These fruit puns have a wide a-peel and will have you laughing down to your core
53 Fruit Puns That Are Berry Berry Funny
Updated on Jun. 04, 2025
If you don’t know how hilarious the produce section of the grocery store can be, you’re in for a tasty treat. Fresh apples, oranges, berries and more are ripe for the pickin’—and full of fruit puns. We’re bananas for food pickup lines and the berry best jokes, so naturally, we had to collect a fruit salad’s worth of puns for your amusement. Use them in everyday conversation, to sign a greeting card or for clever Instagram captions. You really can’t go wrong—they’re just that good.
Reader’s Digest picked the best fruit puns (which are definitely sweeter than vegetable puns), so you don’t even have to reach for these juicy, garden-variety gags. Ready to laugh? These fruit puns are sweet, clever and bursting with flavor.
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Apple puns
- I apple-solutely adore you!
- And they all lived apple-y ever after.
- I find you so a-peel-ing.
- This pie looks so apple-tizing!
Berry puns
- You are so berry sweet.
- You’re berry special to me.
- I’m berry fond of you.
- It happened right before my berry eyes.
- I’ve been searching for berried treasure.
- I love you berry much.
- I blueberry much love you.
- This fruit salad really blue me away.
- I miss you berry much.
Peach puns
- Peach perfect.
- We were made for peach other.
- I a-peach-iate you!
- You have a peach of my heart.
- Always remember to practice what you peach.
- Peach for the stars.
- You want a peach of me?
Orange puns
- Orange you glad it’s a beautiful day?
- Squeeze the day!
- Orange you happy to see me?
- You better get juiced to my jokes!
Pineapple puns
- I’ve been pine-ing for you.
- Good afternoon, your pine-ness.
- If you were a fruit, you’d be a fine-apple.
- You’re the pineapple of my eye.
Pear puns
- It’s a pear-fect day for a picnic.
- Don’t we make a great pear?
- Here, pear and everywhere.
- Did you hear the one about the fruit salad? A-pear-antly not.
Mango puns
- It takes two to mango!
- If he doesn’t appreciate you, let that mango.
- Let it mango.
- Each day is mango-nificent!
- A good mango is hard to find these days.
Lime puns
- Wanna hear my best pickup lime?
- Hey, drop me a lime!
- You can call me any lime.
- That’s it! I’ve got to draw the lime.
- All in due lime.
Grape puns
- This is my grape escape!
- Grape minds think alike.
- I had grape expectations for this.
- I’m so grapeful for you.
- It’s grape to meet you.
- You’re being very un-raisin-able right now.
- I think we did a grape job on this, don’t you?
Cherry puns
- Eat, drink and be cherry.
- Thank you cherry much!
- Honey, I cherry-ish you.
- Cherry up, buttercup!
Had enough fruit puns? Switch to the other side of the grocery store with hilarious chicken puns you can share anytime you need a beak.
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