There aren't quite as many Peanuts comic strips focused on food as one might expect. Little kids do tend to live their lives in the windows between meals and snacks, and Snoopy is as obsessed with his suppertime as any other dog, but food humor was a relatively low priority in Charles Schulz's punchline rotation. Compared to baseball, philosophy, Snoopy's alternate personas, or Charlie Brown's truly existential levels of depression, food as a topic in Peanuts was kept on a low boil.

Even so, there are a few go-to gags in Peanuts focused on various characters' culinary preferences. Snoopy in particular has a diet that would be troubling for a human, let alone a dog, with a marked preference for root beer and chocolate chip cookies. Peppermint Patty likes donuts, both Lucy and Woodstock are big fans of grape jelly, and on one memorable occasion in 1952, Charlie Brown lost a fight with a stick of butter.

Just the same, there are a handful of solid food-themed jokes across Peanuts' 49-year history. Here are five of our picks for some of the best edible (joke) arrangements in Peanuts.

In the first couple of years of Peanuts' run, Snoopy was depicted as an ordinary, if expressive, dog. He didn't get his now-trademark interior monologue until March 1952, didn't start walking upright until 1956, and didn't start going on his Walter Mitty imaginary journeys until 1965.

In one of his earliest appearances, Snoopy is simply a dog who’s watching someone eat.

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