There’s someone on Instagram I’ve been following for a while, enjoying her posts. Her name’s Anabelle, but she goes by brickswhynot on social media. She has a hashtag called todayslegopart, where she talks about parts she likes, new parts and sometimes new sets. One of her most recent posts was about LEGO food. It looked interesting, so I thought I’d write a bit about it.
I haven’t been purchasing sets until recently, since they’ve started to become too good to refuse. However, I’ve been getting minifigures, animals, and parts that looked interesting to me for a long while. LEGO food is among my favorites. I wanted to have the parts I’ve wanted in case I made a scene with them, so I’ve collected more than I care to admit over the years. It’s easy to write about some of these, they have their own category in Bricklink. But some of them aren’t that easy, because they’re under the decorated tile category. That means looking over each and every single tile (just 1782 of them) and picking the ones with food prints. Well then, we better get started!
PS: I didn’t include the ones with stickers on purpose.
PS 2: Remember I said 1782 of them? Apparently, those are just round tiles. When I saw the number 8777 next to rectangular tiles, I thought “Yeah I’m not looking through all those!” My apologies if I missed any because of that.
LEGO Vegetables and Fruits
You know, eating healthy is very important. Same goes for the minifigures, right? We have apples, cherries, bananas, carrots, pumpkins, peaches and corn. There are also two banana peels (one of them smiling :) ), and a bundle of bananas. Most of these parts can be found in various colors.
The printed parts include a peach, a strawberry, and slices of watermelon, lemon, lime, orange and cucumber. There are also sunflower seeds, acorns and walnuts.
Of course, there are also some parts that weren’t designed as food but can be used like that anyway. The first ones that come to my mind are sweet potatoes (originally rocks), red peppers (teeth or nails) and grapes (the ice cream part I’ll mention later).
LEGO Meat, Poultry, Fish, Egg and Cheese Parts
There are many fish for fish lovers. They may look the same, but I assure you, they’re different. Just look at their colors!
There’s only a turkey piece under the poultry category, and of course, the drumsticks. There are two different turkey bodies and three different drumsticks. There are some subtle differences between the bodies. The drumsticks change in size; they come as 20, 22 and 23 mm.
There’s only one red meat part. A steak printed in red and dark red.
Then there’s the sausage, very widely used. Like in real life, you can find the LEGO sausage in different flavors, too. There are many sets it’s used as something else, but when it’s food, it’s red, dark red, bright light orange and medium nougat. Oh, and black for the burnt ones.
We have a lot of eggs in different colors, both printed and unprinted. The white and the tan ones seem the most realistic ones to me. There are also three parts for those who like their eggs fried; 1×1, 2×2 round tiles and one that looks like a splat.
Even though the cheese slope has been around forever, there’s only one part that was produced to resemble cheese: The one that comes with Speedy Gonzales from the Looney Tunes CMF.
LEGO Bread
Did you know the LEGO baguette is one of the oldest food parts? I always thought it was a newer piece, but it’s been around since 1982. It comes in four different colors: Tan, medium nougat, earth orange and light yellow.
We already mentioned the sausage, but what about the buns? There’s a special part so you can make as many hot dogs as you want. It’s usually found in tan, but there’s also one in medium nougat. As for burgers, you can use unprinted parts for buns, but we also have two special parts with sesame seeds on them.
My favorite is the loaf from 2018. It comes with the first Harry Potter CMF series and hasn’t been seen since then.
There’s also a pretzel. It can be found in sets since 2012, only in medium nougat.
Ready to serve
One of the oldest dishes is the pizza, comes printed on 2×2 round tiles. Sliced? Not sliced? It’s up to you. If you’re thinking there’s no way my minifigure can eat the whole pizza by themselves, no worries. We also have two pizza slices, printed on 1×1 quarter tiles.
There are two dishes that come with the Dolphin Point (6414) set from 1995, under the theme Paradisa. One has fries and a sausage, the other looks like a schnitzel along with peas and carrots.
Tacos are relatively newer, first released in 2018. There are two different colors and three different prints, all printed on 1×1 quarter tiles.
The next dish serving is from Heartlake City Restaurant (41379) in 2019, spaghetti with meatballs. It’s followed by a ramen noodle with veggies dish, from Pigsy’s Noodle Tank (80026) in 2021.
The sushi was first released in 2016, and then in 2017 and 2022 with different prints. The small rice balls is from 2021, noodles from 2024. They’re all printed on 1×1 round tiles.
The Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner (80101) set features a feast! Even though I don’t know which dishes all of them represent, some look really tasty.
Two new LEGO food parts come with the Restaurant and Cooking School (42655) set of this year, both with brand new moulds. One of them is a dumpling and the other is spaghetti, sharing the mould of the ball of yarn.
Desserts
It seems desserts have always been important to the LEGO Group. The release year of the first dessert part and the many different types prove that.
LEGO Ice Cream
The oldest LEGO dessert part is ice cream. Released in 1995, it has four scoops on it and comes in 16 different colors, 11 of them still in production. You can place it on top of the goblet part as well as the cone piece released in 2013. The cone has two realistic colors that can be used, tan and dark orange.
There are two parts that can be used for a creamier look. One is the spiraling part released in 2013. The other originally came with the Dog Sitter in 2019 and has a special place in our hearts. Still, we gotta admit it looks great as an ice cream :)
We also have a popsicle released in 1998, coming in many different flavors.
There’s another ice cream part that was released in 1998 but never made it to the next year. The cone and the ice cream were moulded together, and only found in Belville and Scala sets. It comes in white, yellow and earth orange.
LEGO Cake, Cookie, Croissant, Donut and Waffle
The first cakes come with Belville and Scala, and if you ask me, they look really great considering their release date (1997-2001). There are three different cakes using the same mould. There was a muffin released in 2002, using the chef hat mould, again, only in Belville. It looks good but for some reason didn’t last.
A pie is released in 2011, the size is more fitting for a minifigure. It has a cream filling at first and moves on to other flavors in the following years.
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CMF series in 2018, we get a giant cake with a minifigure coming out of it. In 2020, the icing and the cake separates. Icings with different colors are produced to put on 2×2 and 4×4 round bricks.
These are just the ones with their own moulds. There are two more, printed on a 2×2 round tile, and a 1×1 printed quarter tile. Put four of these together and you get the whole pie!
The cookies are generally printed on 1×1 round tiles. There are so many, it’s almost impossible to not find something you like.
There are two different croissant moulds. The first one’s from 1998, with rounded ends. The second’s from 2017 and has flat ends. Both have different colors, but when used as food, usually orange tones are preferred. This year’s Restaurant and Cooking School (42655) set has a new color, tan.
The donut and waffle pieces can both be found printed on 1×1 and 2×2 round tiles.
Bon Appétit!
You know what, the more I look, the more food parts I find. I’m thinking maybe we should wrap up for now. Seriously, I can’t see the end of it. I’m getting hungry, too. Yeah, let’s finish here.
What’s your favorite LEGO food part? Is there one you’re looking forward to? Or…
Alright, alright, shutting up now. See you in the next one!
Some of the images were rendered in Bricklink Studio. Some were borrowed from various pages like Brickset, Bricklink, New Elementary, Jay’s Brick Blog and Brick Banter. I may have taken a few pictures myself, too :)
Some girls play with Barbie dolls, while others create small worlds with LEGO minifigures and continue to do so when they grow up. You can probably guess which group I belong to :)
