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, Where Are You! 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.

Scooby Snacks have also become associated with illegal drugs due to the character Shaggy — whose large appetite and unusually effective metabolism have caused many viewers to wonder what exactly is in "Scooby Snacks."

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Other uses of the term

  • Because "Scooby" closely resembles "doobie", the term "Scooby Snacks" is also a reference for smoking pot (cannabis). It means a "special treat" among friends; a break from the day; a temporary get away; and escaping stress. Example, "Hey, can you bring some Scooby Snacks to the party?" or "I could sure use a Scooby Snack right now."
    • "Scooby Snacking" is also a slang term used by bowl smokers for when someone takes a draw from the bowl when the weed inside is nearly all burnt up, and the user inhales a piece of burnt weed into their mouth. The burnt weed is known as the Scooby Snack.
  • Alton Brown (in the episode "Tender is the Loin 1" of the television show Good Eats, aired January 18, 2006) uses the term Scooby Snack to describe: “A secret little delicacy that is saved and savored by the cooks back in the kitchen” (rather than being served on the menu).
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