115 Funny Food Riddles (To Serve Up A Taste of Laughter) 2024
Food Riddles will tickle your taste buds and your funny bones! In addition to being fun, riddles improve cognitive skills, enrich vocabulary, and boost creativity.
Ask food riddles:
- In the car
- While waiting in line
- At family meals
- In the classroom
- For lifting moods and relieving stress (source)
Easy Food Riddles With Answers
1. I have ears but I cannot hear. What am I?
2. If you take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you may! What am I?
3. Most people eat me, and that is no surprise. I taste great as chips and also as fries. What am I?
4. I’m an orange squash that is baked in a pie. What am I?
5. Sweet, sour, tart, and sugary, you can see me in every store and pantry. What am I?
6. You’ll find me in a bee, in a comb, and in cakes. What am I?
7. I am a container without hinges, lock, or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?
8. I am a dog with no tail. What am I?
9. I am what mummies like to eat for lunch instead of sandwiches.
10. I am a dog that has lots of ears. What am I?
11. I am a drink that loves an earthquake. What am I?
12. What dessert loves to yell and shout?
13. What kind of room can you eat?
14. What fruit can you use to sip water?
15. What kind of dessert makes the best chef?
16. What is the tastiest kind of sand?
17. I am a scared food that tries to run away. What am I?
18. What food do you eat on the playground?
19. I have feathers, a beak, and I am dressed on Thanksgiving. What am I?
20. I am warm and hot, a drink that is sweet. Add marshmallows and enjoy this wonderful treat. What am I?
21. I am striped red and white, the candy of Christmas time and a kids’ delight. What am I?
22. I am a math teacher’s favorite dessert. What am I?
23. I am the favorite bread of elves. What am I?
24. I can be mashed and used as a dip, or put on salads and sandwiches to make them more hip. What am I?
25. I taught you how to remember the first letter of the alphabet. When you bite into me I’m crunchy and sweet. What am I?
See: Food & Drink Trivia and Kids’ Trivia Questions
Food Picture Riddles
Use the picture puzzles to get the food.
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‘What Am I’ Food Riddles
50. I am something yellow but not a light. I am a citrus fruit that’s a flavor in Sprite. What am I?
Answer: A lemon.
51. I am a cross between a computer and a dairy product. What am I?
Answer: Mac and cheese
52. I am a fruit that is always sad. What am I?
A blueberry.
53. You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon!
54. I am useless when together but useful when I am broken apart. What am I?
Answer: An egg
55. I have many eyes but can’t see. What am I?
Answer: A potato.
56. I am what you eat to get rich. What am I?
Answer: A fortune cookie.
57. You throw away my outside, eat my inside, then throw away the inside. What am I?
Answer: Corn on the cob
58. I have no beginning, end, or middle. What am I?
Answer: A donut.
59. I am a type of bean that won’t grow in your garden. What am I?
Answer: Jelly beans (See Easter Riddles too)
60. I am the wealthiest nut. What am I?
Answer: Cashew
61. I am the meanest of all foods. It takes all of your might to tear me apart. What am I?
Answer: Jerky
62. I am a cake made of a cow. What am I?
Answer: Meat Loaf
63. I am a key that can fly and gobble but can’t open a door. What am I?
Answer: A turkey
64. I can be red or green and I grow on a vine. I’m dried to make raisins or squeezed to make wine. What am I?
Answer: Grapes
65. I’m wrinkled and people treat me differently. They chew me or pick me out to throw away. What am I?
Answer: A raisin
66. I try my best to keep up with barbecue sauce and mustard. What am I?
Answer: Ketchup
67. I come as a small grain, but not sugar or sand. You use me when cooking so that your food doesn’t taste bland. What am I?
Answer: Salt
68. I give you meat you love to eat when you dine. From me comes tasty bacon. I’m also known as a swine. What am I?
Answer: A pig
69. I am the worst vegetable to have on a ship. What am I?
Answer: A Leek!
70. You can use me to fix a broken pizza. What am I?
Answer: Tomato paste
71. I am a type of cup that cannot hold water. What am I?
Answer: Cupcake
72. I appear green yet open red. What you eat is crimson, although what you expel is black. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon
73. I am a stick imprisoned on the inside of a tasty ball. What am I?
Answer: A lollipop
74. I am a stick on occasion, although I am not a tree. I am good on toast and am a dairy product. What am I?
Answer: Butter
See more ‘What Am I’ Riddles and Answers.
Fruit and Vegetable Riddles
75. I am an orange vegetable with the best flavor when scraped. What am I?
Answer: A carrot
76. I am the most loving vegetable because I’m all heart. What am I?
Answer: Lettuce
77. I am the sweetest and most romantic fruit. What am I?
Answer: Honeydew
78. I am a bird, a fruit, and a person. What am I?
Answer: A Kiwi
79. I am a fruit that never wants to be alone. What am I?
Answer: A Pear
80. I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat. What am I?
Answer: A cherry
81. I am a fruit with seeds on the outside. What am I?
Answer: A strawberry.
82. I am orange and sound like a parrot. What am I?
Answer: A carrot
83. What vegetable always loses in every competition, yet is a terrific rapper?
Answer: Beets
84. I am a fruit named like a celebrity. What am I?
Answer: A Star fruit
85. What fruit is friendly and likes to meet people?
Answer: A date
86. What vegetable grows eggs?
Answer: Eggplant
87. What is the most deceitful and dishonest fruit?
Answer: Lychee
88. In what vegetable do you find all sorts of animals?
Answer: Zucchini
89. What fruit loves to go crazy and wild?
Answer: Bananas
90. What is the coolest and most awesome of all the vegetables?
Answer: Rad-ish
91. I am the father of all fruits. What am I?
Answer: Papaya
92. I am the kind of vegetable you get when an elephant walks through your garden. What am I?
Answer: Squash
93. What kind of fruit do computer nerds love the most?
Answer: Macintosh apples
94. I’m fuzzy on the outside and sweet on the inside. I have a pit that you’ll need to set aside. What am I?
Answer: A Peach
95. I’m a bell that you can’t ring. I sound hot but I’m not. What am I?
Answer: A bell pepper.
96. You may have to call 911 because of this vegetable. What is it?
Answer: Arti-choke
97. I am a small fruit that comes in a variety of colors. I have a hard pit inside of me and I rhyme with hum. What am I?
Answer: Plum
98. I am a crunchy vegetable with a lot of vitamin C. Some people think that I look like a little tree. What am I?
Answer: Broccoli
99. I am a fruit on a tree and a tree on a fruit. What am I?
Answer: Pineapple
100. My name is the opposite of woman and the opposite of stop. What am I?
Answer: Mango
Games to Play:
Hard Food Riddles For Kids & Adults
Try out these harder food riddles!
101. I am fun to be around. Everyone wants to hang out with me. What am I?
Answer: Fungi
102. I am a fruit that must have a large wedding. What am I?
Answer: Cantaloupe
103. What kind of food does the baby chicken make when it goes to the bathroom?
Answer: Chickpeas
104. I am what golfers drink. What am I?
Answer: Tea
105. I am the vegetable that people look forward to getting every month. What am I?
Answer: Celery (Salary)
106. What fruit likes to drink alcohol?
Answer: Fruit cocktail
107. What kind of food is always tardy?
Answer: Choco-late
108. What do you call the father of all sodas?
Answer: Pop
109. I am a delicious way to represent data. What am I?
Answer: A pie chart
110. What can provide food before it’s alive, while it’s alive, and after it’s dead?
Answer: Chicken
111. I am a popular warm beverage that could be considered sad. What am I?
Answer: Apple sigh-der
112. I am a food that is always eaten by the wrong person. What am I?
Answer: Nachos
113. Farmer Brown arrived in the town with a load of watermelons.
He sold half of them, as well as half a melon.
And discovered that he only had one entire melon left.
How many melons was he carrying with him to town?
Answer: Three melons.
114. I’m a seed with three letters in my name. If you take away the last two, I’d stay the same. What am I?
Answer: A pea
115. Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat
What’s Next?
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