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Abba-Zaba

A favorite snack of a young Don Van "Captain Beefheart" Vliet, it lent its name to a song that appears on his 1967 Safe as Milk album.

Ampo snack

Ampo is a snack made by soil originated from Central Java and East Java, Indonesia.

Arnotts

Arnott's Biscuits, an Australian biscuit and salted snack food company

Besana

Initially with almonds from Puglia and Sicily region (Italy) and in the early 60’s with Brazil nuts, Pecan nuts, dried fruit, seeds, pistachios, pine kernels, Macadamia nuts and finally the snack lines.

Bhaji on the Beach

In Mumbai, Pav Bhaji is a popular beach side snack food, consisting of bhaji (a thick potato-based curry) garnished with coriander, chopped onion, and a dash of lemon and lightly toasted pav (a type of bread).

Blair's Sauces and Snacks

Blair's Sauces and Snacks is a United States snack company founded in 1989, most famous for their Death Sauce line of hot sauces, which are of low to high Scoville heat ratings.

Bradlees

In 1993, Bradlees added Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Dunkin' Donuts items to some of the stores that didn't have snack stands as well as new stores constructed during this time.

Buddy Fruits

Buddy Fruits was the Official Healthy Snack of the 2013 Sony Open Tennis in Miami, Florida.

Burnt Weeny Sandwich

The album's unusual title, Zappa would later say in an interview, comes from an actual snack that he enjoyed eating, consisting of a burnt Hebrew National hot dog sandwiched between two pieces of bread with mustard.

Canadian Forces Exchange System

CANEX also operates Snack Bars, Coffee Shops (branded CANEX and Tim Hortons), Restaurants (branded CANEX, Pizza Pizza and Bleachers Sports Bars), Barber Shops and Vending Operations.

Charmhaven, New South Wales

Charmhaven is home to a Kellogg's snack and cereral plant, but it is closing in 2014 and production moved to Thailand.

Chicken 65

Chicken 65 is a spicy, deep-fried chicken dish originating from Andhra, India, as a bar snack, entree, or quick snack.The flavour of the dish comes from ginger, cayenne pepper, mustard powder and vinegar although the exact recipe can vary.

Chubby Dudley

Ragni rarely wrestled, but would accompany his storyline half-brothers to ringside, normally while holding a cake, Crunchberries or other snack.

Crackerjack

Cracker Jack, a snack consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts

Currywurst

The song "Currywurst" on Herbert Grönemeyer's 1982 album Total Egal is a tribute to the snack.

Deep fryer

Industrial enterprises producing deep-fried snack foods such as potato chips or pre-fried French fried potatoes use automated frying systems that consist mainly of the actual frying pan, a tube type heat exchanger to heat the frying oil, a filter, a circulation pump, a banana tank for fresh oil and the automation system, most often a PLC.

Duros

Duros (food), a crisp Mexican snack made of hardened wheat flour that has been deep fried.

East Oakland, Oakland, California

Also, many long-time industrial jobs in the area disappeared as the economy changed and factories along the Southern Pacific railroad tracks shut down, most notably regional facilities for Granny Goose, a regional snack foods brand, and Gerber.

Ginsters

Since the 1990s the product range has been extended to include a variety of pasties, savoury slices, sausage rolls, pork pies, hot pies, snacks, sandwiches, flatbreads, wraps and packaged salads.

Higgins Armory Museum

Norman Rockwell drew an imagined scene in the Higgins armory museum, titled Midnight Snack, for the November 3, 1962 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Jeow bong

It's also a condiment for a Lao riverweed snack called Kaipen.

Jerry G. Bishop

The show's title was derived from Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a yellow, sugary glazed popcorn snack, first produced in the 1960s.

Karinto

In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, police detective Ema Skye constantly eats karinto on duty (the snack was localized as chocolate-flavored "Snackoos").

MacRobertson's

The newly merged company continued to manufacture many of the former company's products including: Freddo, Old Gold, Snack, Columbines and Cherry Ripe; which continued to display the company's distinctive logo on its wrapper until 2002.

Maddur vada

Also known as Maddur vada, this snack derives its name from the town of Maddur which is in the Mandya district of Karnataka.

Mike Bossy

He started out doing promotional work for Humpty Dumpty in the late 1990s, a snack-food manufacturer based in eastern Canada.

Mirchi Bada

Mirchi Bada (chili cutlet) is a spicy Indian snack consisting of chili (Mirchi) and potato stuffing, served hot with tomato sauce or occasionally with mint and tamarind chutney.

OreSkaBand

The band received media attention from their appearance in a commercial advertising the popular Japanese snack Pocky, as well as having their song Jitensha featured as the 13th Naruto: Shippuden anime ending theme.

Panjiri

Panjiri is an Indian and Pakistani sweet snack, treated as a nutritional supplement.

Pathiri

Irachi pathiri or Irachi Pathil is very popular in North Malabar and is a very common Snack in areas of Thalassery, Vadakara and Malappuram.

Pimp That Snack

Initially known as 'Pimp My Snack', the site changed name during May 2006 following contact from Viacom legal representatives, who claimed that the name of the website was an infringement on trademarks relating to their Pimp My Ride television program.

Polish Festival @ Federation Square

A range of services and merchandise is sold at marquees around the main stage, while food stalls along the Yarra Terrace serve traditional Polish dishes, snacks and beverages.

Ramaa: The Saviour

Snobbish Komal (Ananya Shukla) and her brother, Kunal (Koustov Ghosh); Sameer (Arjun Nandwani) - who is always ready for a snack; and siblings of smart class monitor Riddhi Ishita Panchal: Rohan (Meghan Yadhav) and Sanj (Zankhi Pabari) - participate in a dance competition whose winner will be given the recently released video game "The Last Battle".

RuBisCO

The term "RuBisCO" was coined humorously in 1979, by David Eisenberg at a seminar honouring the retirement of the early, prominent RuBisCO researcher, Sam Wildman, and also alluded to the snack food trade name "Nabisco" in reference to Wildman's attempts to create edible tobacco leaves.

Scooby Snacks

In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, a treat known as Mellow Mutt Munchie was offered as an alternative to the Scooby Snack.

Shankarpali

It is a popular snack amongst the Gujarati & maharashrian community in India, where it is known as "shakarpara".

Tanghulu

This snack can be found widely along the Beijing snack street Wangfujing and also there are street vendors who travel from place to place selling it.

The God of Small Things

The day before Margarget and Sophie arrive, the family visits a theatre to see The Sound of Music, where Estha is molested by the "Orangedrink Lemondrink Man", a vendor working the snack counter of the theatre.

The Old Mill

The Old Mill is featured in the World of Color presentation at Disney California Adventure Park, and there is a snack stand called 'The Old Mill' in an actual windmill at Disneyland Paris

The Panderers

LittleBigPlanet Sony PS3 game television commercial ad campaign - (Song: Come On - Snack Bar 2008)

Tsukemono

They are served with rice as okazu (side dish), with drinks as an otsumami (snack), as an accompaniment to or garnish for meals, and as a course in the kaiseki portion of a Japanese tea ceremony.

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

Yuzukoshō

Calbee makes snack foods such as potato chips that are flavored as yuzukoshō, but they are found in only certain locations.


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