Help finding the name of a snack mix

Does anyone know the name of the snack mix that contains: cheese balls, stick pretzels, peanuts, small crackers, cheerios, + some other things I can't remember. It had a bunch of garlic and salt in it. Thanks!

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Originally posted by lsmiller

Does anyone know the name of the snack mix that contains: cheese balls, stick pretzels, peanuts, small crackers, cheerios, + some other things I can't remember. It had a bunch of garlic and salt in it. Thanks!

It's not "Nuts and Bolts" is it? Was it thrown together at home or commercially made, I remember enjoying it at parties....

No, Nuts and Bolts does not ring a bell. It was commercially made. I thought Frito-Lay made it but I did not find anything on their website about it.

The one that Frito-Lay makes is called Munchies. It comes in several different varieties.

Gorp.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

Gorp.

You should at least say "Excuse me." Honestly, whatever happened to manners?

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Originally posted by Lucky Bishop

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

Gorp.

You should at least say "Excuse me." Honestly, whatever happened to manners?

Pardon me.

I remembered.. It is called "Tasty Mix" by the company Guys.

It still sounds like the Gorp I used to carry while canoe camping and backpacking.

The trail mix I know as "gorp" is homemade and has M&Ms, peanuts, and raisins. A Girl Scout campout staple. Not familiar with the snack combo Ismiller described.

Any ideas on the origin of the name "gorp"? I was (and still am) amused by the sound of the word and always wondered how that snack came to have that name. Wild speculations welcomed in the absence of facts.

Salustra: the conventional wisdom is that "gorp" stands for "Good Old Raisins and Peanuts." That's always the story I've heard, and the Trader Joe's bag supports this theory. (There's also a branch that says it stands for "Granola, Oats, Raisins and Peanuts," but personally, I think once granola and oats are involved, you've moved firmly out of gorp and into trail mix.)

I just like the fact that it sounds like a belch, although I think my humor was not entirely clear in my earlier post.

I remember it as raisins, peanuts, pretzel sticks, M&Ms, Chex and some other things I can't recall right now -- all dusted with garlic powder. As to the origin of the name, I'll have to look that up.

There is also a similar one put out by Giardino's...

Guy's Tasty Mix, brings back memories. I bought out the local HenHouse in Merriam, KS when Guys went bankrupt back in 2000. When Guys chips hit the shelf again last year,I kept waiting for it to show up because it is listed as a product on the back of their chip bag. When I couldn't find them, I emailed Guys to ask where I could buy them. The reply last October was sometime the first half of this year.

When they made it, I used to LOVE the Eagle Snack Mix that A-B put out...just the right combo of pretzels,beer-type nuts,and GREAT bacon crackers....

Could it be Gardetto's? A favorite of some friends of mine.....

I just received a reply from Guy's in regards to Tasty-Mix. Their timetable has been pushed back and they are now aiming at the last quarter of this year for a reintroduction.

Was it Chex Party Mix?

It surely sounds to me that you are describing Gardetto's Snack Mix!

Many people say that GORP is an acronym for "Good Old Raisins and Peanuts" and other similar things. They're wrong, I'm sorry to say. It's actually a reverse acronym, where the word came first and then the acronym. (Another example of this is the work PHAT, which is now said to come from "Pretty Hot And Tempting.") The actual origins of the word gorp are somewhat mysterious and puzzle etymologists.
"Some dictionaries point rather uneasily to some appearances of the word as a verb from earlier in the twentieth century. In 1904, the publication Dialect Notes noted that to gorp was to eat greedily; this is backed up by other references recorded in the Dictionary of American Regional English. A possible link is obvious enough, though a direct connection isn't recorded and etymologists have to be cautious.
In turn, that word may be one form of an older English verb variously spelled as gaup, gawp, gorp, gowp, gawk, or gauk. One basic meaning is to stare in a stupid or rude manner. But an earlier sense was of staring open-mouthed in witless astonishment. This seems to have led to gawp up, meaning to devour (presumably from the open-mouthed bit of the meaning), which just might have led to the early twentieth-century American dialect sense from which our sense may have later derived. Sorry to hedge my language so heavily, but we really don't know for sure."

Incidentally, Australians and New Zealanders would prefer to call it scroggin, a word that was created in New Zealand, probably among mountaineers in South Island, but whose origin is even more mysterious than that of gorp, if that were possible. It is said to be an acronym from Sultanas, Currants, Raisins, Orange (peel), Ginger and Nuts, a neat parallel to the story about the origin of gorp, but equally unlikely to be true.