Eddie and I got a four-pound bag of Trail Mix from Costco over the weekend and have already made a pretty good dent in it. Because I like "fun facts" here is some info about trail mix, courtesy of Wikipedia:-In New Zealand and Australia, trail mix is known as scroggin. The name scroggin is an acronym, taken from the first letter of eight ingredients: sultana grapes, chocolate, raisins, orange peel, ginger, glucose (sugar), improvisation or imagination (i.e., the chef is supposed to add a favorite ingredient), and nuts.
-The word gorp, an alternative name for trail mix, may stand for "good old raisins and peanuts","granola, oats, raisins, and peanuts", or "gobs of raw protein". These are probably backronyms or folk etymology. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily".
-Trail mix is known as studenterhavre ("student's oats") in Denmark, studentenhaver in the Netherlands and Belgium and Studentenfutter ("student's food") in Germany.
-The word gorp, an alternative name for trail mix, may stand for "good old raisins and peanuts","granola, oats, raisins, and peanuts", or "gobs of raw protein". These are probably backronyms or folk etymology. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily".
-Trail mix is known as studenterhavre ("student's oats") in Denmark, studentenhaver in the Netherlands and Belgium and Studentenfutter ("student's food") in Germany.
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