Scooby Snacks
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Scooby Snacks are a fictional food item of unknown and undetermined origin. Used as a form of bribery for the characters of Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Scooby-Doo and its various spinoffs. Producer William Hanna had always imagined that a "Scooby Snack" would taste like some sort of a caramel-flavored cookie (the batter, however, is colored like brown sugar and similar in color to butterscotch), and he and Joseph Barbera had previously used the concept of a dog that goes wild for doggie treats in the Quick Draw McGraw series in 1959.
Warner Bros. today licenses "Scooby Snacks" as both an official brand of doggie treats and as a human-consumable cookie snack. Vanilla wafers were packaged and sold as "Scooby Snacks" in Suncoast home video stores. The wafers were similar to Nilla Wafers.
[edit] Other uses of the term
- There is also a cocktail called the "Scooby snack". It is made of equal part melon liqueur and coconut-flavored rum, shaken with a splash of pineapple juice, half and half or milk, and ice.
- In Glasgow's late night eateries the term Scooby Snack denotes a roll containing: Lorne sausage, bacon, a fried egg, a Tattie Scone, a beef burger and cheese.
- Alton Brown (in the episode "Tender is the Loin 1" of the television show Good Eats, aired January 18, 2006) uses the term Scooby Snack to describe: “A secret little delicacy that is saved and savored by the cooks back in the kitchen” (rather than being served on the menu).
- Fun Lovin' Criminals' first album contains a song called "Scooby Snacks". In an interview on UK television, the lead singer Huey explained that 'Scooby Snacks' in this case were diazepam (Valium) tablets allowing bank robbers to be so cool.
- In England for a small time they sold crisps, or chips, called Scooby Snacks; they came in several flavors, such as pepperoni pizza.
- Scooby Snacks is a slang name for magic mushroom capsules. The capsules contain Psylocybe Cubensis together with ingredients designed to enhance the experience, such as guarana, fo ti tieng, Spirulina, schisandra, ginseng and bee pollen.
- Drill Instructors in the United States Marine Corps refer to protien based snack food given to recruits as Scooby Snacks, particularly in medical and physical conditioning platoons.
