YOU'RE THE BUN THAT I WANT

Food-based puns inspired by popular tunes echo sentiments of love and togetherness.

A mustachioed tea bag and a smiling teacup beam at readers (“Hellllloooo, is it tea you’re looking for?”). A grinning burger cuts loose on a diner counter (“You’re the bun that I want!”). A pair of doughnuts—one big, one tiny—in matching headphones groove to the beat (“Donut worry, be happy!”). A tortilla in a wide-brimmed hat and boots gleefully strums a guitar (“Let’s give ’em somethin’ to taco ’bout”). Food items caper and cavort, set against jazzy backdrops filled with stars, swirling lines, and musical notes. Between the pastries and the sweet expressions of love, it’s all a tad on the saccharine side; still, it’s hard to resist a smile while reading. Youngsters may not know all the songs and artists referenced—among them Taylor Swift, Neil Diamond, and Bobby McFerrin—but adults can easily fill in the gaps, and the winsome foods, with their simply rendered expressions and stick figure arms and legs, have a kawaii charm, from the strips of bacon rocking out to the sunglass-sporting pot of strawberry jam exhorting readers to “pump up the JAM!” to the grinning olives performing karaoke.

Cheesy fun.