Takeout Food Words: Pizza, Sushi, Tacos and Burgers

Eight favorites from a Friday night takeout menu: pizza, sushi, tacos, burgers, noodles, a sub, a wrap and a bowl. They come from Italy, Japan, Mexico, the United States and East Asia, which says a lot about how food travels.

Bowl, pizza and taco run upward, and noodle and sushi read backwards.

Takeout Foods Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 5 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Burger and Noodle, with 6 letters each.

Bowl: A meal served in a bowl, like a poke, burrito or grain bowl.
Burger: A patty of ground meat served in a bun, the classic American fast food.
Noodle: Noodles from a Chinese, Thai or Japanese takeout, often eaten from the box.
Pizza: The most famous takeout food of all, delivered hot in a cardboard box.
Sub: A submarine sandwich, a long roll filled with meat, cheese and vegetables.
Sushi: Japanese vinegared rice with raw fish, seafood or vegetables.
Taco: Tacos from a taqueria or food truck.
Wrap: A soft tortilla rolled around a filling.

How to Solve the Takeout Foods Word Search

"Pizza" has the only Z, a double one, and runs upward. "Sub" and "sushi" both start with SU: sub runs down, sushi reads backwards. "Burger" is the longest word and the only one that reads normally across.

Menu and Ordering Games for Kids

Play restaurant: one child takes the order, another serves it.
Find the country each food comes from on a world map.
Ask children to design a takeout menu with prices.