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, similar to Nilla Wafers were packaged and sold as "Scooby Snacks" in Suncoast home video stores. The Official brand of dog treats is made by Snausages, a product of Del Monte Foods.

[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.

• 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 the United Kingdom for a small time they sold crisps, or chips, called Scooby Snacks; they came in several flavors with corresponding "spooky" shapes. These included "Cheesy Ribs" and "Tomato Fangs". The fangs could be inserted into one's mouth for novelty purposes.

• 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.^{[citation needed]}

• Drill Instructors in the United States Marine Corps refer to protein based snack food given to recruits as Scooby Snacks, particularly in medical and physical conditioning platoons.^{[citation needed]}

• Scooby Snacks are also the name of a brand of human consumable graham cracker snacks that come in the shape of bite-size dog bones and come in the flavors of cinnamon and honey.

• "Scooby Snacks" is also the slang-term for the ash that is sometimes accidentally inhaled while smoking marijuana from a pipe.^{[citation needed]}