Food fight!

The prosecution’s star witness against a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued with a defense lawyer Thursday over who first used the term “ziti” to refer to bribe payments in an alleged corruption scheme.

Ex-Albany lobbyist Todd Howe was confronted on cross-examination with a Nov. 12, 2012, email he wrote to Joseph Percoco, who’s accused of pocketing $300,000 in “pay-to-play” graft from two companies doing business with the state.

Percoco lawyer Barry Bohrer suggested the email, in which Howe mentioned “7500 boxes of ziti,” marked the first record of either man using the term.

“Do you recall using the word ziti in any email before Nov. 12, 2012?” Bohrer asked Howe in Manhattan federal court.

“I have no recollection,” Howe answered.

“I don’t know the difference between ziti and angel hair. I eat Italian food — that’s all I know.”

Bohrer also showed Howe a series of other emails in which Howe — who’s admitted serving as the middleman in Percoco’s alleged scam — mentioned ziti.

“You used the term time and time again, correct?” Bohrer asked.

“As did Mr. Percoco,” Howe answered.

“And the record will reflect that Mr. Percoco used the term in response to you,” Bohrer noted.

Howe, who’s spending his fourth day on the witness stand, testified earlier that Percoco called his alleged payoffs “ziti” after hearing it used as code for cash on an episode of the HBO mob drama “The Sopranos.”