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What is this Mexican dish consisting of a fried folded tortilla, filled with various mixtures, such as seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomato?
A taco is a fried, folded tortilla filled with seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomato - a Mexican classic.
What has a green top, red on its belly, seeds on the outside, and tastes great in jelly?
A strawberry has a green leafy top, red flesh, seeds dotting its outer surface, and is a popular jelly flavor.
A breakfast food that is cracked from white shells and is often scrambled. Usually served with bacon, sausage, toast or pancakes.
Eggs are cracked from shells and commonly scrambled for breakfast alongside bacon or toast.
Squeeze it and it cries tears. As red as its flesh, but its heart is made of stone.
A cherry is red inside and out, releases juice ('tears') when squeezed, and has a hard pit ('heart of stone').
This is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice sushi-meshi combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood.
Sushi is vinegared rice combined with other ingredients, most often raw fish or seafood, a hallmark of Japanese cuisine.
This food is a staple for households worldwide. Its definition is: An edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants.
Beans are kidney-shaped edible seeds that grow in long pods on leguminous plants, a worldwide dietary staple.
A container holding water but not a cup. If you want to find me, look up. What am I?
A coconut holds coconut water inside and grows high up in palm trees, so you must look up to find one.
I am enjoyed with a pot and some pointy sticks. What am I?
Fondue is a melted-cheese or chocolate dish traditionally eaten by dipping food on long skewers into a shared pot.
I'm a pie, but I come with peperoni and cheese.
Pizza is often nicknamed a 'pie,' especially when topped with pepperoni and cheese.
What screams when put in a pot of boiling water?
Lobsters are jokingly said to 'scream' from the sound released when their shells hit boiling water, though they can't actually vocalize.
I am rubber you can eat. What am I?
Jelly-type candy (like gelatin-based sweets) has a soft, rubbery texture, but unlike real rubber, you can eat it.
This dish is usually consumed at breakfast time with milk.
Cereal is a classic breakfast food poured into a bowl with milk.
I'm a small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp. I come in a variety of flavors from chocolate chip to oatmeal raisin.
A round, flat, crisp treat that comes in flavors like chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin is simply a cookie.
Famous for cheese, wine and saying "ooo la la".
France (the French) is renowned worldwide for its cheese, wine, and the playful exclamation 'ooh la la.'
I consist of several parts. Two slices of bread, usually cheese and some kind of lunch meat. What am I?
A sandwich is typically built from two slices of bread with cheese and deli meat layered between them.
This Cajun dish of rice with shrimp, chicken, and vegetables, is often enjoyed with cornbread.
Jambalaya is a classic Louisiana Cajun rice dish typically made with meat, seafood, and vegetables.
If it weren't for these, no one would be aware of Idaho's existence.
Idaho is famously known as 'The Potato State,' and its potato crop is what gives the state its widespread recognition.
A toasty and crunchy cereal would be pointless without this spice.
This points to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, which depends on cinnamon for its signature flavor.
You throw away my outside, you cook my inside. Then you eat my outside and you throw away my inside. What am I?
Corn on the cob has an outer husk you discard, and after cooking, you eat the kernels off the cob before tossing the cob itself.
Green on the outside but red and black inside. I am food but mostly liquid. What am I?
A watermelon has green skin outside, with red juicy flesh and black seeds inside, and it's mostly water.
What do you get when you cross a chicken and a pig?
This joke plays on the idea that crossing a chicken (which gives eggs) with a pig (which gives bacon) gives you a full breakfast: eggs and bacon.
What food has no beginning, end, or middle?
A donut is a ring-shaped food with a hole in the center, so it has no true beginning, end, or middle.
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.
An orange hangs on a tree in its golden peel, was once traded for good money, and its vitamin C famously cured sailors of scurvy -- and notoriously, "orange" is one of the few English words with no true rhyme.
I am edible, pink, and a great summer food. What am I?
A peach has soft pink-blushed skin and is a favorite refreshing fruit during the summer months.
I am sometimes referred to as chips. What am I?
In British English, what Americans call "french fries" are commonly called "chips."
What dish consists of tortilla chips smothered in cheese?
Nachos are the classic Tex-Mex snack of tortilla chips loaded with melted cheese and toppings.
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.
A tortilla is a flatbread of ground corn or flour cooked on a griddle, the base ingredient for quesadillas whether served warm or cold.
I consist mostly of lettuce, along with a variety of other veggies. Ranch is one of my popular dressings. What am I?
A salad is built mainly from lettuce and other vegetables, often finished off with a dressing like ranch.
What traps a star in its belly but can be held in your hand?
Slicing an apple crosswise reveals a star-shaped pattern formed by its seeds, hidden inside a fruit small enough to hold.
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.
Bread is made from flour, water, and a leavening agent like yeast, and it's the essential base of any sandwich.
If you're on a diet, smelling a fresh pan of brownies could be described as this.
For someone trying to avoid sweets, the smell of fresh brownies they can't eat feels like pure torture.
This is variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes, often mixed with cheese powder.
Macaroni is the small curved tube pasta most famously paired with powdered cheese in boxed mac and cheese.
I'm a flat circular spongy roll made from yeast dough and eaten toasted and buttered.
An English muffin is a round, spongy yeast bread that's typically split, toasted, and buttered.
I am a candy that looks like a shepherd's staff. What am I?
A candy cane is curved at the top just like a shepherd's traditional crook-shaped staff.
I can be sweet or sour. I do not rhyme with any other word. What am I?
'Orange' famously has no perfect rhyme in the English language, and the fruit itself can taste sweet or tart.
Edible items purchased in large quantities.
'Groceries' refers to the food items typically bought together in quantity at a store.
If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?
Peeling and cutting an onion releases irritating compounds that make the person cutting it cry, though the onion itself obviously doesn't.
I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
A head of lettuce has a dense 'heart' at its center and leafy layers, but no woody stem or blood like an animal.
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?
This describes peaches precisely: round stone fruit with fuzzy pinkish-yellow skin and juicy flesh.
For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy sticks.
Fondue involves a shared pot of melted cheese or chocolate, and diners use long pointed forks ("sticks") to dip food into it.
This type of tempting cuisine is independent of utensils and usually tastes better than it sounds.
Finger food is eaten by hand without any utensils, and dishes with unassuming names (like "pigs in a blanket") often taste better than their description suggests.
What is the saddest fruit?
This is a pun on "blue," a common word for feeling sad, paired with "berry."
A standard dimension for sandwiches and rulers.
'Footlong' describes both a foot-long sandwich, like a hot dog, and the 12-inch length marked on a ruler.
Santa shakes his belly like me. What am I?
The classic description of Santa's belly — 'like a bowl full of jelly' — comes straight from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.'
This dish is defined as small pasta envelopes containing ground meat, cheese, or vegetables.
Ravioli are small pockets of pasta stuffed with fillings like 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.
A shiny red apple, white-fleshed and sweet-smelling beneath its skin, is famously said to help keep the dentist away and protect your teeth.
I am a fruit with seeds on the outside. What am I?
Strawberries are unusual among fruits because their tiny seeds are visible dotting the outside of the flesh, not hidden inside.
Come November 1st, many of these will be found smashed on sidewalks.
After Halloween on October 31st, carved jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are commonly found smashed on sidewalks the next morning.
This large green melon has red pulp inside and watery juice. Best enjoyed cold on a hot summer day.
This describes a watermelon exactly: green rind, red juicy flesh, and a favorite cold summer treat.
I'm red but I can be green at times and I am even yellow. What am I?
Apples commonly come in red, green, and yellow varieties.
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.
Asparagus grows as long green stalks, has a distinctive smell when cooked, and is well known for changing the smell (and per this riddle, color) of urine after eating it.
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 charade combines "cur" (a snarling mongrel dog) with "ants" (industrious, scurrying insects) to spell "currants" -- small dried fruits picked and baked into a pie.
This is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce.
Despite the name "baked beans," the dish is typically simmered or stewed on a stovetop rather than actually baked.
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?
A watermelon's green rind, white inner layer, and red flesh studded with seeds ('babies') match this riddle's colorful, layered description perfectly.
I am a shiny metal sheet that covers BBQ food. What am I?
Aluminum foil is the shiny metal sheet commonly used to wrap and cover food on a grill or BBQ.
A colorful cuisine without flesh.
Vegetarian cooking is built around colorful vegetables, fruits, and grains, deliberately excluding any meat ("flesh").
This is meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked, often enjoyed in a sandwich.
Ham comes from the pig's hind leg, cured by salting or smoking.
I'm a type of pizza that is folded in half before cooking to contain a filling.
A calzone is essentially pizza dough folded over its filling into a half-moon shape before baking.
The warmer I am, The fresher I am.
Bread is at its freshest right when it comes warm out of the oven, and it grows staler as it cools.
Despite having long teeth, every bit of food it grabs gets taken from it.
A fork has long "teeth" (tines) that spear food, but the food is always lifted away to the mouth, never kept by the fork itself.
Kids love this bouncy, sugary, treat. It's like colorful rubber that you can eat.
The answer given is jello, whose wobbly, rubbery texture and bright colors match the clue, though the description of being especially "bouncy" fits chewy gummy candy even more closely.
This small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red, is often served on top of whipped cream on a milk shake.
A cherry is a small round stone (pit-containing) fruit, usually bright or dark red, classically placed on top of whipped cream as a garnish.
This is the main ingredient in spaghetti and Mac-N-Cheese.
Both spaghetti and macaroni and cheese are built around pasta as their core ingredient.
I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
This precisely describes a banana: curved, grown in bunches, with soft flesh and yellow ripe skin.
This type of corn swells up and bursts into a crisp puff when heated.
Popcorn kernels have a hard outer shell that traps moisture, causing them to burst into fluffy puffs 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.
A gyro wraps seasoned, fatty meat in warm flatbread with tomato, lettuce, and other toppings, much like a taco or pita sandwich.
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.
An onion is dug from the earth and sold at market; preparing it means trimming its root 'tail,' peeling off its papery 'silk' skin, and shedding tears while cutting it.
What is this Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla rolled around a filling, typically of beans or ground or shredded beef?
A burrito is exactly a rolled tortilla filled with beans, meat, or other ingredients, unlike a taco (folded, not rolled) or enchilada (usually covered in sauce).
What do you call a witch that lives in the sand?
This is a pun combining "sand" and "witch" to form the word "sandwich."
This type of food, which is a fungus, is often served on supreme pizza, in spaghetti and in a particular "cream of" style soup.
Mushrooms are a fungus commonly found as a pizza topping, in pasta sauces, and in cream of mushroom soup.
I'm a green veggie that looks like a tiny tree.
Broccoli's stalk-and-florets shape is famously described as looking like a miniature 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.
The avocado's rough, leathery green skin, buttery flesh, and large central pit make it the key ingredient in guacamole.
What kind of dog has no tail?
A hot dog is a sausage in a bun, not a real animal, so it never had a tail to begin with.
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.
Removing GRAPE's first letter leaves RAPE (a crime), removing the first two leaves APE (an animal), and removing both the first and last letters leaves RAP, a form of music.
Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.
An orange is picked from the tree, peeled apart, its juicy 'flesh' eaten and sweet juice ('blood') drunk, and its peel ('skin') thrown away.
It nukes food at the touch of a button.
A microwave oven heats food quickly using radiation, colloquially called 'nuking' your food, at the press 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.
Lettuce wilts quickly and is really only sold and eaten fresh, unlike most produce that can be frozen or canned.
Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two well known varieties of this kind of food.
Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two classic, well-known varieties of canned soup.
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.
An apple can be tart or sweet, is baked into pies for households everywhere, and myth and legend (from Eden to the poisoned apple) have long blamed it for causing plenty of mischief.
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.
The source's answer key lists 'fish' here, though this classic English riddle (no clothes, immune to frost, wandering far and near, living on whatever providence sends) is traditionally solved as a wild bird - we keep the source's stated answer as instructed while noting the weaker fit.
What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
This is a pun: a carrot is orange in color, and 'carrot' sounds almost exactly like 'parrot.'
I'm a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked and eaten fried, such as french fries.
The potato is a starchy tuber famously fried into french fries, making it one of the world's most important crops.
What is common to eat before it's born and after it's dead?
You can eat a chicken egg before the chick is born, and you eat chicken meat only after the bird has died.
Delicious but said to be a lie.
This plays on the video game Portal's famous line "the cake is a lie" -- cake is delicious, yet notoriously said not to be real in that context.
My flavors ranges from strawberry to toe. What am I?
Fruit jam comes in flavors like strawberry, and 'toe jam' is slang for the grime that collects between toes -- a gross pun on the word 'jam.'
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?
Dropping WHEAT's first letter leaves HEAT (a form of energy); dropping the first two leaves EAT (needed to live); and scrambling the last three letters, E-A-T, spells TEA, something you drink.
Consuming food would be pretty tough without these chompers.
Teeth are the chompers that let us bite and chew food; without them eating solid food is very difficult.
Where do cows go to dance?
This is a pun on 'the meat ball' sounding like a fancy dance ('the ball'), tied to cows being a source of meat.
I'm a soft frozen food made with sweetened and flavored milk fat. I'm usually put in a waffle cone.
The description of sweetened, flavored frozen milk fat served in a waffle cone is a straightforward description of ice cream.
One of the few vegetables that is routinely consumed with marshmallows.
Candied yams (or sweet potatoes) topped with marshmallows are a classic Thanksgiving side dish.
This dish is hot frankfurter served in a long, soft roll and typically topped with various condiments. Often served with hamburgers.
A hot dog is a grilled frankfurter tucked into a soft bun and topped with condiments, a cookout staple usually served right alongside hamburgers.
I'm a small ring shaped fried cake, often with bavarian cream or fruit filling, and sometimes covered in icing and sprinkles.
The description of a fried, ring-shaped cake with cream, fruit filling, or icing matches a classic donut.
Something we eat, and misspell as meet.
'Meat' (food) and 'meet' (to encounter) are homophones that are commonly confused in spelling.
This food is a white meat, that often goes with salad. It's poultry.
Chicken, specifically the breast, is a common white poultry meat often added to salads.
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 walnut grows wrapped in a green husk, inside a hard brown shell, under a thin papery skin, around a heart-shaped kernel at its center - nested 'houses' within houses.
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.
Bananas are unripe and green too early, then brown and mushy too late, with only a brief perfect yellow window in between that makes them worth smiling about.
A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three. Break the walls, eat the borders, then throw away me. What am I?
A peanut shell usually contains two peanuts, sometimes one, and occasionally three; you crack the shell, eat the nuts inside, and discard the shell.
Sometimes I am light, sometimes I am dark. What am I?
Chocolate comes in light varieties (milk or white chocolate) and dark varieties (dark chocolate).
A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
A potato is covered in a thin skin dotted with 'eyes' (sprouting buds), and tastes great once it's cooked ('done').
It is sharp but not pepper; white but not paper; green but not shaddock. What am I?
A radish has a sharp, peppery bite, a crisp white interior, and green leafy tops, but isn't literally pepper, paper, or a grapefruit-like shaddock.