95+ Kimchi Puns And Jokes To Pickle Your Funny Bone - MyPunnyBone (2024)

Annyeong-Haseyo! That’s “Hello” in Korean in case you didn’t know!

Have you been craving something a little spicy, a little tangy, a little salty? Oh boy do we have just the right thing for you! This list of kimchi puns and jokes is gonna add a punchy kick to your boring day.

Did you know that there’s actually close to 200 varieties of kimchi? That’s because “kimchi”,actually is the name of the preservation technique. The vegetables used and ratios of spices can vary according to each family’s taste.

This Korean method of food preservation has been around for over 1500 years dating back to the time of the Three Kingdoms, when the farmers needed to store veggies for longer during the colder months. Preserving the veggies in the cold ends up making a more flavourful pickle full of vitamins and probiotics.

Kimchi helps you get a happy gut, but we can help you get a happy brain! This list of puns will hopefully be preserved well in your memory every time, or well…whatever pickles your fancy!

• Kim-chi – The life force that flows through pickled cabbages.
• Kim-chip – Potato chips with pickles veggie.
• Kim-cheese – Ooey gooey cheesy pickled veggie.
• Kim-cheap – Kimchi on discount.
• Kim-cheap – Budget Korean dinner date where you only eat Kimchi.
• Kim-cheat – Unfaithful pickled cabbages.
• Kim-cheep – How a baby chicken asks for kimchi.
• Kim-she – Pronouns for girl kimchi.
• Kim-sh*t – Kimchi 8 hours later.
• Kim-sheep – Spicy fermented sheep.
• Kimchi-huahua – Little kimchi that barks.
• Clean-chi – Hygienic kimchi.
• Chimp-chi – Kimchi for a chimpanzee!
• Cream-chi – Kimchi on your ice cream.
• Dim-chi – Kimchi that makes you stupid.
• Dream-chi – Dreaming about kimchi.
• Gim-chee – Korean seaweed with kimchi (Gim is the korean word for seaweed/nori).
• Grim-chi – Kimchi that makes you grumpy.
• Limp-chi – Soggy kimchi.
• Skimp-chi – When your korean restaurant’s stingy with the pickled cabbage.
• Skimmed-chi – When you smuggle kimchi out from the Korean buffet.
• Slim-chi – Kimchi for dieters.
• Squi-mchi – Squishy pickled cabbages in baby talk.
• Swim-chi – Kimchi in soup.
• Wimp-chi – Scaredy cat kimchi.
• Kimchi Possible – Every 2000s kid’s favourite cartoon pickle spy.
• Kimchi Fried Lice – Spicy pickled fried bugs.
• Kimchi Fried Mice – Fried rodents with spicy pickled veggie.

Fermented Food Puns

• Fur-ment – Making a cat into kimchi.
• Fir-ment – Turning a whole Christmas tree into kimchi.
• Sour-kraut – Kraut that’s probably gone bad.
• Shower-kraut – German cabbage that’s cleaning itself.
• Show Her Kraut – Showing off your sauerkraut to your girlfriend.
• Sower-kraut – German farmers that plant cabbages.
• Slower-kraut – Slow sauerkraut.
• Mint-so – A weird combo of miso and mint.
• Nut-to (Natto) – Stringy fermented japanese nuts.
• Do-natto – If you mixed fermented soybeans into your doughnuts.
• Tempeh-tation – Enticing soybeans.
• Tempeh-rature – A measure of how hot your fermented soybeans are.
• Grizzly beer – If a bear and beer had a baby.
• Go-chujang – The opposite of Stop – chujang.
• Goat-chujang – Spicy goat chilli paste.
• Kom-boom-cha – Explosive kombucha.
• Kom-boo-cha – Ghost favorite kombucha.
• Kom-butt-cha – Kombucha fermented by sitting on it.
• Kom-butt-cha – Diarhea after drinking bad kombucha.
• Kombu-cha – Fermented japanese seaweed broth.
• Scoby Doo – A kombucha mystery cartoon series (SCOBY is a Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast in fermented/pickled foods).
• We’re fer – meant to be!
• Miso happy.
• It’s natto or never.
• I’m soy proud of you.
• Never soy never.
• Do natto be discouraged.
• Yo, gurt!
• Yogurta be kidding me…
• Watch your tempeh!
• We’re in a pickle, but it’s only tempeh – rary.
• Say cheese!
• I love cheesy puns.
• Cheesy come, cheesy go.
• Carpe diem, cheese the day!
• Who, what, where, when, wine, how?
• Wine, two, three….
• Quit your wine – ing.
• I gotchu(jang) back!

Pickle Puns

• To – pickle – Pickle meant to be applied on your skin.
• Microsco – pickle – Teensy tiny pickle.
• Pickle – o – Pickle flute!
• Billie Relish – A pickle’s favourite singer.
• S – brine Bone – Pickle’s vertebrae.
• Brine – storm – When a pickle is thinking hard.
• Sourpuss – Pickle cat.
• Pickle and choose.
• We’re in a bit of a pickle.
• Pickle my fancy.
• Another ty – pickle day.
• I’m relishing in the moment.
• My dear, you look absolutely relishing (ravishing)!
• Rise and brine!
• No need to be so salty.
• Don’t be so sour.
• Sour – ry for the pickle puns.

Q: What can you add to any kimchi to make it taste better?
A: The word “free”.

Q: Why didn’t the skeleton like spicy kimchi?
A: Because he didn’t have the stomach for it!

Q: What do you call a dinosaur that likes mega spicy kimchi?
A: A mega-sore-ass.

Q: What’s kimchi’s favourite girl band?
A: The spice girls.

Q: How do I eat my crunchy fermented cabbage when I have a cold?
A: I – I – CHHHEEEWWWWWWW!

Q: What’s the difference between cabbage kimchi and snot?
A: Kids don’t eat cabbage.

• Kim Jong Un reported to be in a vegetative state.He’s now Kimchi.
• I thought I liked kimchi. But it turns out, I’m not that cultured.
• I saw a programme about how kimchi is prepared. It was jarring.
• My little old Korean grandma likes to prank us by pretending to choke on her spicy kimchi. It’s an old gag.
• Every day, the kimchi sees a green vegetable at the jar who is always waiting for his turn. It must be the queue-cumber.
• A Korean barbeque restaurant had a poster for the meanest spicy kimchi fried rice. I ordered it and well…turns out it’s just very average.
• Was arguing with a friend at a Korean barbeque place when the waiter ran over and grabbed the radish and kimchi. I wish he’d stop taking sides.
• I used to be able to go to the grocery store with $20 and come back with enough kimchi to last a whole month! Yeah, try doing it nowadays with cameras everywhere.
• Eating really spicy kimchi is like expressing your love to someone who has no interest in you – you always get burned in the end.
• A man walks into a Korean restaurant to get some food. He tells the dude at the cash register “I’d like to buy a bulgogi fried rice, with kimchi please.”
  The cashier said, “I’m sorry sir, we only take cash or credit.”
• A man walks into a restaurant at lunchtime and is accosted by three women by the door – one Chinese, one Japanese and one Korean.
  “Hey guy! Try the barbecue pork fried rice! Number one dish!” proclaims the Chinese woman.
  “No no, you want the unagi udon! Best taste!” yells the Japanese woman in reply.
  “Aish! Pork rice unagi udon all so – so!” scoffs the Korean woman. “Handsome man eat kimchi wrap, most delicious!”
  The three women start to bicker amongst themselves about which dish is the best while the man slips past and over to the counter to wait to be seated. Once the waiter has approached and ushered him to his seat, he asks what the deal is with the women at the door.
  “Oh, them?” laughs the waiter. “Don’t worry too much about them, they’re just the recommend Asians.”
• I visited Korea recently, and the thing I was most excited about was the kimchi – making process. I wanted to see how it was done traditionally, so I went to the tiny villages with grandmas that do it the old – fashioned way.
  When I got there, I realized they spoke little English, so I brought a translator with me. This little old grandma took me to the back of her house and started to dig up a hole in the snow. I was rather confused, but she soon unearthed a clay jar. The translator explained that kimchi – making was a preservation method for wintertime, so I didn’t ask her more about it.
  She then uttered some Korean words, like a chant, while she stirred the contents of the jar. I watched quietly, a bit unsettled. The translator assured me that chanting while stirring makes the kimchi taste better in the end. When the old woman was done with the first jar, she moved on to the next, and so on and so forth. I was so amazed at how she preserved so much food with only clay jars, without any tin cans like the Americans were familiar with.
  I guess the kimchi – making process is in many ways, quite uncanny.
• A Korean man has been quite sick for some time, has had tests and is now at the doctors for the results.
  “I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you. You only have a few months to live”.
  “Doctor, is there anything I can do to stop it?”
  “You can avoid all fatty and spicy food. Don’t touch alcohol. Give up tea and coffee and drink only water. Avoid chocolate and anything with sugar in. Go to bed at 10.00 each night and don’t do anything that gets you in the least bit excited.”
  The man was devastated – it meant no more samgyupsal, kimchi, soju, and all the other Korean delicacies. But he was willing to try, but only if it was proven effective.
  “Are you sure it will that make me live longer, Doc?”
  “Not really, but it will seem longer.”