If you like pasta, you're going to love these hilarious pasta puns
50 Pasta Puns to Spice Up Your Daily Rotini
Updated on Jun. 10, 2025
Let’s face it: If you clicked on this, you probably dream of eating pasta for every meal of the day. It might be a little hard to have it for breakfast, but hey, nothing is impastable. Pasta puns are comfort food for the brain—simple, satisfying and hard to resist. From coffee puns that perk up your morning to pasta puns at dinner, food-themed humor always hits the spot.
Penne, tortellini, farfalle, cavatelli, ravioli, fusilli: Pasta comes in many forms, and so do the puns. If you need a clever Instagram caption for your homemade marinara pics, or you’re trying to convince your family to have cheesy, gooey pasta for the third night in a row, these pasta puns will get the job done.
Reader’s Digest loves a good food pick-up line, and pasta puns have all the right ingredients. Ahead, we’re serving up the most pasta-tively funny puns to add some humor to your next noodle night. Learn some jokes about food.
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Pasta puns
- I walked right pasta and didn’t even notice!
- Life is full of pasta-bilities.
- Can you pasta sauce please?
- This too shall pasta.
- You mac me smile.
- Pasta la vista, baby.
- Sadly, they pasta way.
- I’m feeling saucy.
- A life without noodles seems im-pasta-ble.
- The pasta few days have been so warm.
- That’s pre-pasta-rous!
- That fake noodle is an impasta!
- You’re pasta-tively amazing.
- You pasta your test!
- I’m not stroganoff to beat him.
Noodle puns
- Ramen to that!
- I’m a pho-natic.
- I am tortellini in love with you.
- Look, a Lambourguini!
- I’m such a hopeless ramen-tic.
- Noodles are part of my daily rotini.
- No need to be ravi-lonely, I’m here.
- I’m crazy pho noodles!
- I cannelloni do so much
- Don’t make fusilli mistakes.
- That is tortellini awesome!
- Don’t judge me because udon know me.
- It cost a pretty penne.
- Girls just want to have pho!
- I cannelloni laugh at my mistakes.
- A penne saved is a penne earned.
- That made me laugh so hard I’m ravioling on the floor.
- You and I are ramen to be.
- Penne for your thoughts.
Spaghetti puns
- We’re all spaghetting older.
- Come and spaghet it.
- Spaghett out of my way!
- You just spaghet-me!
- The battle of spaghettisburg.
- Spaghett the hype.
- Like unrinsed spaghetti, good friends stick together.
- I get upsetti without my spaghetti.
Italian food puns
- Just gnocch-ing around.
- I’m a ziti slicker.
- The pesto’s yet to come.
- You’re the ravi-only one for me.
- About a cup orzo of water should do.
- I’m so gnocchi to have you.
- There’s a capellini-er, but I think we’ll need to buy some more.
- A breath of fresca air.
Had enough carbs? Surely you jest! Satisfy your sweet tooth with donut puns and candy puns—it’s breakfast and dessert at the same time.
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