Summary
There are certain things aboutGarfieldthat will always be true, no matter the comic strip era or the medium of adaptation, and one of them is his love for lasagna. While it’s true thatGarfield loves pranking Jonand tormenting Odie (a love that equalsGarfield’s hatred for Mondays), nothing can top the way he feels about lasagna - and there are more than a few examples to pull from proving as much.
Garfield’s love for lasagna goes well beyond a favorite food, as Garfield is borderline obsessed with the dish. Sometimes Garfield will dive head-first into a pan of lasagna (ruining Jon’s dinner as a result), and other times he’ll use lasagna as a litmus test to see if he should like someone or not, as Garfield doesn’t trust others who don’t also enjoy lasagna. However, one shouldn’t express too much interest in lasagna around Garfield, as he’s not afraid to murder someone to defend his favorite dish (yes, really). Here are10 of the funniest comics showcasing Garfield’s love for lasagna!
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10Garfield Debuts His Love for Lasagna by Presenting It as a Normal Cat Trait
Garfield- August 20, 2025
This comic strip marks the first time Garfield ever admits that he loves lasagna, and the way he does it is absolutely hilarious. Breaking the fourth wall,Garfield explains to the reader that he’s just an ordinary cat, who likes things that every other ordinary cat likes, including “nature’s most perfect food… lasagna!”, at which point, Garfield pulls a pan of lasagna out of nowhere and starts chowing down.
Obviously, cats aren’t naturally drawn to lasagna, with the joke here being that Garfield’s love for this pasta dish is decidedly weird, even if he doesn’t know it. While this might have originally been meant as a single, absurdGarfieldgag, it laid the groundwork for establishing a major aspect of Garfield’s entire personality.
9When Garfield is Deprived of One of His Loves, He Seeks Out Another
Garfield- Jul 23, 2025
While Mondays are famously Garfield’s most hated days of the week, it seems Thursdays might be his favorite, as that’s the day Jon usually makes lasagna. However, on this particular Thursday, while Garfield is excitedly waiting for his favorite dinner, Jon offers him a bowl of cat food instead. Garfield is deprived of one of his greatest loves, and in response, he seeks out another: messing with Jon.
Garfield throws his cat food bowl at the back of Jon’s head to punish him for not making lasagnafor dinner. While Garfield is definitely upset that he didn’t get lasagna, he at least was given the opportunity to engage in something else he loves doing, though even messing with Jon cannot compare to the happiness Garfield feels while eating lasagna.
Garfield- July 29, 2025
Contrary to Garfield’s belief, sometimes Jon makes lasagna just for himself, without the intention of sharing it with his cat. Indeed, giving Garfield his first bite of lasagna was probably the worst thing Jon could have done. Not just because giving a cat lasagna is not something a responsible pet owner should do, but because Garfield now thinks that every pan of lasagna Jon makes is for him.
In this case,Garfield dives head-first into Jon’s lasagna, ruining the entire dishbefore Jon has a chance to even get himself a scoop. It seems after Jon gave Garfield cat food instead of lasagna in the previous strip, the orange cat is not taking any more chances, attacking any lasagna Jon makes, whether he’s offered any or not.
7Jon Regrets Ever Adopting Garfield After One Lasagna Incident
Garfield- August 03, 2025
As Jon is enjoying a pan of lasagna, commenting on how much he loves the dish, Garfield comes out of nowhere and gobbles the whole thing up. Within seconds, the entire pan of lasagna is gone, leaving Garfield full and content, while Jon is filled with nothing but regret. Jon, breaking the fourth wall, looks directly at the reader and details exactly how he came to adopt Garfield, and why he now regrets it, calling Garfield not a cat, but “a lasagna with fur and fangs”.
Jon is saying that Garfield eats so much lasagna, that he’s practically a walking lasagna himself. However, what’s more hilarious than that description of the fat orange cat is the fact thatJon regrets everything after Garfield eats his dinner.
6Garfield Loves Lasagna So Much, He’ll Eat It Until He Pops (Literally)
Garfield- August 14, 2025
Garfield is famously a fat, lazy cat, but in this comic strip, he absolutely outdoes himself. As Jon points out, Garfield’s stomach has gotten so big, that his legs no longer reach the ground. Garfield is just stuck sitting on his own gut, unable to move without assistance. Jon shames Garfield, asking him what he’s going to do now. To that, Garfield responds, “I’ll show you what I’m going to do if you’ll just roll me over to that lasagna there”.
Even whenGarfield has gorged himself to the point of immobility, he’s still ready to take down an entire pan of lasagnaif given the chance. At this point, lasagna is more than just something Garfield loves, but perhaps something he’s legitimately addicted to, as he seems ready to eat it until he pops.
5Garfield Murdered His Pet Ant for Eyeballing His Lasagna
Garfield- July 24, 2025
It’s one thing to be protective of one’s own food, but it’s another thing entirely to murder someone who merely looks at one’s food, as that is decidedly frowned upon in a civilized society. But, frowned upon or not, that’s exactly what Garfield did. After introducing readers to his pet ant, Lyle, Garfield crushes him seemingly for no reason. And thenGarfield explains that Lyle was eyeballing his lasagna, which he gave as the reason for taking his pet ant’s life.
Garfield has always been a bit mean spirited, but that usually manifested in his pranks on either Jon or Odie. Never before has Garfield so callously taken a life, especially the life of a loved one (given that Lyle was his pet). But, the fact that he did only speaks to how strongly Garfield feels about lasagna.
4Garfield’s Love for Lasagna Hilariously Backfires (& He Blames Jon for It)
Garfield- August 07, 2025
On one of the nights when lasagna is a sanctioned meal for Garfield, Jon leaves a fresh pan on the counter for the orange cat, who excitedly sprints over to his favorite food. However, earlier that day, Jon waxed the counter tops, making them extra slippery.Given Garfield’s uncharacteristically high-speed, he fell victim to the slipperiness of the counter, and slid right past the lasagnaand off the edge. When Jon explains the situation, Garfield blames him for his predicament, vowing, “When my bones knit, you are a dead man”.
While Jon probably should have let Garfield know about the counters, it’s also fair of him to assume that Garfield wouldn’t move fast enough for the counters' slipperiness to matter. But, because of how excited he was about the lasagna, Garfield moved fast enough to slide right off, meaning his love for lasagna hilariously backfired.
3Garfield Uses Lasagna to Decide Who He Likes/Dislikes - Including His Own ‘Son’
Garfield- July 01, 2025
When Garfield is present for a bird hatching from their egg, he imprints on the baby bird, who initially thinks Garfield is his mom. Garfield then corrected the baby bird, saying that he can’t be a mom because he’s a boy - prompting the bird to start calling him “daddy” instead. In this comic strip, Garfield once again tells the bird that he’s not his parent, but decides to be kind and offer the bird some lasagna anyway, which the bird refuses.
After Garfield’s ‘son’ refused to eat the lasagna, Garfield knew right then and there that he didn’t like him, saying, “No son of mine would refuse lasagna!”. It’s hilarious that Garfield uses lasagna as something of a litmus test to decide if someone is worth liking, and in this case, that also applies to his own ‘son’.
2Jon Accepts His Fate, Switching Meals with Garfield on Lasagna Night
Garfield- July 06, 2025
Any other night, Jon might be able to feed Garfield regular cat food, but on ‘Lasagna Night’, Garfield is having himself lasagna, even if he has to take it by force - which is exactly what he does in this comic strip. Just like when Garfield threw his food bowl at Jon in a previous strip, the orange cat did not take kindly to being given cat food when Jon made lasagna. However, instead of resorting to violence, Garfield went straight to thievery.
What’s even funnier thanGarfield stealing Jon’s lasagna is that Jon totally accepts his fate, and just starts eating Garfield’s cat food. Jon has learned that there’s nothing to be done once Garfield decides that he’s going to eat lasagna, and he figured that eating cat food is better than having no dinner at all.
1Garfield Clarifies His ‘Love’ for Lasagna (& It’s Hilarious)
Garfield- July 12, 2025
At this point, it’s well established that Garfield loves lasagna - or, does he? It’s been assumed, based on how utterly crazy he goes for the pasta dish, that his feelings for it were nothing short of pure, passionate, unconditional love. However, in this comic strip,Garfield clarifies that it’s not love for lasagna at all, it’s lust. Garfield doesn’t love lasagna, he merely has an intense craving for it every now and again, and when the lasagna is eaten, he feels nothing.
This clarification is absolutely hilarious, as it frames Garfield’s ‘relationship’ with his favorite food as more romantic in nature (or, more accurately, a relationship that lacks romance). This comic strip offers a hysterical spin onGarfield’s love for lasagna, making it one of the 10 best in the entire franchise.
Garfield
Garfield is the central character in Jim Davis’s comic strip, which officially began in 1978 under the same name. Garfield is an orange tabby cat with a love of lasagna and a disdain for Mondays. He tends to torment his owner and dog while trying to secure more food - and quiet.
