Lunchtime is a great opportunity to engage our minds with some fun riddles and brain teasers. Here are 89 riddles all about lunch, along with their answers, to entertain and challenge you. Get ready to exercise your logic, creativity and lateral thinking skills!
Riddles about lunch food
Lunch often consists of some classic food items like sandwiches, soups, salads, pizza and more. Here are some riddles centered around popular lunchtime foods.
Sandwich riddles
1. What do you get when you cross a motorcycle and a sandwich?
Answer: a Yamaha (Ya-ma-ha / ham-a sandwich)
2. Why did the sandwich go to the dentist?
Answer: It needed a filling (a sandwich filling)
3. What sits in a corner and travels all over the world?
Answer: A stamp (Stamps are used to mail letters. Stamps are also used in collecting. Some stamps come from all over the world)
4. What did the Dagwood sandwich say to the tall sandwich?
Answer: Hi there, long time no eat! (A Dagwood sandwich is made with many layers. A tall sandwich would also have many layers)
5. Why did the girl eat only half her sandwich?
Answer: The other half was exactly the same!
Soup riddles
6. What kind of soup did the chef make that no one liked?
Answer: Bad soup!
7. Why did the baby soup cry?
Answer: Because his father was in hot water!
8. What did the soup say to the dish?
Answer: Nothing, soups can’t talk!
9. How do you communicate with a giant bowl of soup?
Answer: Use big words!
10. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a bowl of hot soup?
Answer: Frostbite!
Salad riddles
11. Why was the salad so rich?
Answer: Because it had a lot of greenbacks (Lettuce, cabbage etc are green. Greenbacks is also slang for cash)
12. What did the tomato say to the salad?
Answer: Lettuce get together!
13. Why was the salad dressing bottle blushing?
Answer: Because it saw the salad dressing!
14. What did the green pea say to the salad?
Answer: Wanna toss around sometime?
15. Why was there thunder and lightning in the refrigerator?
Answer: Because there was a salad dressing!
Pizza riddles
16. What do you call a sleeping pizza?
Answer: A pizza zza!
17. Why did the customer get mad at the pizza?
Answer: It had too much cheese-tease!
18. Why couldn’t the pizza fit into its box?
Answer: Because it was too big!
19. What do you call a pizza that makes you sad?
Answer: A blue cheese pizza!
20. Why did the pizza get a bad grade?
Answer: It didn’t make the Dean’s list!
Riddles about lunch places
We often grab lunch at popular spots like cafeterias, restaurants, food trucks and more. Here are some brain teasers about common lunchtime eateries.
21. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library (because it has so many books)
22. What kind of meal do you get in a furniture store?
Answer: A table with chairs!
23. Where do you learn the art of Spanish cooking?
Answer: At cooking school!
24. Where do you eat lunch really quickly?
Answer: In a fast food restaurant!
25. Where do you find lots of food but no silverware?
Answer: At a buffet!
26. Where do people go to eat burgers and fries?
Answer: Fast food restaurants!
27. Where can you find food from all over the world?
Answer: A food court!
28. Where do you eat lunch on the go?
Answer: In your car, if you’re driving!
29. Where do you eat outside in nice weather?
Answer: On a patio!
30. Where do you eat surrounded by books?
Answer: In a library cafe!
Riddles about lunch times
Lunch happens around midday. Here are some riddles about the time of day we typically eat lunch.
31. What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
Answer: Noon
32. What has a face but no body?
Answer: A clock
33. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
34. David’s father has three sons – Snap, Crackle and what’s the name of the third son?
Answer: David
35. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
36. What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table
37. The more you take away, the larger it becomes. What is it?
Answer: A hole
38. What can go all around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence
39. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
40. What has 13 hearts but no body?
Answer: A deck of cards
Riddles about lunch drinks
What would lunch be without something to drink? Here are riddles centered around common lunchtime beverages.
41. What is as light as a feather but even the worlds strongest man can’t hold for more than a minute?
Answer: Their breath
42. What is poured out but never touches the ground?
Answer: Light
43. What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold
44. What starts with P, ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office
45. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
46. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin
47. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
48. What has to be broken before it can be used?
Answer: An egg
49. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
50. People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate
Riddles about lunch accessories
Things like napkins, straws, trays and more make lunchtime easier. See if you can solve these riddles about lunchtime accessories!
51. What has a mouth but does not eat?
Answer: A jar
52. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
53. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
54. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn
55. What gets wet when drying?
Answer: A towel
56. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
57. What has a bed but never sleeps and runs but never walks?
Answer: A river
58. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
59. What can point in every direction but can’t reach the destination by itself?
Answer: Your finger
60. What has a face but no eyes, arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
Riddles about lunch payments
Money makes the lunchtime world go round. See if you can figure out these money-related lunch riddles.
61. What has a head, a tail, but no legs?
Answer: A coin
62. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock (clock hands)
63. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel
64. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
65. What has a neck and no head?
Answer: A bottle
66. What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office
67. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library
68. What goes up but never goes down?
Answer: Your age
69. What is as light as a feather but impossible to hold for more than a minute?
Answer: Your breath
70. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
General lunch riddles
Here are some general riddles about the midday meal without a specific theme. See if you can solve them!
71. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue
72. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
73. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
74. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny
75. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
76. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
77. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
78. What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table
79. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
80. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
Tricky lunch riddles
Think you’re a riddle pro? Try to solve these extra tricky brain teasers about lunch!
81. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence
82. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise
83. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
84. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
85. What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table
86. Sam’s mother had three children. The first was named April, the next was named May. What was the name of the third child?
Answer: Sam
87. What has many needles but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree
88. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
89. What is always behind you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The past
Conclusion
We hope you enjoyed exercising your brain with these 89 challenging and fun riddles all about the midday meal. Riddles are great for stimulating our minds and bringing a bit of entertainment to lunchtime. Next time you sit down for a sandwich or salad, grab a friend and try to stump each other with these lunchtime riddles!
