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• Let us → Lettuce: As in “Lettuce eat!” and “Lettuce celebrate!”
• I love → Olive: As in “Olive you so much!” and “Olive silly food puns!”
• Or live → Olive: As in “Live like a king olive on a shoe string.”
• All of → Olive: As in “Sending olive my love to your family.”
• Time → Thyme: As in “All in good thyme.” and “Better luck next thyme.” and “We just need to buy some thyme.”
• In jest → Ingest: As in “Many a true word is spoken ingest.”
• Done → Dine: As in “When all is said and dine” and “Dine and dusted.”
• Din* → Dine*: If a word begins with the “dine” sound, we can make a dinner pun: dineosaur, dineamically, dineamite.
• Scoff: This term refers to eating greedily or to talking to someone in a mean and “mocking” manner. Example: “Are you scoffing at my food puns?”
• Fast: As in “You’re all so fast at these food puns.” and “Not so fast.” (A “fast” is an extended period of not eating. This one is reasonably subtle.)
• So she → Sushi: As in “Sushi’s studying to become a computer programmer now.” and “Sushi loves you?”
• Maze → Maize: As in “It’s a complicated maize to navigate.”
• Crop up: To “crop up” means to appear unexpectedly and/or suddenly, and thus could be a pun on “crop” which is a cultivated grain, fruit or vegetable.
• Baggage → Cabbage: This one is a bit on the corny side: “I’m carrying around a lot of emotional cabbage.” or “Please place personal items in the overhead cabbage compartment.”
• Loaf: As in “Stop loafing around! Get up and do something!” (To “loaf” is to waste time and laze about)
• Lunch → Hunch: As in “The lunch-back of Notre Dame.” and “I got a lunch.”
• Until → Lentil: A very corny one: “It ain’t over lentil it’s over!” and “It’s all fun and games lentil someone gets hurt.”
• Branch → Brunch: As in “Shall we call a truce? I’m extending an olive brunch here.” and “We’re brunching out into other industries.”
• Knack → Snack: As in “Here, let me try, there’s a bit of a snack to it.”
• Grain: As in “I’m going to go against the grain here and say …” and “There’s a grain of truth in what he’s saying.” and “I’d take it with a grain of salt.”
• Nut(s): As in “He’s going nuts!” or “Yeah, he’s a bit of a nut.”
• *nut*: If a word contains the “nut” sound (or similar), we can make a simple nut pun: affectionut, alternutively, compassionut, definutely, femininuty, coordinuts, fortunutely, genutalia, imaginutive, infinuty, magnut, insanuty, opportunuty, proportionutely.
• Penny → Penne: As in “It cost a pretty penne.” and “A penne saved is a penne earned.” (Penne is a cylindrical type of pasta)
• Excited → Eggcited: As in “I’m eggcited and curious about plant-based egg replacements.” and “The eggcitement is killing me!”
• Aren’t you → Orange you: As in “Orange you glad to see me?”
• Speechless → S-peach-less: As in “You’ve left me s-peach-less.”
• Honey: As in “Honey, I’m home!”
• Honey, do → Honey, dew: As in “Honey, dew or dew not, there is no try.” or “Honey, dew you know where my keys are?”
• Melancholy → Meloncholy: As in “An air of meloncholy surrounded him.”
• Better → Breader: As in “You breader believe it!”
• Mint: “All of the items are mint condition.”
• Mean’t → Mint: As in “We were just mint to be.” and “You weren’t mint to eat it!”
• *ment → *mint: Words that end in “ment” can be simple cheesy “mint” puns: governmint, developmint, momint, managemint, departmint, agreemint, environmint, investmint, employmint, equipmint, commint, assessmint, requiremint, improvemint, appointmint, settlemint, experimint, establishmint, implemint, announcemint, punishmint, measuremint, disappointmint, advertisemint, encouragemint, embarrassmint, segmint, argumint, pigmint, tormint, paymint, ornamint, sedamint, vehemint, shipmint, treatmint, statemint, merrimint. See this list for more.
• Great → Grate: As in “Oh grate! Another food pun.” and “Grate minds think alike.”
• All up in your → Jalapeño: As in “Jalapeño business.” and “Jalapeño grill.”
• Serial → Cereal: As in “There’s a cereal killer on the loose.”
• Surreal → Cereal: As in “The view from the summit was cereal.” and “I love impressionism and cereal art.”
• Sublime: As in “The view from the summit was sublime!”
• Stone → Scone: As in “The philosopher’s scone.” and “Leave no scone unturned.” and “Sticks and scones may break my bones …”
• Care at → Carrot: As in “I don’t carrot all.”
• Turn up → Turnip: As in “Turnip the music!” and “It’ll turnip somewhere.”
• Sacrifice → Sacrifries: As in “It was a supreme sacrifries.”
• Sacrifice → Sacrifrice: As in “It was a sacrifrice that we had to make.”
• Suffice → Suffries: As in “Suffries it to say …”
• Flies → Fries: As in “Time fries when you’re having fun!”
• Tango → Mango: As in “Well, it takes two to mango.”
• Man, go → Mango: As in “Hey mango pick on someone else.”
• Much → Munch: As in “That’s a bit munch.” and “Too munch information.”
• Serve: As in “Dude, you just got served.” and “My duty is to serve and protect.”
• Menu: As in “That’s completely off the menu.”
• Man, you → Menu: As in “Menu need to see someone about that.”
• Not re-enter → Nutrient-er: As in “You should nutrient-er the discussion after that terrible contribution.”
• Cook: Other than the obvious definition it can also refer to “altering dishonestly”, as in “They cooked the numbers and were done for fraud.”
• That → Fat: As in “Fat is not true – take it back!” and “But fat’s another story.”
• Up beat → Up beet: As in “I’m feeling fairly up beet today :)” (meaning cheerful/optimistic)
• Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
• *sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
• Swoop → Soup: As in, “One fell soup,” and “Souped in and saved the day.”
• Super → Souper: As in, “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No…it’s Souperman!” and “Souper bad,” and “Souper bass,” and “Souper Mario Bros.” and “Souperhero,” and “Soupersize,” and “Souperhero strength,” and “A lack of soupervision.”
• *sop* → *soup*: While some of these have a soft “ph” sound, they still work visually for pumpkin soup puns: Souphisticated, souphomore, souporific, aesoup, soursoup, philosouphy, and souprano. Notes: a soporific is a drug designed to induce sleep. Soursop is a type of fruit. 
• Supper → Soupper: As in, “Sing for your soupper,” and “Soupping with the devil,” and “The last soupper.”
• Piecemeal: Piecemeal means “a little at a time”, and has the obvious “meal” pun in it already: “I think I can manage to eat all of this, but I’ll have to do it piecemeal.”
• Milk: As in “You’re really milking this for all it’s got, aren’t you?”
• So → Soy: This works best when the following word starts with “y”, as in “Soy you think you’re better than me, hey?” and “Soy yesterday went well?”
• Soil → Soyl: As in “That tofu pun was hilarious – I almost soyled my pants.” and “Fertile soyl.”
• Wait → Wheat: As in “Wheat a second…” and “I am lying in wheat.”
• We t* → Wheat: As in “Wheat talked about this last night.” and “Wheat took our time.”
• We’d → Wheat: As in “Wheat love for you to join us!”
• Greedy ent* → ‘gredient: This one’s a bit of a stretch! Examples: “Those ‘gredient-erprising bastards!” and “The ‘gredient-titled youngers.”
• Salty: Other than the obvious food-related definition, this term has several slang definitions including “being upset/angry”.
• Fruity: Other than referring to actual fruit, this term also has several slang definitions including being flamboyant or “bouncy”.
• Fruit cake: This term is often used as a synonym for someone who is “one sandwich short of a picnic”, that is, someone who is crazy. Please note that it is also a slang derogatory synonym for “homosexual” in some countries/regions, so be careful using this!
• Bred → Bread: As in “Perfect table manners! You’re well bread.”
• It → Eat: As in “Eat is not quite as eat seems.” and “Eat’s not the first time I’ve said this, but …”
• Its / It’s → Oats / Oat’s: As in “Oat’s just a matter of time.” and “Oat’s a shame.” and “Oat’s nothing personal” and “Oat’s worth oats weight in gold.” and “Takes oats toll.” and “A life of oats own.” and “Oat’s about time!” and “Look at oats cute little face!”
• Ought → Oat: As in “You oat to say sorry.” and “Five minutes oat to be enough time.”
• *eat*: Any word that contains the “eat” sound (or similar) can obviously be made into a silly eating pun: cheating, beatle, athleat, aneatime (anytime), compleat, conceated, deceatful, deleat, discreat, eleat (elite), graffeati, fleat (fleet),  featus, heartbeat, Eatalian (Italian), greating (greeting), Peater (Peter), preatending, repeatedly, reatirement, streat, sweatheart, preatentious.
• Bowl: As in “I was completely bowled over.”
• Stew: This term can also refer to being in a state of anxiety and agitation. As in “Stew in one’s own juices.” and “I was in a bit of a stew.”
• Carry → Curry: As in “I’m going as fast as my legs can curry me!” and “Keep calm and curry on.”
• Even → Oven: As in “Oven my little brother knows that!” and “That’s not oven fair.”
• Date: A “date” is a type of dried fruit, but it obviously has some more common meanings too: “This is my first blind date.” and “Save the date!”
• Raising → Raisin: As in “We’re raisin the roof!” and “Raisin two kids as a single mother is hard.”
• Reason → Raisin: As in “You’re being unraisinable.” and “Let’s use logic and raisin.”
• Line → Lime: As in “But where do you draw the lime?” and “Drop me a lime.”
• Piece of → Pizza: As in “You want a pizza me?” and “That’s a pizza cake.” and “They all want a pizza the action.” and “That’s a fine pizza ass.” and “That’s a pizza piss.” and “He’s a nasty pizza work.” and “How long is a pizza string?” and “I’ll give him a pizza my mind!” and “You’re a real pizza work.” and “Pizza the pie” and “Abbreviated pizza nothing”
• Piece → Peach: As in “Just make sure you get home in one peach.” and “Yeah, he’s a nasty peach of work.”
• Peace → Peas: As in “Peas be with you.” and “Peas of mind.” and “Inner peas.”
• Assault → A salt: As in “He was charged with a salt with a deadly weapon.”
• Wanton → Wonton: As in “This wonton cruelty will not go unpunished!” (Wanton means “deliberate and unprovoked” (also has other meanings), and a wonton is a type of dumpling)
• Wanting → Wonton: As in “You’ve got me wonton more.”
• Me so → Miso: As in “Miso hungry.” and “You make miso happy :)” (Miso is a type of Japanese seasoning)
• Bury → Berry: As in “Don’t berry your feelings.” and “We berried it under that tree.”
• Very → Berry: As in “These are berry bad food puns.”
•  Amazing→ Amaize-ing: As in “Truely amaize-ing.” and “Amaize-ing Grace.” and “I’m amaized!” and “To my utter amaizement …” (Maize is another name for corn)
• Saucy: As in “He was acting a little saucy the other night, no?” and “That’s a very saucy costume you’ve got going there.” (“Saucy” has a few other meanings which could also be punned upon)
• Catch up → Ketchup: As in “C’mon! We need to ketchup with the others!”
• Million → Melon: As in “You’re one in a melon!” and “Not in a melon years!”
• Con* → Corn*: Very corny corn puns can be made with some words that start with the “con” sound (or similar): corntract, corncern, corntain, cornference, corntext, corncerned, corntrast, cornfidence, corndition, corntinue, cornsider, corntry, cornclusion, cornduct, cornversation, cornstruction, cornflict, corntribution, cornsent, cornsist, cornclude, cornservation, corntest, cornception, cornsequences, corsult, corncert, cornventional, corncrete, corntinent, cornfine, cornsistantly, cornstitutional, cornvey, cornsiderably, cornsitituent, corntempt, corncede, cornfess, cornfrontation, corngregation, corntroversial, cornsensus, cornsultancy, cornquest, cornvicted, corngratulate. See this list for more.
• Have a car though → Avocado: As in “I don’t avocado.”
• Have a car don’t → Avocadon’t: As in “You avacadon’t you?”
• I → Pie: As in “Pie am crying as pie write this.”
• How → Chow: As in “Chow could you do this to me?” and “Chow are you feeling?”
• Bit her → Bitter: As in “I think a bug bitter or something.”
• Her before → Herbivore: As in “No, I’ve never met herbivore.”
• Been → Bean: As in “We’ve all bean there.” and “You know, I’ve bean thinking…”
• Pee → Pea: As in “Brb, really need to pea.”
• Can only → Cannoli: As in “We cannoli dream.” (“Cannoli” is a type of sweet Italian pastry)
• Can’t elope → Cantaloupe: As in “I’d run away and marry you, but I cantaloupe – my parents would never forgive me.” (“Cantaloupe” is another name for rockmelon. “Elope” means to run away to get married, usually without parental consent.)
• Antelope → Cantaloupe: As in “My favourite animals are deer and cantaloupe.”
• Deal → Dill: As in “What’s the big dill?” and “I’m kind of a big dill around here.” (“Dill” is a herb, and is often short for dill-pickle – a cucumber that has been preserved and given the flavour of the dill herb)
• Talk about → Taco ’bout: As in “Jeez! Taco ’bout bad puns!” and “I don’t wanna taco ’bout it.”
• Not your → Nacho: As in “It’s nacho problem” and “It’s nachos, it’s mine!”
• Please → Peas: As in “Do as you peas.” and “Pretty peas?”
• Remain → Romaine: “Romaine” is a type of lettuce. Examples: “Everyone romaine calm.” and “It romaines to be seen.”
• To my toes → Tomatoes: As in “I got a shiver from my head tomatoes.”
• Dust → Crust: As in “Another one bites the crust.”
• Brad → Bread: As in “When’s Bread Pitt’s next film coming out?”
• Imposter → Impasta: As in “You’re a liar! An impasta!”
• Roll: As in “We’re on a roll!” and “Ready to roll?” and “She’s a great roll model.” and “Traditional gender rolls are lame.” This could be a play on “bread roll” or other “roll” foods (spring roll, etc.), but it’s subtle.
• Role → Roll: As in, “Whats your roll here?” and “Competing for the same roll.”
• J.K Rowling → J.K Rolling
• *ral* → *roll*: As in, “Rolly (rally) together” and “In generoll” and “Integroll to” and “It’s only naturoll” and “Yes, naturolly” and “Collateroll damage” and “Peripheroll vision” and “Running in parollel.” Other words you could use: liberoll (liberal), moroll (moral), ephemeroll (ephemeral) and visceroll (visceral).
• *rel* → *roll*: As in, “Not rollevant” and “Rollay the information over” and “A huge rollief” and “Newest rollease” and “In a rollationship” and “Not for rolligion” and “In rollation to” and “Showing rolluctance (reluctance)” and “Rollentless effort” and “Monkeys in a barroll” and “Squirrolling away” and “Lover’s quarroll.” Other words you could use: apparoll (apparel), lauroll (laurel), scoundroll (scoundrel), mongroll (mongrel).
• Beat → Beet: As in “Let’s not beet around the bush.” and “If you leave now, you’ll beet the rush.”
• Between → Beetween: As in “Beetween you and me …” and “With your tail beetween your legs.” and “Read beetween the lines.” and “Beetween a rock and a hard place.”
• Bead → Beet: As in “Tiny round beets are dangerous for children.”
• Repeat → Rebeet: As in “I’m not going to rebeet myself.” and “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to rebeet it.” and “I warned him rebeetedly.”
• Love → Loaf: As in “I loaf you <3″ and “The world needs more loaf.”
• Peer → Pear: As in “Don’t give in to pear pressure.” and “Bit-torrent is a a pear-to-pear network.”
• Pair → Pear: As in “A fresh pear of eyes.”
• Per* → Pear*: Words that start with “per” can be made into silly little pear puns: pearformance, pearcentage, peariod, pearmission, pearsonal, pearfect, pearhaps, pearform, pearsuade, pearspective, pearsonality, pearception, pearmanent, pearceived, pearsuaded, pearmanently, pearipheral, pearimeter, pearsist, pearsecution, pearmit, pearpetuate, pearsistance, peariodically, pearvert, pearceptual, pearplexity, pearfectionist, pearpendicular, pearmission. See this list for more.
• Pass the → Pasta: As in “Can you pasta sauce please?”
• Past her → Pasta: As in “I walked right pasta without realising.”
• For → Pho: Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup. Examples: “Pho real??” and “You totally fell pho it!” and “Pho the love of god!”
• You don’t → Udon: As in “Udon know how much you mean to me.” (Udon is a type of Japanese noodle)
• Chilly → Chilli: As in “Goodness it’s chilli today.”
• Fly → Fry: As in “A no-fry zone has been declared by the military.” and “Just a fry on the wall.”
• Corny: As in “Very corny food puns”
• Passed away → Pasta way: As in “She pasta way last night.”
• Tomorrow → Tomato: As in “Here today, gone tomato.”
• Walk → Wok: As in “I’ll be back soon, I’m going to wok the dog.” and “It’ll be a wok in the park.” and “You’re woking on thin ice there, bud.”
• Work → Wok: As in “Wok hard, play hard.” and “It’s a wok in progress.” and “All in a day’s wok.”
• Because → Becouscous: “Why? Becouscous I said so.” (One of the cornier food puns, indeed!)
• Jam: As in “This is my jam!” and “We just finished our jam session.” and “The venue was jam-packed.”
• Rap → Wrap: As in “That was an epic wrap battle.” (Playing on the flat-bread sandwich alternative)
• Fork: As in “We’ve reached a fork in the road.” (There’s also an obvious swear word pun that can be made with fork.)
• Season → Seasoning: As in “Seasoning’s greetings!” and “For everything, there is a seasoning.”
• Thrilled → Grilled: As in “He was so grilled to see you!” and “I’m grilled to bits!”
• Creep → Crepe: As in “That’s a bit crepey, man.” and “Yep, he’s a bit of a crepe.”
• Source → Sauce: As in “That’s an unreliable sauce.” and “You should cite some primary sauces.”
• Sup: This term has a few traditional meaning related to food, including “to eat dinner/supper”, but it also has the obvious slang meaning “What’s up?” Thus we can make a sneaky supper pun, but it’d be very corny and heavily dependent on context: Person1: “‘Sup?” Person2: “What? Now? It’s only 3pm!”
• Graze: This can refer to an injury or to a steady, continual eating style: “Get into a food pun fight with me and you’ll come out grazed.”
• Grub: This can refer to the animal and is slang for food.
• Grab → Grub: As in “Can you grub the mail on your way home?” and “She’s good at grubbing my attention.”
• Not → Nosh: As in “Nosh on my watch.” and “It’s a nosh-for-profit organisation.” (Nosh as a noun refers to food or as a verb to eating greedily)
• Nos* → Nosh*: As in “It was a noshtalgic experience.” and “His noshtrils were flaring.”
• Die yet → Diet: As in “I want to curl and and diet I know I must keep fighting.”
• Gorge: This term can refer to eating greedily or to a narrow, steep valley.
• Gorgeous: As in “Drop dead gorgeous.”
• Panties → Pantries: As in “Don’t get your pantries in a twist!”
• Girl → Grill: As in “You go grill!” and “Grill power!”
• Toast: As well as referring to cooked bread, this term can also refer to the raising of glasses at a gathering to honour something: “Let’s call a toast.” It also has a slang usage: “You are toast.” Meaning “I’m going to beat you” at some competition (or physically).
• Byte → Bite: As in “There must be megabites of potential food puns to be made.”
• Fist → Feast: As in “I’ll rule with an iron feast.”
• Desert → Dessert: As in “It was like an oasis in the middle of the dessert.”
• Chip: As in “A chip off the old block.” and “A chip on his shoulder”
• Arrange → Orange: As in “I’ve oranged an interview for tomorrow evening.”
• A petite → Appetite: Bit of a stretch: “Does this come in appetite-sized version?”
• Sugar: Other than the obvious definition, “sugar” is also used as a term of endearment in some countries for one’s partner (similar to “baby”).
• Sweetie: This is often used as a term of endearment for a loved one, and has an obvious reference to food/sweets.
• Do not → Donut: As in “I donut want to get into a pun battle with you.” and “Donut tempt me.”
• Better → Butter: As in “Margarine is butter because it’s healthier.” and “Butter to stay on the safe side.” and “He’s my butter half.”
• Coarse → Course: As in “Please don’t pun during dinner, Gerald. It’s very course humour.”
• Course: As in “Is there a university course on food puns?” (“Course” can refer to a particular stage of a multi-stage meal.)
• Great → Grape: As in “No challenge is too grape.” and “I’ve gone to grape length to compile these puns.”
• Cater: As in “I can’t cater to your every whim.” and “We need to cater for those who are coming by bus.”
• Staple: As in “Food puns are unfortunately my staple form of humour.” (This is a play on staple as in “staple food“)
• Swallow: “That’s a tough pill to swallow.”
• Pickle: “We’re in a bit of a pickle here.”
• Killing → Kiwing: As in “Oh god these jokes are kiwing me!”
• Bananas: As in “I am bananas for you.” and “He’s going bananas!”
• Celebrate → Celerybrate: As in “Let’s celerybrate!”
• I am → I yam: As in “I yam who I yam.”
• Cold → Crisp: As in “The air is crisp this morning!”
• Jealous → Jelly: As in “You won the raffle?! I’m so jelly!”
• Feed: As in “You’re just feeding people misinformation.”
• Order: “Law and order.” and “These restaurant puns are out of order.”
• Much room → Mushroom: “There isn’t mushroom in here.”
• Bit of (Bit ‘a) → Pita: “Don’t make a blind pita difference.”
• Or you → Oreo: “It doesn’t make a difference whether it’s me oreo.”
• Platter → Plait her: “I love to platter hair – it’s therapeutic.”
• Dip: As in “Take a dip” and “Dip your toe in.” (Playing on the “crackers and dip” form of “dip”)
• Wry → Rye: “A rye smile.” and “With rye Scottish wit.” (Rye is a type of grain used to make bread)
• Come → Crumb: As in “Crumb to think of it…” and “Crumb to your senses” and “Crumb again?” and “Crumb hell or high water.” and “Crumb out of your shell” and “Crumb rain or shine” and “Do you crumb here often?” and “An idea whose time has crumb.” and “The best is yet to crumb.” and “What has crumb over you?”
• So do → Soda: As in “Soda you think it’s a good idea?”
• So de* → Soda*: Words (especially adjectives) beginning with the “de” syllable (or similar) can be made into soda puns: sodapressing (so depressing), sodatermined (so determined), sodafensive (so defensive), sodamanding, sodapendable, sodaspairing, sodalighted, sodapendent, sodascriptive
• Relish: This can refer to the condement called “relish” or to a feeling of great enjoyment: “I relish any opportunity to make a pun about food.”
• Tube of → Tuber: As in “Can I please purchase a tuber hand cream?”
• Stuff→ Stove: As in “Don’t sweat the small stove.” and “It’s the stove of legends/dreams.” (This one is a stretch!)
• Take out→ Take-out: As in “I had to take-out my phone to check the time.” and “I had to take-out a loan just to pay the bill!”
• Salsa: This can refer to a type of spicy tomato sauce, but also to the Latin American dance music and dance style.
• Ugly→ Ugli: As in “Ugli duckling.” and “This person has an ugli heart.” (Ugli is a type of fruit)
• Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.”
• Okay→ Okra: As in “Are you feeling okra?” (Terrible! 😀 By the way, okra is a plant the has edible green pods, if you didn’t know)

Food-Related Phrases

Common phrases, idioms and cliches which are related to food can be used for some subtle and witty word play. Here is a list of the food themed phrases that we’ve found so far:

Food-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 food-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!

dine, ingest, ate, gobble, devour, taste, sup, graze, forage, chow, tucker, grub, morsel, nosh, munch, munchies, diet, gorge, serving, serve, menu, larder, pantry, appetite, grill, perishable, famine, delicacy, voracious, scoff, fast, fasting, nutrition, rice, nutrient, provender, victuals, cooking, cook, pabulum, cereal, drink, fat, soup, nourishment, agriculture, pasta, feed, sustenance, meal, milk, wheat, ingredients, sushi, hunger, hungry, sugar, maize, plant, vegetarian, vegan, protein, vegetable, potato, vitamin, bitter, foodstuff, consumption, consume, salt, saltiness, edible, salad, soul food, junk food, produce, fruit, restaurant, chocolate, coconut, breakfast, dinner, lunch, bread, foody, eat, kitchen, nuts, nut, baking, baked goods, food industry, food safety, pizza, meal, crops, fast food, supermarket, taste, mineral, loaf, carbohydrate, legume, bean, pea, lentil, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, lasagna, asparagus, cuisine, bean, tomato, pumpkin, eggplant, carrot, repast, onion, spinach, spaghetti, eating, brunch, snack, grain, luncheon, sweets, sweet, macaroni, porridge, omnivore, omnivorous, herbivore, herbivorous, celery, burrito, garlic, saliva, salivation, plate, bowl, over-eat, over-feed, farming, spoon, fork, spork, grocer, break bread, tofu, soy, fry, stew, curry, sandwich, jam, cake, apple, toast, bite, canteen, chew, dish, feast, pudding, savoury, dessert, belly, satiated, chips, glutton, grub, biscuit, peanut, grocery store, soup kitchen, digestion, garnish, roast, ration, raw, refreshment, famish, succulent, tasty, delicious, scrumptious, delectable, oatmeal, airplane food, dietary, ambrosia, appetite, bland, tin can, pepper, saute, nibble, underfed, gourmet, bbq, barbecue, spicy, staple, picnic, topping, risotto, mash, stir-fry, calories, obese, obesity, digestible, recipe, catering, coarse, starve, starving, cinnamon, caloric, wolfish, snacky, swallow, greasy, rapacious, engorge, glutton, gluttonous, banquet, dinnertime, supper, eat up, fried, overindulge, pick at, binge, gobbler, eats, tofurkey, foodtography, bagel, uneaten, perishable, taco, supermarket, brainfood, stomach, napkin, buffet, thanksgiving, dishes, olive, tomato, radish, jello, peas, romaine, crust, slice, pickle, dill, peach, orange, kiwi fruit, maize, berry, ketchup, sauce, spice, butter, cannoli, mint, date, fig, jalapeno, avocado, wonton, papaya, banana, hash brown, sweet potato, kidney bean, bread roll, roll, donut, melon, caramel, cauliflower, pear, pretzel, peal, gnocchi, brown rice, french fries, flavour, grape, appetiser, boil, bran, chick peas, cookbook, cloves, crisp, gravy, jelly, mushroom, oven, order, pot, salsa, dip, refrigerator, relish, rhubarb, rye, spatula, syrup, stove, take-out, wasabi, walnut, wok, yeast, vanilla, vinegar, utensil, toaster, slaw, coleslaw, mayonnaise, sesame seeds, zucchini.

Food Jokes

If you’re looking for some very corny food jokes, you’ve come to the right place. All of these one-liner-style food jokes use puns in their punchline. Some are phonetic puns, others are based on a slang phrase or cliche related to food.

• What did the baby corn say to its mamma corn? – Where’s my pop corn?
• Did you hear the joke about the peanut butter? – I’m not telling you. You might spread it!
• Waiter, will my pizza be long? – No sir, it will be round.
• Why couldn’t the sesame seed leave the gambling casino? – Because he was on a roll.
• What do you call a fake noodle? – An impasta.
• Why doesn’t bread like warm weather? – Because things get toasty
• Did you hear about that famous Italian chef who died?  – Yeah, he pasta way.
• Waiter, this food taste’s kind of funny… – Then why aren’t you laughing!
• Why did the banana go to the doctor? – Because it wasn’t peeling well!
• What are the twins’ favourite fruit? – Pears!
• What do you call a peanut in a space suit? – An astronut!
• What does a nosey pepper do?– Gets jalapeno business!
• Why did the students eat their homework? – Because the teacher said it was a piece of cake.
• Why did the tomato blush? – Because it saw the salad dressing!
• What do you call the king of the vegetables? – Elvis Parsley

Food Pun Images

Below is a collection of food-related visual puns and meme-type images. If you’ve created your own visual food puns or found one that we’ve missed, please post us a link in the comments section 🙂

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