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Food riddles hide something edible behind a few teasing lines β€” a fruit that starts arguments about whether it is a fruit, a vegetable with a jacket you throw away, something that makes you cry without ever meaning any harm. Because everybody eats, the answers sit within reach of any solver, which makes these a reliable crowd-pleaser at parties, in lunchboxes and in the classroom. They are also a painless way to get children thinking about where their meals come from. Every food riddle below comes with its answer, so you can serve them up and settle the argument straight away.

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A box without hinges, key, or lid yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. Who am I?πŸ‘€ Answer A breakfast food that is cracked from white shells and is often scrambled. Usually served with bacon, sausage, toast or pancakes.πŸ‘€ Answer A fruit on a tree. A tree on a fruit.πŸ‘€ Answer A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.πŸ‘€ Answer 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?πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer A toasty and crunchy cereal would be pointless without this spice.πŸ‘€ Answer A wonderful elixir, It is your fluid fixer. Gulp it down and turn like a concrete mixer. Dark as night and sweet as sin, It's like liquid heroin.πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer As soft as silk, as white as milk, as bitter as gall, a thick green wall, and a green coat covers me all.πŸ‘€ Answer Before crust hardens.πŸ‘€ Answer Both peaches and a certain couture have this in common.πŸ‘€ Answer Come November 1st, many of these will be found smashed on sidewalksπŸ‘€ Answer Delicious but said to be a lie.πŸ‘€ Answer Five horses follow me to war, all the horses but I didn't.πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy sticks.πŸ‘€ Answer Give it a toss, and it's ready, but not until it's dressed. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer Green but not a lizard, white without being snow, and bearded without being a man.πŸ‘€ Answer Green on the outside but red and black inside. I am food but mostly liquid. What am I?πŸ‘€ Answer Grown in the ground, it's taller than you. Strip off the outside, the yellow pieces you chew. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer High fat reward for making it through another solar cycleπŸ‘€ Answer I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get to close I'll make you cry. What am I?πŸ‘€ Answer I am a food made from the pressed curds of milk. I come in American, swiss, sharp and many other flavors. What am I?πŸ‘€ Answer I ate one and threw away twoπŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer I have in me potatoes my name is semeler to a dayπŸ‘€ Answer I'm a blended cold beverage made up of milk, ice cream and fruit. I bring all the boys to the yard.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smokedπŸ‘€ Answer I'm a flat circular spongy roll made from yeast dough and eaten toasted and butteredπŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a fruit that grows on a tree. Some of my varieties include Red Delicious and Granny Smith.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a long, greenΒ­-skinned fruit with watery flesh, usually eaten raw in salads or pickled.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a lot like a pancake, except I'm a little crisper, and I'm square, with square patterns all over.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a pie, but I come with peperoni and cheeseπŸ‘€ Answer I'm a small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp. I come in a variety of flavors from chocolate chip to oatmeal raisin.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a soft, sweet food made from a mixture of flour, shortening, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and often decorated.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a thick slice of beef or other highΒ­-quality meat or fish that is often cooked on a grill or fried.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm a vegetable that is a long, green stalk. I'm usually eaten at thanksgiving with cheese or peanut butter.πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer I'm usually served alongside burgers. I'm crispy golden potato sticksπŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer If it weren't for these, no one would be aware of Idaho's existence.πŸ‘€ Answer If you are a sore loser, you are often called the sour variety of this fruit.πŸ‘€ Answer If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?πŸ‘€ Answer It is basically a cake made of cow.πŸ‘€ Answer It nukes food at the touch of a button.πŸ‘€ Answer It produces a flower but it is not its fruitΝΎ it produces branches which are its fruit.πŸ‘€ Answer It's a symbol and a fruit, For man's folly, evil's root. But also for great inspiration, and famous application.πŸ‘€ Answer It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer Ketchup's slightly less popular brother.πŸ‘€ Answer 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?πŸ‘€ Answer Many people confuse me with a vegetable, but I'm actually a fruit. I'm red when I'm ripe, and I'm sliced and served on burgers.πŸ‘€ Answer Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer One of the few vegetables that is routinely consumed with marshmallows.πŸ‘€ Answer Patch upon patch, without any stitches, if you tell me this riddle, I'll give you my breeches.πŸ‘€ Answer Remove the outside cook the inside eat the inside throw the outsideπŸ‘€ Answer Sauerkraut owes its existence to this headπŸ‘€ Answer Squeeze it and it cries tears. As red as its flesh, but its heart is made of stone.πŸ‘€ Answer Strip the skin under my skin, and my flesh you'll reveal. It tastes sweet and tart, now throw out the peel. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer The leaves are on the fruit, the fruit is on the leaves. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer The leaves are on the fruit, the fruit on the leaves. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer The sun bakes them, The hand breaks them, The foot treads on them, And the mouth tastes them. What are they?πŸ‘€ Answer The warmer I am, The fresher I am.πŸ‘€ Answer There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer These are crisp, green, and are found near deli sandwichesπŸ‘€ Answer This baked dish consists of an open-topped pastry case with a savory or sweet filling.πŸ‘€ Answer This baked dish consists of an openΒ­topped pastry case with a savory or sweet filling.πŸ‘€ Answer This breakfast food is thin, flat cake or batter, usually fried and turned in a pan. It is often enjoyed with butter and syrup.πŸ‘€ Answer This Cajun dish of rice with shrimp, chicken, and vegetables, is often enjoyed with cornbread.πŸ‘€ Answer This crisp stick-shaped roll is often enjoyed with soup or marinara sauce.πŸ‘€ Answer This dip for chips is a spanish style sauce, mainly consisting of peppers, diced tomatoes and spices for a spicy flavor.πŸ‘€ Answer This dish consists of a rolled tortilla with a filling typically of beef or chicken and served with a chili sauce.πŸ‘€ Answer This dish is usually consumed at breakfast time with milk.πŸ‘€ Answer This food is a staple grain in many pantries worldwide. You often steam or boil it and serve it in a variety of different ways. One brand touts the fact that it can be cooked in 1 minute.πŸ‘€ Answer This food is a Thanksgiving tradition.πŸ‘€ Answer This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before being heated or cooked.πŸ‘€ Answer This food is a white meat, that often goes with salad. It's poultryπŸ‘€ Answer This food is made of grated potatoes smashed together and fried in the form of a tot.πŸ‘€ Answer This food is usually grilled and put between two buns, with cheese, tomato and pickles.πŸ‘€ Answer This food, made from pork, is often eaten alongside eggs and baconπŸ‘€ Answer This for is a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry.πŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer This is a baked snack that is traditionally twisted into a unique knot-like shape.πŸ‘€ Answer This is a baked snack that is traditionally twisted into a unique knotΒ­like shape.πŸ‘€ Answer This is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice sushi-meshi combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood.πŸ‘€ Answer This is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice sushiΒ­meshi combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafoodπŸ‘€ Answer This is a pancake restaurantI am a kangarooπŸ‘€ Answer This is variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes, often mixed with cheese powderπŸ‘€ Answer This large green melon has red pulp inside and watery juice. Best enjoyed cold on a hot summer dayπŸ‘€ Answer 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.πŸ‘€ Answer This orange colored fruit gets its name from its color.πŸ‘€ Answer This orange vegetable is a favorite of Bugs BunnyπŸ‘€ Answer This pastry is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples.πŸ‘€ Answer This small, rolled tortilla usually has meat or cheese filling, and was originally invented in Mexico.πŸ‘€ Answer This toasted sandwich is made with bacon, lettuce and tomatoπŸ‘€ Answer This type of tempting cuisine is independent of utensils and usually tastes better than it sounds.πŸ‘€ Answer We are a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-Β­yellow skin that is often sweet or tart in taste. What are we?πŸ‘€ Answer What can be opened but cannot be closed?πŸ‘€ Answer What can break when we touch itπŸ‘€ Answer What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed and thought delicious?πŸ‘€ Answer What can't you eat for breakfast?πŸ‘€ Answer What dish consists of tortilla chips smothered in cheese?πŸ‘€ Answer What do ghost serve for dessert?πŸ‘€ Answer What do you always smell but never smelled youπŸ‘€ Answer What do you call bread that has been browned in a small electric oven until it is crispy?πŸ‘€ Answer What food goes on and on without a beginning, middle, or an end?πŸ‘€ Answer What food has no beginning, end, or middle?πŸ‘€ Answer What fruit is of great use in history?πŸ‘€ Answer What has a green top, red on its belly, seeds on the outside, and tastes great in jelly?πŸ‘€ Answer What has ears but can't hear?πŸ‘€ Answer What has green hair, a round red head and a long thin white beard?πŸ‘€ Answer What is eaten by man, served among many, grown by many, and white as snow?πŸ‘€ Answer What is round, has a twin, and sees more than most?πŸ‘€ Answer What is the only chain we can eat?πŸ‘€ Answer What is the saddest fruit?πŸ‘€ Answer What is this Mexican dish consisting of a fried folded tortilla, filled with various mixtures, such as seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomato?πŸ‘€ Answer What kind of a nut has a hole?πŸ‘€ Answer What kind of apple has a short temper?πŸ‘€ Answer What kind of soda must you not drink?πŸ‘€ Answer What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?πŸ‘€ Answer What nut has a hole and is squishy?πŸ‘€ Answer What starts out in a field and then crashed on a stone. It becomes much more when to the fire it's thrown?πŸ‘€ Answer What stinks when living and smells good when dead?πŸ‘€ Answer What traps a star in its belly but can be held in your hand?πŸ‘€ Answer What type of cheese is made backwards?πŸ‘€ Answer When do you start when it’s red but stop when it’s green?πŸ‘€ Answer Which country do French fries come from?πŸ‘€ Answer Which kind of fruit must have a large wedding ceremony with lots of people in attendance?πŸ‘€ Answer You’ll find me in a soup, in a burger, in a pizza, I am green when raw and red when ripened and ready to become a condiment.πŸ‘€ Answer You throw away the outside, eat the inside, and throw away the inside. What is it?πŸ‘€ Answer