28 Juicy Tomato Puns to Ketchup on Some Fun

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By Emma Green
  1. A tomato’s peak performance is brief. Like most internet trends.

  2. Tomatoes are 95% water, 5% existential crisis.

  3. Ripen too fast, and you’re wasted. Ripen too slow, and you’re ignored.

  4. Every tomato thinks it’s sauce-worthy. Most aren’t.

  5. They said, “You’re a fruit.” The tomato said, “I’m complicated.”

  6. One moment you’re farm-fresh. The next, a soggy sandwich regret.

  7. The only fruit that made enemies in both the kitchen and the fridge.

  8. Red on the outside. Empty on the inside.

  9. Store-bought tomatoes: bland, pale lies wrapped in plastic.

  10. Tomatoes age faster than memes.

  11. The tomato didn’t cross the road. It rotted on the vine.

  12. Tossed in salad, ignored until the dressing hits.

  13. A tomato’s fate? Either crushed or pureed.

  14. From vine to vinegar — some lives are just downhill.

  15. Heirloom tomatoes: overpriced nostalgia in edible form.

  16. Nothing divides a family like “do we refrigerate the tomatoes?”

  17. Tomato soup: where soft tomatoes go to hide their shame.

  18. Pizza’s best friend. Burger’s soggy downfall.

  19. Ketchup is what happens when you give up on texture.

  20. A tomato’s dream is to become bruschetta. Most wake up as compost.

  21. Tomatoes don’t scream — but they do burst under pressure.

  22. When life gives you tomatoes, it’s probably too late to make salsa.

  23. Sliced thin, served cold — like revenge.

  24. Tomatoes don’t tell jokes. They just sit there, rotting slowly.

  25. Nature’s way of reminding you that ripeness is temporary.

  26. Vine-ripened, then shelf-shamed.

  27. A tomato is just a peach that lost its way.

  28. Even the juiciest tomato ends up in landfill if no one cares.

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