May the Forks Be With You: 51 Star Wars Food Puns

Star Wars and food puns occupy the exact same part of my brain, the part that refuses to grow up and is honestly thriving because of it. I’ve been collecting these for an embarrassingly long time, scribbling them on napkins at restaurants like some kind of unhinged person. Anyway, here’s what I’ve got.

1. The One That Started It All

What’s Chewbacca’s favorite dessert? Wookiee Cookies.

I know, I know. Everyone’s heard this one. But you can’t make a star wars food puns list without it, that’s like making a Star Wars movie without a desert planet. (Oh wait, they do that every single time.)

2. Obi-Wan Cannoli

“You’re my only cannoli, Obi-Wan.” I’ve sent this as an actual text message to at least four people and none of them responded. Worth it every time. This one’s perfect as an Instagram caption with a picture of your dessert plate, and I will die on this hill.

3. The Spud Side

Darth Tater.

That’s it. That’s the pun. Mr. Potato Head already made the toy. I’m just here to remind you it exists.

4, 6. The Rapid-Fire Cantina Round

• Ewok-amolewhat the Ewoks bring to every Endor potluck
• Sarlacc Pit-a Breadtakes a thousand years to digest, just like real pita if you eat enough of it
• Millennium Fal-corn on the cobshe may not look like much, but she’s got it where it’s buttered

7. A Genuine Favorite

How do Jedi stay awake during those long council meetings? Jedi Knight-ro cold brew.

I am genuinely proud of this one. The “Knight” to “nitro” conversion is clean, the concept is funny because you KNOW Mace Windu was caffeinated out of his mind during those prequels, and it works as a coffee shop menu item. If someone doesn’t open a Star Wars café and put this on the menu, I’ll do it myself. Don’t test me.

8.

What’s the most powerful salad ingredient in the galaxy? The Force-tuce. May the ranch be with you.

9. Yoda Soda

Rhyme, it does. Apologize, I will not.

10.

I told my friend I was making Leia Organa-c Salad for dinner and she just stared at me for a full ten seconds. Then she left my apartment. Relationships are hard when you’re like this.

11. Han Solo-mon Rolls

What’s Han’s go-to sushi order? Solo-mon rolls. He always orders first.

(If you got that, we’re friends now. If you didn’t, look up “Han shot first” and come back.)

12.

R2-D-Stew. Comfort food from a comfort droid. Moving on.

13. C-3PO-tato Salad

Subtitle: The odds of this being funny are approximately 3,720 to 1

What’s C-3PO’s contribution to the rebellion potluck? Potato salad. Obviously. He’s the potato salad of droids, always there, nobody’s first choice, but you’d notice if he was missing.

14.

Death Star-fruit.

Looks intimidating. Kinda weird inside. Has a fatal weakness you can exploit with one good knife cut. The parallels are honestly unsettling.

15. Tatooine Tacos

Not really a pun so much as alliteration, and I’m including it anyway because it sounds like a food truck name and I want that food truck to exist.

16.

What does Luke drink to stay hydrated on Tatooine? Luke Sky-water.

Yeah, this one’s bad. I’m sorry. I’m not that sorry, actually.

17. Boba Fettuccine

THIS. This is the one I’d get tattooed if I were a different kind of person. Boba Fett + fettuccine. It’s elegant. It’s simple. It sounds like it would actually be delicious, some kind of bounty hunter’s special at an Italian place on Coruscant. Ngl, I think about this pun at least twice a month and I’m not exaggerating.

18.

“Have you tried the Bantha Milkshake?”
“Blue or regular?”
“There’s only blue.”

If you’ve seen the original trilogy, you know that cursed blue milk. If you’ve been to Galaxy’s Edge and actually tried it, you know it tastes like a melted blueberry candle. But I digress.

19, 21. The Prequel Trilogy (of Puns)

• Qui-Gon Gin and Tonichis drink of choice before all that unfortunate business on Naboo
• Darth Maul-ted Milkshakecut in half, obviously, so you can share
• Jar Jar Brinks of Salsano one asked for this and yet here it is, just like Jar Jar himself

22.

Admiral Ack-bar snacks. “It’s a wrap!”

Get it? Because… trap… wrap… okay, this one’s a stretch. I’m leaving it in because I’ve already typed it and the delete key is far away.

23. Palpa-Tine Sardines

Subtitle: I have no excuse for this one

Emperor Palpatine + sardines. The wordplay barely works. The image of the Emperor eating sardines from a tin is funny enough to carry it. Sometimes the mental picture does the heavy lifting.

24.

What do you call a Wookiee’s barbecue? A Chewie steak. Because everything Chewbacca makes is gonna be chewy. I don’t make the rules.

25. The Mandalorian Angle

This is the whey.

Protein shake pun. Gym bros and Star Wars fans, this is your crossover moment. You’ve earned it. Put it on a shaker bottle. I dare you.

26.

Mace Windu-nuts. Like… Mace Wind-oo… donuts. Look. LOOK. I know this is terrible. It’s the worst one on this list and I’ve made peace with it.

27. Lando Cal-rissotto

Lando Calrissian + risotto. Smooth, creamy, and it betrays your expectations of how filling it’ll be. Much like Lando in Empire. I genuinely think this is clever and if you disagree, that’s a you problem.

28.

Kylo Ren-tils. Lentils. He’s angry, they’re earthy. The connection ends there.

29. General Griev-ous Gravy

Pour one out for the cyborg general. Then pour gravy on your mashed potatoes. Then tell this pun at Thanksgiving and watch your family consider disowning you.

30.

You know what, quick sidebar, I find it genuinely weird that in a universe with thousands of planets, we barely see anyone eating normal food in Star Wars. It’s always weird colored drinks or that one sad ration portion Rey gets in Force Awakens. No wonder everyone’s always fighting. They’re hungry.

31. Count Dooku’s Cookies

Count Doo-cookie. Say it fast. Faster. See? It works if you don’t think about it too hard, which is honestly how I approach most things.

32.

AT-AT-ouille.

An Imperial walker + Ratatouille. This is the crossover Disney should’ve made instead of whatever they’re doing with the franchise now. A tiny rat piloting an AT-AT by pulling its wires. Somebody draw this. Please.

33, 35. The Dark Side Dinner Menu

Appetizer: Sith-kabobs
Entrée: Emperor’s Palace-nta Chicken (placenta… no wait, piacenta… no. Okay it’s a parmesan thing. I lost control of this one.)
Actually scratch that entrée. Entrée: Force Choke-olate Lava Cake. Much better. Dessert speaks for itself.

36.

Why did Anakin eat his steak well done? Because he has a complicated relationship with burning things. That’s not a pun, that’s just dark. Fitting, I guess.

37. Padmé Ami-dhal

Subtitle: One for the foodies

Padmé Amidala + dhal (the lentil soup). This one requires you to know both Star Wars AND South Asian cuisine, and honestly that Venn diagram is bigger than you’d think. I love this pun. It’s got layers, like the dhal itself. Fight me.

38.

What’s Finn’s favorite breakfast? FN-2187 grain cereal. Okay that doesn’t work at all. I tried. Let’s go with Finn-ger foods and move on with our lives.

39.

Poe Damer-orange. Like… the orange. Dameron. Damer-on. Damer-orange.

I’m not apologizing.

40. Ahsoka Tano-rine

Ahsoka + tangerine. We’re staying in the citrus family. It works because her skin is literally orange. Sometimes the universe just hands you these.

41.

Snoke-d salmon. Brief villain, brief pun.

42. The Nerd’s Deep Cut

What’s Grand Admiral Thrawn’s favorite side? Thrawn-berry compote. If you know Thrawn from the Expanded Universe novels (or Rebels, I guess, for the casuals), this hits different. The man appreciates art and culture, he’d absolutely eat a delicate compote while strategically dismantling your fleet.

43, 44.

Tusken Raider-ish (radish) and Jabba the Hummus.

Jabba the Hummus is going on my tombstone. I’ve decided. It looks like him. The texture is right. I will not elaborate further.

45.

I was at a dinner party last year and someone served crab rangoon and without thinking I said “Crab Ren-goon” and literally no one laughed. Not a soul. The silence was so loud I could hear the Force theme playing in my head as a funeral march. Anyway, it’s a good pun and those people were wrong.

46. Chewbacca’s Beef Jerky

Because he’s always Chewie-ng on something. Yeah, I already did a Chewie-chewing pun earlier. What are you, my editor? (I don’t have an editor. Obviously.)

47.

What do you call a carbonite-frozen dessert? Han So-gelato.

WAIT. That’s actually amazing? I just came up with that as I was typing. I’m going to be riding this high for the rest of the day. Han So-gelato. It’s frozen. He’s frozen. It’s perfect. I’m a genius. This feeling will fade but right now I’m untouchable.

48.

Nien Nunb-ers. Like the candy Goobers but… nope. No. Even I can’t sell this one. Nien Nunb is too obscure and the wordplay is nonexistent. Next.

49. Moff Tarkin-o Chips

Grand Moff Tarkin + Tostitos… no. Tarkin + Doritos… no. Moff Tar-tortilla chips. You know what, let’s just say Grand Moff Tarkin Sauce and pretend tarkin sauce is a thing. It’s not. But in my heart it is.

50. The Halfway-Past-Halfway Celebration

We’ve passed 50 and I’m still going. My brain feels like it’s been through the trash compactor scene. Let’s push through.

51.

Greedo’s Grilled Cheese. He never got to finish it. (Because Han shot first. Always.)

52. Bespin Cloud City Cake

Subtitle: Extremely specific baking pun

You know those Japanese cotton cheesecakes that are impossibly fluffy and cloud-like? Those are Cloud City Cakes and Lando would serve them at every function. This isn’t even a pun tbh, it’s just a good idea. Someone bake this for me.

53, 55. Sequel Trilogy Speed Round

These movies get a lot of hate but they gave us great pun material, so:

• Rey-sinsraisins, but make it Jakku. She’d probably think raisins were fancy.
• Supreme Leader SconeSnoke + scone. Crumbles easily. Too soon? It’s been like nine years.
• Rose Tico-tta CheeseRose Tico + ricotta. Underrated character, underrated cheese. I said what I said.

56.

What did the waiter at Dex’s Diner say? “May the forks be with you.”

The most obvious star wars food pun in existence and I saved it for #56 because I have chaotic energy and no editorial plan.

57. Asajj Ven-tress Leches Cake

Asajj Ventress + tres leches. This is for the Clone Wars fans who also love Latin American desserts. That’s a VERY specific demographic and I’m proud to serve them. (Kinda proud of the “ven-tress/tres” connection too, not gonna lie.)

58.

What’s on the menu at the Mos Eisley Cantina? A wretched hive of scones and villainy.

59.

“You underestimate my flour!”, Anakin, probably, before his bread collapsed in the oven. I like to imagine the entire prequel trilogy is actually about a baking competition gone horribly wrong. The high ground is just the top rack of the oven.

60. The Closer

Do or donut. There is no fry.

That’s it. That’s the one. Send it to your group chat. Put it on a t-shirt. I’m going to bed.

If you made it through all 60 of these, your midi-chlorian count for pun tolerance is off the charts. I’ve got like twelve more written on a napkin somewhere but my brain is fried, and not in the good, Yoda-tempura kind of way.