31 Egg Puns That Will Crack You Up

Updated: Jul. 16, 2021

If eggs are your favorite breakfast food (or just your favorite food, period), you'll want to commit these egg puns to memory.

Poached, fried, over-easy, sunny side up, scrambled, hard-boiled, or deviled—eggs are certainly of the more adaptable breakfast foods at our disposal. So, rather fittingly, egg puns are just as versatile. Now if it were bad puns you were looking for, or even taco puns, we’ve got those too. But you won’t find them here. These are only good egg puns.

1) What did the doctor tell the chicken with high cholesterol? “Lay off the eggs for a while.”

2) What did the egg do when it saw the frying pan? It scrambled.

3) Why do you have to watch what you say around egg whites? They can’t take a yolk.

Why do you have to watch what you say around egg whites? They can't take a yolk.rd.com, Getty Images

4) Why does everyone love hard-boiled eggs in the morning? They’re hard to beat.

5) Why did the egg regret being in an omelet? It wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

6) What did Snow White name her hen? Egg White.

7) Easter is here: it’s do or dye.

8) What came first, the chicken or the egg? The dinosaur. Don’t forget to bookmark these dinosaur jokes—you never know when they’ll come in handy.

9) What do you call a smart omelet? An egg-head.

10) What do you call a mischievous egg? A practical-yolker.

11) What sport are eggs best at? Running.

12) How does a hen leave its house? Through the eggs-it.

13) Why did the man steal his eggs? He likes them poached.

14) Omelet that slide…right onto my plate.

15) I’ve decided to put my eggs all in one basket. I’m just tired of looking silly walking around the supermarket.

Do you know what goes great with egg puns? Coffee puns for a whole latte laughs.

I need a double shot of eggs-presso.rd.com, Getty Images

16) I need a double shot of eggs-presso.

17) How do chickens stay fit? They eggs-ercise. Read more of these chicken puns if you need a laugh!

18) Where can you go to learn more about eggs? The hen-cyclopedia.

19) How do monsters like their eggs? Terrified.

20) How do you make an egg roll? You give it a little push.

21) You’re poaching all my best yolks!

22) How can you tell if an egg’s been boiled or not? Eggs-ray vision.

23) How did the omelet find out she was ill? She had a medical eggs-am.

24) My name is Inigo Montoya. Prepare to dye.

25) What do you call an egg who likes to go on Safari? An eggs-plorer.

26) Why do so many people love a boiled egg for breakfast? It’s so hard to beat.

27) What was the motivational egg speaker’s slogan? Sunny side up!

These cheese puns are brie-llant if we do say so ourselves.

I saw a sign earlier that said "Free Range Eggs." I've never heard of Range Eggs before, but at least they were free to take!rd.com, Getty Images

28) I saw a sign earlier that said “Free Range Eggs.” I’ve never heard of Range Eggs before, but at least they were free to take! Need more puns? These plant puns will really knock your stalks off.

29) These eggs are out of this world. Eggstraterrestial.

30) You must be an Easter Egg because I’m dying to get to know you better.

31) Why was the chicken up all night? Restless Egg Syndrome.

If you need more breakfast food puns, browse these a-dough-rable donut puns.