"Finger foods” are small edibles that are eaten using fingers, but sometimes, as some jokes have it, “finger foods” are actually fingers. A joke was posted on the website Pun of the Day on October 6, 2011:
“The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew silent when he announced he would be serving finger foods.”
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Terry Johnson
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The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew silent when he announced he would be serving finger foods.[Click to Vote!]
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3:14 AM - 6 Oct 2011
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Pun of the Day: The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew silent when he announced he would be serving finger foods. #groaner
11:37 AM - 6 Oct 2011
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The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew silent when he announced he would be serving finger foods. #punny
11:51 AM - 6 Dec 2011
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Pun of the day:
The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew excited when announced he would be serving finger foods. #GallopCreativePun
11:36 AM - 10 Mar 2016
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lorraine Jo King
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The crowd at the Cannibal’s party grew silent when he announced he would be serving finger foods.”
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10:24 AM - 1 Jul 2018
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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