50 Food Puns To Dish Out When You’re Hungry For Laughs

What's Adele's favorite dessert? Jello from the other side!

By Maria Monrovia

Updated 10 months ago, January 12, 2024

We’ve cooked up some a-peeling food puns for when you’re starving for a laugh!

Trust me, they’ll fill you up with mirth. Add your own food puns in the comments!

1. What does a nosy pepper do?

Get jalapeño business!

2. What did the pickle say to his fans?

I’m kind of a big dill!

3. Why did the condiment go to jail?

A salt with a deadly weapon!

4. What’s a dessert’s favorite actor?

Robert Brownie, Jr!

5. What’s a foodie’s favorite country?

Veit-nom!

6. What did 50 Cent say on National Ice Cream Day?

Go shawty, it’s sherbert day!

7. What do you call a flirty macaroni?

Mackin’ cheese!

8. What did the fruit say to the vegetable?

Bitch, peas!

9. What’s a fruit’s favorite pick up line?

This may sound bananas, but I find you appealing!

10. What’s Adele’s favorite dessert?

Jello from the other side!

11. What did the DJ say at the dinner party?

Lettuce turnip the beat!

12. What’s a foodie’s favorite book?

The lunch-back of Notre Dame!

13. What did the pig say to his lover?

Don’t go bacon my heart.

14. What’s a pepper’s favorite song?

Spice spice baby!

15. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?

Nacho cheese!

16. What did the baby corn say to its mom?

Where’s my pop corn?

17. Why couldn’t the sesame seed leave the casino?

He was on a roll!

18. What do you call a fake noodle?

An im-pasta!

19. Why don’t eggs tell jokes?

They’d crack each other up!

20. What did the mushroom say when he wasn’t allowed in the bar?

“Why not? I’m a fun-gi!”

21. Why was the tomato blushing?

It saw the salad dressing!

22. What’s an egg’s least favorite day of the week?

Fry-day!

23. Did you hear the joke about the peanut butter?

I’m not telling you. You might spread it!

24. Why do the French eat snails?

Because they don’t like fast food!

25. What kind of nut always seems to have a cold?

Cashews!

26. Why did the banana go to the doctor?

It wasn’t peeling well!

27. How do you make a walnut laugh?

Crack it up!

28. Why did the egg regret being an omelet?

It wasn’t all it cracked up to be!

29. Why shouldn’t you commit a crime on a farm?

Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn has ears!

30. Why do peppers hate winter?

They get a little chili.

31. How do you make a milkshake?

Give it a good scare!

32. What kind of lettuce has killed the most people?

Iceberg!

33. How do Italians say goodbye?

Pasta la vista, baby!

34. What happens when fruits die?

They get berried!

35. What did the hotdog say to the bun?

It was nice to meat you!

36. What’s a potato’s worst enemy?

Darth Tater!

37. What’s a foodie’s favorite TV show?

Breaking Bread!

38. What did the mom say when her kid dropped their hotdog?

It could always be wurst!

39. What do you call cheese that’s gone crazy?

Out of it’s rind!

40. How do eggs show affection?

They shower each other with quiches!

41. What do you call a spacey drink?

Absinth-minded!

42. What makes lettuce so special?

Nothing, it’s just arugula vegetable!

43. Why did the girl quit her job at the doughnut company?

She was fed up with the hole business!

44. Why did the butcher work extra hours?

To make ends meat!

45. What do you call friends you meet at culinary school?

Taste buds!

46. What’s a fruit’s favorite celebrity?

Melon Degeneres!

47. What did Taylor Swift say to the melon?

Look what you made me dew!

48. What did the bread say to the butter?

You’re my butter half!

49. What do you say to a herb that’s running late?

It’s about thyme!

50. What do you call a good corn harvest?

Polenta to go around!

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