Scooby Snacks

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Front of a box of Scooby Snacks from Suncoast.

Scooby Snacks (Scooby Snax) are a fictional food item of unknown and undetermined origin. They are used as a form of incentive payment for the cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from the Hanna-Barbera series Scooby-Doo and its various spin-offs. College-age fans of the series have long maintained that, given the attraction they hold for Shaggy (a blatant hipster-stoner type), Scoobie snacks are actually a metaphor for cannabis.[1] Producer William Hanna had always imagined that a Scooby Snack would taste like some sort of a caramel-flavored cookie. 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. Ingredients:Ground wheat, grain sorghum, animal fat (BHA used as a preservative), meat by-products, salt, beef and bone meal, caramel color, animal plasma, beef, dried cheese product, potassium sorbate (used as a preservative), bacon, chicken, natural smoke flavor, FD&C yellow #5, minerals (ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), vitamins (vitamin E supplement, niacin supplement, vitamin A supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement), FD&C yellow #6, FD&C red #40.

Guaranteed Analysis %:

moisture (max.) 12

Crude protein (min.) 11

crude fat (min.) 5

crude fiber (max.) 4

[edit] Other uses of the term

Back of a box of Scooby Snacks from Suncoast.
  • 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.[Need quotation on talk to verify]
  • 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.

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