the bar” and “Rum n’ raisin your eyebrows.” Note: these are references to the flavour rum n’ raisin. These types of puns will generally work if the word “raising” is at the start of the phrase, rather than in the middle or end.
  • Road → Rocky road: As in, “Built for the rocky road ahead” and “Follow the yellow brick rocky road” and “Get the show on the rocky road” and “Hit the rocky road.” Note: these puns are a reference to the flavour rocky road.
  • Pint: Since some countries sell ice cream in pints (take home tubs, that is), we’ve got some pint-related puns:
    • Point → Pint: As in, “At this pint in time” and “Beside the pint” and “Brownie pints” and “Drive your pint home” and “Get right to the pint” and “Jumping off pint” and “Not to put too fine a pint on it” and “I see your pint of view” and “Pint out” and “Pint the finger at” and “A talking pint” and “The sticking pint” and “Case in pint” and “The finer pints of” and “The pint of no return.”
    • Pent → Pint: As in, “Pint up rage.”
    • Pants → Pints: As in, “Ants in their pints” and “Beat the pints off” and “By the seat of your pints” and “Fancy pints” and “Keep your pints on” and “Pints on fire” and “Smarty pints.”
    • Paint → Pint: As in, “A lick of pint” and “A picture pints a thousand words” and “As boring as watching pint dry” and “Body pinting” and “Do I have to pint you a picture?” and “Finger pinting” and “Pint the town red” and “Pinting by numbers.”
    • *pant* → *pint*: As in, “Nothing in the pintry” and “Pinting with fear” and “Disease is rampint” and “A flippint attitude.” Other words that could work: pintomime (pantomime), participint (participant) and occupint (occupant).
  • Serve: Soft serves are a popular type of soft, creamy (usually vanilla) ice cream. They’re loved enough that we think you could get away with using just the word “serve” to make an ice cream pun in the right context:
    • Curve → Serve: As in, “Ahead of the serve” and “Learning serve” and “Serve ball.”
    • *sev* → *serve*: As in, “Serve-ere weather warning” and “Serve-r all ties” and “Serve-ral types of fruit” and “With increasing serve-erity” and “Serve-erance pay” and “Serve-enty percent” and “In the end, perserve-erance pays off” and “Perserve-ere through hard times.”
    • *sive → *serve: comprehenserve (comprehensive), aggresserve (aggressive), eluserve (elusive), pervaserve (pervasive), excluserve (exclusive), extenserve (extensive), apprehenserve (apprehensive), progresserve (progressive) and passerve (passive).
    • *surv* → *serve*: As in, “A quick online servey” and “Under constant serve-eillance” and “You’ll serve-ive this” and “Sole serve-ivor.”
  • Dissertation → Dessertation: As in “I wrote my diploma dessertation on ice cream puns.”
  • Does it → Dessert: As in “It’s comfy, but dessert make my bum look big?” and “Dessert not worry you that society cares so much about appearance?”
  • Desert → Dessert: As in “The Sahara dessert.” and “Just desserts.” and “How could you dessert me at the moment I needed you the most?”
  • Nut: Nuts are a common topping for ice creams and sundaes, so we’ve got some nut-related phrases for you to sprinkle into your wordplay:
    • Not → Nut: As in, “As often as nut” and “Believe it or nut” and “Down, but nut out” and “Nut at all” and “Nut bad” and “Nut in the slightest” and “Nut on your life.”
    • *net* → *nut*: As in, “Social nutwork” and “Nutworking event” and “Fast internut” and “A penutrating glare.” Other words you could use: Other wrods you could use: planut (planet), bonnut (bonnet) and cabinut (cabinut).
    • *nat* → *nut*: As in, “Well, nuturally” and “The nutional anthem” and “Any alternutives?” and “Need your signuture here” and “That resonuted with me.”
    • *not* → *nut*: As in, “Nutwithstanding…” and “Take nutice of” and “Turn it up a nutch” and “Nutorious for” and “Nuthing to worry about” and “I cannut understand you.”
  • Fudge: Fudge is used both as a topping for ice cream and as a stirred-through sweetener. Here are some related puns:
    • Veg → Fudge: As in, “Fudge out” and “Eat your fudgetables.”
    • Budge* → Fudge*: As in, “Quarterly fudget” and “Out of our fudget” and “Won’t fudge.”
    • *fug* → *fudge*: As in, “Taking refudge” and “An escaped fudge-itive.
  • Stick → Drumstick: As in, “Cross as two drumsticks” and “Carrot and drumstick” and “The wrong end of the drumstick.” Note: Drumsticks are a type of ice cream.
  • Corner → Cornetto: As in, “A tight cornetto” and “Cornetto the market” and “Cut cornettos” and “In your cornetto” and “The naughty cornetto.” Note: Cornettos are a type of ice cream.
  • Weis: Weis is an Australian frozen food brand, best known for their fruit bar ice creams (known as Weis bars). Here are some related puns:
    • Wise → Weis: As in, “A word to the weis” and “Easy to be weis after the event” and “None the weiser” and “Older and weiser” and “Street weis” and “Weis beyond your years” and “Weis up.”
    • *wise → *weis: Otherweis, likeweis, clockweis and unweis (unwise).
    • Twice → Tweis: As in, “Tweis as nice” and “Don’t think tweis” and “Lightning never strikes tweis” and “Check it tweis” and “Once or tweis” and “You can’t step into the same river tweis.”
  • Cold: Since ice cream is cold, here are some cold-related phrases that could serve as puns:
    • Cold:”Cold as blue blazes,” and “Cold as ice,” and “Break out in a cold sweat,” and “A cold heart,” and “Going cold turkey,” and “Cold comfort,” and “A cold day in hell,” and “Cold feet,” and “The cold light of day,” and “The cold shoulder,” and “Stone cold sober,” and “In cold blood,” and “Leave out in the cold,” and “Out cold.”
    • *col*→ *cold*: As in, “An extensive cold-lection,” and “Cold-lateral damage,” and “Going to cold-lege,” and “A cold-laborative effort,” and “Newspaper cold-lumnist,” and “Standard protocold,” and “Smooth as chocoldlate.”
  • I see→ Icy: As in, “I call ’em as icy ’em,” and “Icy what you did there.”
  • *icy*: Emphasise the “icy” in some words: “Open-door policy,” and “Honesty is the best policy,” and “Not too spicy,” and “Like a fish needs a bicycle.”
  • *chal* → *chill*: As in, “Up to the chillenge” and “A chillenging situation” and “Nonchillant attitude.”
  • *chel* → *chill*: As in, “Fake leather satchill” and “Bachillor pad.”
  • Chelsea → Chillsea
  • *chil* → *chill*: As in, “Women and chilldren first.”
  • *gel* → *chill*: As in, “Chocolate chillato (gelato)” and “Weirdly chillatinous (gelatinous)” and “My guardian anchill (angel).”
  • *gil* → *chill*: Vichillant (vigilant), achillity (agility) and vichillante (vigilante).
  • For he’s→ Freeze: As in, “Freeze a jolly good fellow!”
  • Free→ Freeze: As in, “A symbol of freezedom,” and “Freeze as a bird,” and “Breathe freezely,” and “Buy one, get one freeze,” and “Freezedom fighter,” and “Get out of jail freeze card,” and “The best things in life are freeze,” and “No such thing as a freeze lunch,” and “Walk freeze,” and “Leader of the freeze world.” Some free-related words: freezelance, freezeloader, carefreeze, scot-freeze, painfreeze and fancy-freeze. Note: to get off scot-free is to get away without penalty or punishment.
  • For his→ Freeze: As in, “Freeze own sake.”
  • Foe→ Froze: As in, “Friend or froze?”
  • Flow*→ Froze*: As in, “Ebb and froze,” and “Get the creative juices froze-ing,” and “Go with the froze.”
  • Ferocious→ Frozecious: As in, “A frozecious facial expression.”
  • Cider → Spider: As in, “All talk and no spider.”
  • Spied her → Spider: As in, “I spider leaving early.” Note: a spider is the Australian/New Zealand name for an ice cream float.
  • Float: “Float” is the shortened term for an ice cream float (which is a scoop of ice cream in a soft drink). Here are related puns:
    • Flat → Float: As in, “Fall float on your face” and “Float broke” and “Float out” and “In no time float.”
    • Leaflet → Leafloat
    • Flotsam → Floatsam: (note: flotsam is floating debris.)
    • *flat* → *float*: floatulence (flatulence), floattery (flattery), infloation (inflation), confloation (conflation).
    • Photo → Floato: As in, “Take a floato, it’ll last longer” and “Wedding floatographer” and “Floatography session.”
    • Flutter → Floatter: As in, “Floatter your eyelashes” and “Have a floatter” and “Heart a-floatter.”
  • Sweat → Sweet: As in “Blood, sweet and tears” and “Beads of sweet rolled down my forehead” and “Break out in a cold sweet” and “By the sweet of my brow” and “Don’t sweet it.” and “Don’t sweet the small stuff.” and “All hot and sweety.”
  • Sweet:  These sweet-related phrases can act as puns in the right situation: As in “You’re so sweet!” and “Oh that’s soo sweet!” and “Revenge is sweet” and “Short and sweet” and “Lay some sweet lines on someone” and “Sweet dreams” and “Sweet Jesus!” and “You bet your sweet life!” and “That was a sweet trick, dude.” and “Sweet as, bro.” and “Whisper sweet nothings” and “Home sweet home” and “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and “Sweet smell/taste of success/victory” and “Sweetheart.
  • Seat → Sweet: As in, “Backsweet driver” and “By the sweet of your pants” and “Hold on to your sweet” and “Not a dry sweet in the house” and “On the edge of my sweet” and “Please be sweeted” and “Take a back sweet” and “The best sweet in the house.”
  • Tree→ Treat: As in, “Difficult as nailing jelly to a treat,” and “Barking up the wrong treat,” and “Can’t see the wood for the treats,” and “Charm the birds out of the treats,” and “Legs like treat trunks,” and “Make like a treat and leave,” and “Money doesn’t grow on treats,” and “Treat hugger,” and “You’re outta your treat.”
  • *tri*→ *tree*: As in, “Full of nutreat-ents,” and “What is your best attreatbute?” and “How cool are golden retreatvers?” and “A love treatangle,” and “A treatvial problem,” and “We pay treatbute to the fallen.”
  • Eat → Treat: As in, “A bite to treat,” and “All you can treat,” and “Treat out of someone’s hand,” and “Treat someone alive,” and “Treat to live,” and “Treat your heart out,” and “Treaten alive,” and “Treating for two,” and “Treats, shoots and leaves,” and “Good enough to treat,” and “You are what you treat.”
  • Milk: As ice cream is made of milk (including non-dairy ones, like almond and coconut), we have some milk-related puns to finish off this list:
    • Silk → Milk: As in, “Smooth as milk” and “Milky smooth.”
    • Make → Milk: As in, “Absence milks the heart grow fonder” and “Milk up your mind” and “Can’t milk head or tail of it” and “Details milk the difference” and “Enough to milk you sick.”

Note: if you’d like further information about the dairy industry or avoiding dairy in your diet and lifestyle, the documentary Dominion is a great place to start. For further information on other animal industries and support in starting your own vegan lifestyle, Earthling Ed’s videos are a great source of information, as are the vegan and animal rights subreddits. And here are some great vegan ice cream recipes for you to try and enjoy!

Ice Cream-Related Words

To help you come up with your own ice cream puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

ice cream, sundae, scoop, cone, soft serve, lick, vanilla, chocolate, bubblegum, neapolitan, strawberry, mint, cookies and cream, butterscotch, chocolate chip, cookie dough, mango, rum and raisin, rocky road, gelato, sorbet, dessert, dairy, waffle (cone), ripple, spoon, choc top, cherry, nuts, whipped cream, sprinkles, fudge, melt, banana split,ice cream cake, ice cream sandwich, ben & jerry’s, baskin robbins, haagen daaz, magnum, drumstick, cornetto, halo top, weiss, dairy queen, paddle pop, peters, cold, icy, chill, freeze, frozen, freezer, pint, treat, sweet, frozen yoghurt, icy pole, popsicle, parlour, churn, spider, float, snowcone, milk

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Candy Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on candy puns! 🍬 🍭 This entry covers general candy-related topics and also specific candy types and brands. Regarding candy brand names, I’ve tried to stick to international brands that most readers would recognise, but there may be a few brands in here which are specific to certain regions. Also, in some cases there is a fine line between candy and dessert, so you may find (what you may class as) dessert puns in this entry too.

Finally, the word “candy” is a North American thing, and so this article’s title might be translated to “sweets puns” or “lolly puns” depending on where you’re from 😉

You might also like to visit the Punpedia entries on food puns, chocolate punsice cream punsHalloween puns, Easter puns and fruit puns.

Candy Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about candy that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • Candy: As in “Eye candy” and “As easy as taking candy from a baby” and “Ear candy” and “He’s such a candy-ass (coward) when it comes to standing up for what he believes in.” and “Don’t try to candy-coat it – you lied, plain and simple.” and “They’re not actually dating – he’s just arm candy to make her parents happy.”
  • Uncanny → Uncandy: As in “He had an uncandy feeling that she was being watched.”
  • Ghandi → Candy: As in “Mahatma Candy was an exceptional human being.”
  • Can they → Candy: As in “How candy hear if they don’t have ears?”
  • Handy → Candy: As in “This will definitely come in candy.”
  • Scant → S-candy: As in “They worked long hours but received only s-candy wages.”
  • Can these → Candies: As in “How candies people live like this?” and “Candies desks be shifted over there?” and “Candies drafts – they’re no good.”
  • Sugar: As in “Oh sugar!” and “What’s wrong, sugar?” and “Gimme some sugar” and “Sugar daddy.”
  • Connection → Confection: As in “The police have interviewed several people in confection with the stolen sweets,” and “As soon as we met we had an instant confection.”
  • Confession → Confection: As in “I have a confection to make…” and “Confection is good for the soul,” and “The interrogators soon got a confection out of him.”
  • Conviction → Confection: As in “She had a previous confection for a similar offence,” and “She has strong political confections, and she’s not afraid to defend them.” and “She spoke powerfully and with confection.”
  • Sweet: As in “You’re so sweet!” and “Oh that’s soo sweet!” and “Revenge is sweet” and “Short and sweet” and “Lay some sweet lines on someone” and “Sweet dreams” and “Sweet Jesus!” and “You bet your sweet life!” and “That was a sweet trick, dude.” and “Sweet as, bro.” and “Whisper sweet nothings” and “Home sweet home” and “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and “Sweet smell/taste of success/victory” and “Sweetheart
  • Suite → Sweet: As in “She was renting a 2-bedroom sweet for the summer.”
  • Sweat → Sweet: As in “Blood, sweet and tears” and “Beads of sweet rolled down my forehead” and “Break out in a cold sweet” and “By the sweet of my brow” and “Don’t sweet it.” and “Don’t sweet the small stuff.” and “All hot and sweety
  • Sweater → Sweeter: As in “A close-knit woollen sweeter for cold days”
  • Switch → Sweet-ch: As in “Bait and sweet-ch” and “Asleep at the sweet-ch” and “Sweet-ch gears” and “You should sweet-ch out your old one with this one.”
  • Switzerland → Sweetzerland: As in “Zürich is a lovely city in Sweetzerland.”
  • Seat → Sweet: As in, “Backsweet driver” and “By the sweet of your pants” and “Hold on to your sweet” and “Not a dry sweet in the house” and “On the edge of my sweet” and “Please be sweeted” and “Take a back sweet” and “The best sweet in the house.”
  • Desert → Dessert: As in “The Sahara dessert.” and “Just desserts.” and “How could you dessert me at the moment I needed you the most?”
  • Dissertation → Dessertation: As in “I wrote my diploma dessertation on candy puns.”
  • Does it → Dessert: As in “It’s comfy, but dessert make my bum look big?” and “Dessert not worry you that society cares so much about appearance?”
  • Mellow → Mallow: As in “She took on a more mallow personality when she moved to the country.” and “Mallow out.” (This is a marshmallow pun in case you missed it)
  • Much → Marsh: This may not quite fit as a candy pun, but if your context is allows for subtle marshmallow puns, these might work:”Too marsh information” and “There’s not marsh to it” and “Too marsh of a good thing” and “Too marsh too soon” and “Marsh obliged” and “It doesn’t amount to marsh.” and “It’s not marsh to look at, but …” and “Thank you very marsh.” and “Without so marsh as a …” and “Nothing marsh.” and “It leaves marsh to be desired.”
  • Sugarcoat: As in “She’s very straightforward. She doesn’t sugarcoat the truth.” and “They tend to sugar-coat it to make it more appealing to the masses.”
  • Came → Cane: This could be a candy cane pun or a sugar cane pun. Examples: “There’s plenty more where that cane from.” and “His overseas trips cane into question after the costs were calculated.” and “We only just cane short of a gold medal.” and “And that’s where I cane in …” and “The whole thing cane crashing down.”
  • Can → Cane: As in “You cane do it!” and “Cane do.” and “You’re opening a cane of worms here.” and “Cane you imagine?” and “As best one cane.” and “I cane live with that.” and “Kick the cane down the road” and “No cane do!”
  • Gain → Cane: As in “We need to cane the upper hand.” and “We’ve caned entrance to the building.” and “We’re cane-ing ground against our competitors.” and “No pain, no cane.” and “One person’s loss is another person’s cane.” and “Nothing ventured, nothing caned.”
  • lol → lol-ly: As in “Lol-ly that  was a good candy pun.”
  • Daffy Duck → Taffy Duck
  • Gun → Gum: As in “A smoking gum” and “Son of a gum!” and “I’m under the gum at the moment.” and “Don’t jump the gum!”
  • Game → Gum: These can be chewing gum puns, gumdrop puns or puns for whatever gum-based candy you want: “A gum of musical chairs” and “This is a losing gum” and “She’s at the top of her gum today” and “It’s all just fun and gums” and “He was beaten at his own gum” and “Two can play at this gum.” and “Now we play the waiting gum” and “That’s the name of the gum” and “It’s a zero-sum gum.” and “What’s our gum plan?” and “Gum, set, match!”
  • Gung-ho → Gum-ho: In English usage, the term “gung-ho” means “unthinkingly enthusiastic and eager” – especially in relation to fighting and warfare.
  • com* → gum*: If a word begins with “com” (or similar) it can sometimes be turned into a terrible gum pun: gumbatant (combatant), gumbustion (combustion), gumfortably (comfortably), gummemoration (commemoration), gummercialisation, gummodities, gumpany (company), gummunication, gumparative, gumparisons, gumpetition, gumprised, gumpulsive, gumpulsion, gumputer, gumbersome.
  • Gamble → Gumball: As in “He gumballed all his money away.” and “I wouldn’t gumball on it. Its not likely to happen.”
  • Liquor is → Licorice: As in “Licorice a destructive force in many communities.” and “Like cannabis, licorice a drug that people use for entertainment.”
  • Jealous → Jelly: As in “Omg your puns are so much better than mine. I’m so jelly.”
  • Jealous … been → Jelly … bean: As in “I’m so jelly that I’ve bean saving up to buy what you’ve got.”
  • Bar: As in “We managed to find them all, bar one.” and “They barred the door.” and “It’s a small bar that’s only open on weekends.”
  • *bar*: If a word contains the “bar” sound it may be an easy candy/chocolate bar pun: barbarian, barbecue, barbie, barcelona, bargaining, bargain, barnacles, barn, bombarded, embark, crowbar, handlebars.
  • Mint: As in “It is in mint condition.” and “We mint 3000 new coins here each day.”
  • Meant → Mint: As in “We were mint to be.” and “He mint the world to me” and “No offence mint.”
  • Minute → Mint: As in “I’ll be down in just a mint!” and “Wait a mint…” and “I’ll be with you in a mint.” and “Any mint now…” and “Come here this very mint.” and “Last-mint flights are always expensive.”
  • *ment → *mint: If a word ends with “ment” it can usually be turned into a terrible mint pun. Sometimes mints are called “peppermints” or “spearmints”. You can emphasise the “mint” part if you want – I’ve used underlines here for the first few: governmint, developmint, momint, managemint, departmint, movemint, agreemint, environmint, treatmint, statemint, investmint, employmint, argumint, parliamint, equipmint, elemint, commint, documint, paymint, assessmint, commitmint, requiremint, arrangemint, improvemint, appointmint, settlemint, experimint, establishmint, involvemint, instrumint, achievemint, judgmint, retiremint, unemploymint, implemint, judgemint, replacemint, excitemint, announcemint, punishmint, measuremint, amendmint, supplemint, entertainmint, tournamint, adjustmint, fragmint, advertisemint, disappointmint, recruitmint, pavemint, apartmint, encouragemint, assignmint, imprisonmint, engagemint, embarrassmint, regimint, enforcemint, testamint, complemint, segmint, amusemint, resentmint, enjoymint, monumint, disagreemint, garmint, placemint, attainmint, repaymint, attachmint, sedimint, basemint, sentimint, entitlemint, cemint, compartmint, complimint, acknowledgemint, harassmint, astonishmint, temperamint, endowmint, detachmint, endorsemint, deploymint, amazemint, enhancemint, ornamint, enlightenmint, reinforcemint, advancemint, abandonmint, refreshmint, infringemint, instalmint, alignmint, refinemint, shipmint, tormint, accompanimint, displacemint, impairmint, redevelopmint, indictmint, refurbishmint, bereavemint, predicamint, consignmint, embankmint, augmint, allotmint, enrolmint, procuremint, postponemint, confinemint, lamint, containmint, assortmint, detrimint, pigmint, catchmint, enlargemint, enactmint, bombardmint, tenemint, enrichmint, parchmint, sacramint, ailmint, disarmamint, clemint, armamint, adjournmint, enchantmint, resettlemint, internmint, reimbursemint, bewildermint, realignmint, disillusionmint, inducemint, pronouncemint, disablemint, embodimint, puzzlemint, understatemint, incremint, reassessmint, rearrangemint, encroachmint, commandmint, commencemint, ligamint, filamint, impedimint, fermint, contentmint, accomplishmint, nourishmint, escapemint, escarpmint, estrangemint, entanglemint, figmint, mismanagemint, divestmint, ointmint, curtailmint, incitemint, encampmint, embellishmint, empowermint, impeachmint, prefermint, pedimint, discouragemint, embezzlemint, acknowledgmint, decremint, reinstatemint, apportionmint, concealmint, casemint, restatemint, retrenchmint, redeploymint, wondermint, abatemint, readjustmint, underdevelopmint, battlemint, excremint, underachievemint, merrimint, fomint, fitmint, easemint, appeasemint, endearmint, banishmint, atonemint, replenishmint, rudimint, emplacemint, emolumint, annulmint, bettermint, adornmint, vestmint, impoverishmint, disbursemint, discernmint, pretreatmint, disengagemintdisenchantmint, vehement. If that list isn’t big enough for you, you can find more words ending in “ment” here.
  • Kooky → Cookie: As in “Stop acting all cookie, you’re scaring the kids!”
  • So close → Sucrose: As in “Sucrose yet so far.”
  • Fudge: As in “Oh fudge!” and “These figures have obviously been fudged.” and “The authorities have fudged the issue”
  • Rock: If the context in which you’re punning is right, you may be able to make rock candy puns by slipping “rock” word play into your communications: “Don’t rock the boat” and “We’ve hit rock bottom” and “Between a rock and a hard place” and “Let’s rock and roll!” and “We rock!” and “Rock your world”
  • *roc* → *rock*: Some terrible rock candy puns can be made using words containing the “rock” sound. As explained above, these will likely only pass as candy puns if your context is weighted towards rock candy. Examples: app-rocks-imate, b-rock-oli, bu-rock-racy, frock, p-rock-lamation, p-rocks-imity.
  • Sourball: As well as referring to a round, sour piece of candy, this can informally refer to a person who has a tendency to be grumpy and/or pessimistic.
  • Life saver: As in “Thanks! You’re a life saver!”
  • Sucker: In North America this is another term for “lollipop”. Examples:  “So long, suckers!” and “I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale.” and “He’s one strong sucker!”
  • Brittle: This refers to a type of candy which is brittle (hence the name) and composed of hardened sugar and nuts. Examples: “Their marriage is very brittle.” and “I fear that the relations between the countries are very brittle.” and “His speech sounded inauthentic and brittle.”
  • Waste → Waist: Since high-sugar foods like candy are a major contributor to obesity, you might be able to make a “waist” pun depending on your context: “It’s a waist of breath/energy.” and “Don’t let it go to waist.” and “You’ll waist away.” and “They laid waist to the village.” and “Waist not, want not.” and “Toxic waist” and “Haste makes waist.”
  • Give me (Gimme) → Gummy / Gummi: As in “Oh gummy a break will you!” and “Oh lordy, gummy a sign.” and “Gummy liberty or gummy death.”

The following puns are mostly based around specific brands of candy, rather than general candy-related words:

  • Smarty: As in “Well you’re a bit of a smarty pants aren’t you!” and “I’m trying to learn from all the smarties in my math class.”
  • Could bury → Cadbury: As in “I cadbury myself in my work for hours without noticing.” and “You cadbury your head in the sand but it wouldn’t solve the issue.”
  • Kinder: The Kinder Surprise is a famous chocolate egg with a surprise toy inside. Although “Kinder” is pronounced “k-ih-nder”, we still might get away with using it in place of the word “kinder” as in “more kind”. Examples: “You wont find a Kinder soul on Earth.” and “Maybe if you were Kinder to others, then others would be Kinder to you.”
  • Kind of (Kinda) → Kinder: As in “I’m still Kinder disappointed that we missed the show.” and “I’m still Kinder Surprised about that.”
  • Kindest → Kinder-st: As in “Kinderst regards, …” and “He is the Kinder-st person I’ve ever met.”
  • Sour patch: As in “I’m going through a sour patch right now, but I’m determined to get through it.”
  • Extra: (A reference to the brand of chewing gum) As in “Extra, extra, read all about it!” and “Go the extra mile.” and “I could use an extra pair of hands.”
  • Nerds: (A reference to the Wonka candy) As in “I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to tea.” and “Nerds now rule the world.”
  • Many →Good & Plenty: As in “Good & Plenty hands make light work” and “Good & Plenty a true word is spoken in jest.”
  • Snickers: As in “There were a few rude snickers from the audience as she left the stage.”
  • Laugh → Snickers: As in “I snickered all the way to the bank.” and “Snicker your head off.” and “The audience burst out snickering.” and “Rolling on the floor snickering.”
  • Pieces → Reese’s Pieces: As in “It got blown to Reese’s Pieces.” and “There were all sorts of bits and Reese’s Pieces at the garage sale.” and “After the accident they all needed some time to pick up the Reese’s Pieces.”
  • *pez*: If a word contains the “pez” sound (or similar) we can make some silly Pez puns: pezimistic, pezimism, pezant, pezantry, pezticide, pezter (pester), spezification, spezified, Budapezt, spezimen.
  • Her? She’s … → Her? Shey’s: As in “Who? Her? Shey’s been hanging around here for a while.”
  • Roll over → Rolo-ver: As in “Rolo-ver onto your belly and into pushup position.”
  • Tricks → Twix: As in “I’ve got a few twix up my sleeves.” and “I’ve had enough of your dirty twix!” and “Up to your old twix I see?” and “You can’t teach an old dog new twix.” and “Twix of the trade.” and “Bag of twix” and “How’s twix?”
  • Warheads: As in “There is increasing concern over the number of nuclear warheads in the world.”
  • Tomorrow → To-moro: As in “What are you up to tomoro?” and “To-moro is another day.” and “As if there were no to-moro” and “Here today, gone tomoro” and “Tomoro never comes”
  • Bounty: As in “He has a large bounty on his head.” and “One of the bounties of nature.”
  • Crunchy → Crunchie
  • Aero: As in “The small aeroplane was incredibly agile.”
  • Flake: As in “He so unreliable – total flake.” and “She’s a bit flaky.”
  • Picnic: As in “It’s no picnic!” and “One sandwich short of a picnic” and “A nice picnic in the park.”
  • Airhead: As in “He talks a lot, but doesn’t really think much – bit of an airhead.”
  • 100 Grand: As in “That think must be worth 100 grand!”
  • Eclipse: As in “The economy has eclipsed the environment as the main issue.”
  • Wriggly → Wrigley: As in “They’re so wrigley I can barely hold them!”
  • Payday: As in “I can’t afford it until payday.”
  • Zero: As in “Ground zero” and “We have a zero tolerance policy” and “It’s a zero-sum game” and “She went from zero to hero” and “We need to zero in on the cause.”
  • Mounds: As in “It’ll bring you mounds of joy.”
  • Score → Skor: As in “But who’s keeping skor?” and “Four skor and seven years ago” and “She know’s the skor” and “I’ve got a skor to settle.”
  • Race → Reese: As in “Reese you to the top?” and “It’s a reese against time” and “Off to the reese’s” and “I don’t have a horse in this reese.”

Candy-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of candy-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

candy, candies, sugar, chocolate, confection, confectionery, rock candy, sweet, dessert, caramel, marshmallow, candy cane, sugarcoat, hard candy, lollipop, taffy, gumdrop, licorice, liquorice, cotton candy, candyfloss, syrup, chewing gum, bonbon, nougat, sweeten, praline, butterscotch, toffee, turkish delight, jelly bean, candy corn, candy bar, chocolate bar, milk chocolate, sweets, mint, sweetener, cookies, cookie, gummy, lolly, sugary, saccharine, sucrose, fructose, glucose, sugarcane, fudge, rock, jelly, jawbreaker, gobstopper, peppermint, fondant, jujube, lozenge, sugarplum, nonpareil, horehound, easter egg, sweet tooth, lemon drop, sourball, chewy, dark chocolate, brittle, life savers, bar, suck, sucker, sweet tooth, spearmint, candy corn, diabetes, waist, blood sugar, obesity, cavities, tooth decay

smarties, cadbury, nestle, kinder surprise, kinder, pez, gummi bears, gummy worms, reese’s pieces, reese’s sticks, hershey bar, lindt, maltesers, kit kat, hershey’s kisses, milk duds, milky way, rolo, snickers, twix, whoppers, m&m’s, jelly tots, jolly rancher, twizzlers, chupa chups, sugar daddy, warheads, sour patch kids, milky way, extra, aero, bounty, crunchie, curly wurly, flake, moro, picnic, toblerone, twirl, wonka, nerds, zero, 3 musketeers, skor, cherry ripe, skittles, 100 grand, airheads, sour punch, runts, pop rocks, sweet eye, sugar baby, dove, hot tamale, eclipse, fishermen’s friend, fox’s glacier, wrigley, excel, mentos, minties, polo, tic tac, juicy fruit, hubba bubba, trident, milk duds, spree, starburst, werther’s originals, rolo, oreos, riesens

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