Scooby Snacks
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Scooby Snacks (Scooby Snax) are a fictional food item 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), Scooby 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.
In Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins it is revealed that Shaggy made up the recipe which includes sugar, flour, dog kibble for texture, and other ingredients.
The official brand of dog treats is made by Snausages, a product of Del Monte Foods.
Other uses of the term
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- There is also a cocktail called "the Scooby snack".
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- 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 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.
- Scooby Snacks are often thought to be 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. These snacks are actually called "Scooby Doo Graham Cracker Sticks". Retrieved 2008-07-31.
- The term Scooby Snacks is also sometimes used to refer to cookies that contain cannabis and have been baked to reproduce the properties of the drug when eaten.
References
- ^ "What a Night for a Knight". Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. Season 1. Episode 1. 1969-09-13. CBS.
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