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1. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and
he wears size 13 sneakers.
What does he weigh?
3. What lies in bed, and stands in bed? First white then red. The plumper
it gets the better the old women like it?
5. The virgin gave birth to a child and threw away the blanket.
6. Patch upon patch, without any stitches, if you tell me this riddle, I'll
give you my breeches.
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7. I ate one and threw away two.
8. What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger
but weighs less?
9. 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?
10. 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?
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13. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead.
What am I?
16. It is sharp but not pepper; white but not paper; green but not
shaddock. What am I?
17. A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done.
What am I?
19. 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?
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20. A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three. Break the
walls, eat the borders, then throw away me. What am I?
21. 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?
25. 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.
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26. I'm a ring of sliced onion dipped in batter and then deep fried.
27. This food is a white meat, that often goes with salad. It's poultry.
28. It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?
29. Give it a toss, and it's ready, but not until it's dressed. What is it?
31. I'm a small ring shaped fried cake, often with bavarian cream or fruit
filling, and sometimes covered in icing and sprinkles.
32. This dish is hot frankfurter served in a long, soft roll and typically
topped with various condiments. Often served with hamburgers.
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marshmallows.
37. 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?
40. What is common to eat before it's born and after it's dead?
41. I'm a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops,
cooked and eaten fried, such as french fries.
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43. 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.
44. Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried.
46. Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two well known
varieties of this kind of food.
47. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh.
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48. It nukes food at the touch of a button.
49. Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood,
then cast its skin aside.
50. 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.
52. 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.
54. This type of food, which is a fungus, is often served on supreme pizza,
in spaghetti and in a particular "cream of" style soup.
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57. 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.
59. This type of corn swells up and bursts into a crisp puff when heated.
60. I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh
and yellow skin when ripe.
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62. This small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red, is
63. Kids love this bouncy, sugary, treat. It's like colorful rubber that you
can eat.
64. Despite having long teeth, every bit of food it grabs gets taken from it.
66. I'm a type of pizza that is folded in half before cooking to contain a
filling.
67. This is meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or
smoked, often enjoyed in a sandwich.
70. 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?
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71. This is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the
name, usually stewed, in a sauce.
73. 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.
74. I'm red but I can be green at times and I am even yellow. What am I?
75. This large green melon has red pulp inside and watery juice. Best
enjoyed cold on a hot summer day.
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sidewalks.
79. This dish is defined as small pasta envelopes containing ground meat,
cheese, or vegetables.
81. It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?
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84. This is a baked snack that is traditionally twisted into a unique knot-
like shape.
86. For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy
sticks.
87. 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?
88. I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no
branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
89. If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?
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91. I can be sweet or sour. I do not rhyme with any other word. What am
I?
93. I'm a flat circular spongy roll made from yeast dough and eaten
toasted and buttered.
94. This is variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes, often mixed with
cheese powder.
96. 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.
97. What traps a star in its belly but can be held in your hand?
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104. Grown in the ground, it's taller than you. Strip off the outside, the
yellow pieces you chew. What is it?
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105. What food has no beginning, end, or middle?
106. What do you get when you cross a chicken and a pig?
107. Green on the outside but red and black inside. I am food but mostly
liquid. What am I?
108. You throw away my outside, you cook my inside. Then you eat my
outside and you throw away my inside. What am I?
109. A toasty and crunchy cereal would be pointless without this spice.
111. This Cajun dish of rice with shrimp, chicken, and vegetables, is often
enjoyed with cornbread.
112. I consist of several parts. Two slices of bread, usually cheese and some
kind of lunch meat. What am I?
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114. I'm a small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp. I come in a
variety of flavors from chocolate chip to oatmeal raisin.
120. A container holding water but not a cup. If you want to find me, look
up. What am I?
121. This food is a staple for households worldwide. Its definition is: An
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edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain
123. Squeeze it and it cries tears. As red as its flesh, but its heart is made of
stone.
124. A breakfast food that is cracked from white shells and is often
scrambled. Usually served with bacon, sausage, toast or pancakes.
125. What has a green top, red on its belly, seeds on the outside, and tastes
great in jelly?
126. What is this Mexican dish consisting of a fried folded tortilla, filled
with various mixtures, such as seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and
tomato?
127. High fat reward for making it through another solar cycle.
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129. This crisp stick-shaped roll is often enjoyed with soup or marinara
sauce.
130. These are crisp, green, and are found near deli sandwiches.
131. This toasted sandwich is made with bacon, lettuce and tomato.
133. What starts out in a field and then crashed on a stone. It becomes
much more when to the fire it's thrown?
135. 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.
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136. I'm usually served alongside burgers. I'm crispy golden potato sticks.
137. I'm a dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg
and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked.
139. I'm a vegetable that is a long, green stalk. I'm usually eaten at
thanksgiving with cheese or peanut butter.
143. This dip for chips is a spanish style sauce, mainly consisting of
peppers, diced tomatoes and spices for a spicy flavor.
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145. I am the kind of food monkey likes, and people slip on me and fall in
cartoons. What am I?
147. It comes from crystal and melts to a treat. Add it to your tea to make it
sweet. What is it?
150. I am the type of room you can not enter or leave. Raise from the
ground below. I could be poisonous or a delicious treat. What am I?
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151. I am yellow on the outside, white inside, and very appealing. What am
I?
152. What can provide food before it is alive, while it is alive and after it's
dead?
153. I'm a long, green-skinned fruit with watery flesh, usually eaten raw in
salads or pickled.
154. This dish consists of a rolled tortilla with a filling typically of beef or
chicken and served with a chili sauce.
155. This breakfast food is thin, flat cake or batter, usually fried and turned
in a pan. It is often enjoyed with butter and syrup.
157. The lunch destination of choice for teenagers and hospital employees.
158. This food is usually grilled and put between two buns, with cheese,
tomato and pickles.
159. This small, rolled tortilla usually has meat or cheese filling, and was
originally invented in Mexico.
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160. A close relative of ketchup that people often spread on their dog.
161. Although I may have eyes, I cannot see. I have a round brown face
with lots of acne. What am I?
163. This food, made from pork, is often eaten alongside eggs and bacon.
165. This food is made of grated potatoes smashed together and fried in
the form of a tot.
166. This orange colored fruit gets its name from its color.
167. Often cooked as fillet, this meat comes from an animal that swims
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underwater.
168. This pastry is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is
apples.
170. 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.
171. This for is a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with
a top and base of pastry.
172. If you are a sore loser, you are often called the sour variety of this fruit.
174. What is eaten by man, served among many, grown by many, and
white as snow?
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175. This baked dish consists of an open-topped pastry case with a savory
or sweet filling.
176. I'm a lot like a pancake, except I'm a little crisper, and I'm square, with
square patterns all over.
178. The leaves are on the fruit, the fruit is on the leaves. What is it?
179. I'm a thick slice of beef or other high-quality meat or fish that is often
cooked on a grill or fried.
181. I'm a soft, sweet food made from a mixture of flour, shortening, eggs,
sugar, and other ingredients, baked and often decorated.
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182. When it comes to me, you go on red and stops on green. What am I?
184. I'm a red creature from the sea with large claws, or pincers, and I'm
often boiled and served as an expensive dish at seafood restaurants.
185. If you are a man then your best friend will eat this for dinner.
187. What has green hair, a round red head and a long thin white beard?
188. 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?
189. What can be grown without sun or soil and can either provide
nourishment or deliver poison?
190. This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before
being heated or cooked.
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192. I'm a fruit that grows on a tree. Some of my varieties include Red
Delicious and Granny Smith.
195. I am a fruit, but also a shape. If you had two of me, I would sound just
the same. If you rearrange my letters, it could be a crime. Add me to a
montage and I can become a different fruit. Remove my head and you
can still listen; take away the end and I can still be eaten. Without a
piece of the centre, I am still a word; take away all of the middle and I
am just an acronym. What am I?
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197. What is the wealthiest nut?
204. What is the coolest and most awesome of all the vegetables?
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12. plum pudding 38. jam
13. onion 39. cake
14. cherry 40. chicken
15. pineapple 41. potato
16. radish 42. carrot
17. potato 43. fish
18. chocolate 44. jerky
19. cheese 45. apple
20. peanut 46. soup
21. Pumpkins. Lynn only likes things that 47. lettuce
grow on vines.
48. microwave
22. 40 cents. The price of each fruit is
49. orange
calculated by multiplying the number of
vowels by 20c. 50. grape
23. grapes 51. hot dog
24. bananas 52. avocado
25. walnut 53. broccoli
26. onion rings 54. mushroom
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67. ham 96. bread
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125. strawberry 154. enchelada
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183. fudge 201. honeydew
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