Food Riddles

What do you get when you cross a chicken and a pig?

What food has no beginning, end, or middle?

Grown in the ground, it's taller than you. Strip off the outside, the yellow pieces you chew. What is it?

Gold in a leather bag, swinging on a tree,
money after honey in its time.
Ills of a scurvy crew cured by the sea,
reason in its season but no rhyme.

I am edible, pink, and a great summer food. What am I?

I am sometimes referred to as chips. What am I?

What dish consists of tortilla chips smothered in cheese?

This Mexican dish is a type of flatbread made of crushed flour or cornmeal and is cooked and then enjoyed hot or cold. It is used especially in making quesadillas.

I consist mostly of lettuce, along with a variety of other veggies. Ranch is one of my popular dressings. What am I?

What traps a star in its belly but can be held in your hand?

I'm a food made of flour, water, and yeast or another leavening agent, mixed together and baked. You need me to make a sandwich.

If you're on a diet, smelling a fresh pan of brownies could be described as this.

This is variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes, often mixed with cheese powder.

I'm a flat circular spongy roll made from yeast dough and eaten toasted and buttered.

I am a candy that looks like a shepherd's staff. What am I?

I can be sweet or sour. I do not rhyme with any other word. What am I?

Edible items purchased in large quantities.

If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?

I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?

We are a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin that is often sweet or tart in taste. What are we?

For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy sticks.

This type of tempting cuisine is independent of utensils and usually tastes better than it sounds.

This is a baked snack that is traditionally twisted into a unique knot-like shape.

What is the saddest fruit?

A standard dimension for sandwiches and rulers.

It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?

Santa shakes his belly like me. What am I?

This dish is defined as small pasta envelopes containing ground meat, cheese, or vegetables.

I'm very tempting, so it's said,
I have a shiny coat of red,
and my flesh is white beneath.
I smell so sweet, taste good to eat,
and help to guard your teeth.

I am a fruit with seeds on the outside. What am I?

Come November 1st, many of these will be found smashed on sidewalks.

This large green melon has red pulp inside and watery juice. Best enjoyed cold on a hot summer day.

I'm red but I can be green at times and I am even yellow. What am I?

This veggie is characterized of long stalks or shoots taken from the plant. They have a strong odor when cooked and can influence the color or urine.

My first is snapping, snarling, growling,
My second's industrious, romping, and prowling.
Higgledy piggledy Here we lie,
picked and plucked, and put in a pie.

This is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce.

I wear a green jacket on the outside, white jacket as a second layer, and a red jacket inside. I am pregnant with a lot of babies. What am I?

I am a shiny metal sheet that covers BBQ food. What am I?

A colorful cuisine without flesh.

This is meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked, often enjoyed in a sandwich.

I'm a type of pizza that is folded in half before cooking to contain a filling.

The warmer I am, The fresher I am.

Despite having long teeth, every bit of food it grabs gets taken from it.

Kids love this bouncy, sugary, treat. It's like colorful rubber that you can eat.

This small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red, is often served on top of whipped cream on a milk shake.

This is the main ingredient in spaghetti and Mac-N-Cheese.

I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.

This type of corn swells up and bursts into a crisp puff when heated.

This greek dish is similar to a taco or pita sandwich in appearance. It is made with a fatty meat in a taco shell shaped flatbread with tomatoes, lettuce and other veggies.

I come out of the earth, I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my tail, takes off my suit of silk, and weeps beside me when I am dead.

What is this Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla rolled around a filling, typically of beans or ground or shredded beef?

What do you call a witch that lives in the sand?

This type of food, which is a fungus, is often served on supreme pizza, in spaghetti and in a particular "cream of" style soup.

I'm a green veggie that looks like a tiny tree.

This is a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large pit in the center. It is most used in guacamole dip.

What kind of dog has no tail?

I have five letters and people eat me. When you remove my first letter I become a crime. Remove my first two letters and I am an animal. If you remove my first and last letters I'm a form of music.

Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.

It nukes food at the touch of a button.

It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh.

Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two well known varieties of this kind of food.

I'm strangely capricious, I'm sour or I'm sweet,
To housewives am useful, to children a treat;
Yet I freely confess I more mischief have done,
Than anything else That is under the sun.

Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried.

Though it be cold, I wear no clothes, the frost and snow I never fear; I value neither shoes nor hose, And yet I wander far and near: My diet is forever good, I drink no cider, port, nor sack, what Providence doth send for food, I neither buy, nor sell, nor lack.

What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

I'm a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked and eaten fried, such as french fries.

What is common to eat before it's born and after it's dead?

Delicious but said to be a lie.

My flavors ranges from strawberry to toe. What am I?

I am a food with 5 letters. If you remove the first letter I am a form of energy. Remove two and I'm needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me down. What am I?

Consuming food would be pretty tough without these chompers.

Where do cows go to dance?

I'm a soft frozen food made with sweetened and flavored milk fat. I'm usually put in a waffle cone.

One of the few vegetables that is routinely consumed with marshmallows.

This dish is hot frankfurter served in a long, soft roll and typically topped with various condiments. Often served with hamburgers.

I'm a small ring shaped fried cake, often with bavarian cream or fruit filling, and sometimes covered in icing and sprinkles.

Something we eat, and misspell as meet.

Give it a toss, and it's ready, but not until it's dressed. What is it?

It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?

This food is a white meat, that often goes with salad. It's poultry.

I'm a ring of sliced onion dipped in batter and then deep fried.

There was a little heart inside a little white house, which was inside a little yellow house, which was inside a little brown house, which was inside a little green house.

A time when they're green. A time when they're brown.
But both of these times, cause me to frown.
But just in between, for a very short while.
They're perfect and yellow. And cause me to smile.

The sun bakes them,
The hand breaks them,
The foot treads them,
The mouth tastes them.

An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?

Lynn likes grapes but not potatoes. She likes squash but not lettuce, and she likes peas but not onions. Following the same rule, will she like pumpkins or apples?

A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three. Break the walls, eat the borders, then throw away me. What am I?

Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I?

Sometimes I am light, sometimes I am dark. What am I?

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?

It is sharp but not pepper; white but not paper; green but not shaddock. What am I?

A fruit on a tree. A tree on a fruit.

I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat. What am I?

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string,
If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.

Alight or in dark, my face is a leer.
In a field with my brothers, you'll find me without bother,
For that autumn day is mine.

A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?

I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain. If you remove my first 2 letters I wear things down. Removing my first 3 letters is an adjective and removing my first 4 letters leaves a measure of time. What am I?

What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?

I ate one and threw away two.