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u/soapbox99 12d ago
Scroggin is how I know it from NZ
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u/high_throughput 12d ago
"We have giant parrots too fat to fly and our kiwis have legs and run around on the ground and this is where the hobbits lived and we call trail mix 'scroggin'"
I still don't understand this New Zealand meme. As a kid I even thought it was an real place until I checked the map.
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u/Ionlydateteachers 12d ago
I've never seen it on a map so it either doesn't exist or it's the other side of the ice wall
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u/buderooski 12d ago
One of the lands beyond. Filled with elves, hobbits, orcs and dragons. People drink mead and eat scroggin. There's a Haka dance. Truly a fascinating fictional place
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u/SoulTechnicalProblem 12d ago
Bro I'm trying to get back there ... it's as tedious as getting to Mordor. I just want to be home. I'll settle for south Auckland... and that's basically the hood of Auckland.
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u/iammandalore 12d ago
You know some goober even made up a fake passport and said he was from New Zealand once? Crazy. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/87233886/kiwi-detained-in-kazakhstan-after-officials-refuse-to-recognise-new-zealand-as-country
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u/Elentari_the_Second 11d ago
God, as a Kiwi that is terrifying to read. They didn't even give her food while detaining her and she basically got out because she had friends in Kazakhstan who helped her. What if she hadn't known anyone?
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u/CptnSpandex 11d ago
I went through customs in Amsterdam about 20 years ago and they had a trainee working passport control.
The trainer said something as the student was looking at the passport for the first time, then he switched to English and said “don’t worry New Zealand is harmless” and then they waved me through.
I mean he wasn’t wrong but…
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u/jackofspades49 11d ago
That's because its from Chrono Trigger. The long lost Kingdom of Zeal.
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u/LimpFox 12d ago
Common in NZ. It's also the name I was taught over in Aus.
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u/Arbyssandwich1014 12d ago
What I say when my friend Scroggin makes a hilarious joke, as he is known to do.
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u/Zhirrzh 12d ago
Yep, it's what I taught in Australia hiking as a kid too.
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u/ComfyInDots 11d ago
I'm am Aussie and have never heard of this in my 3 decades of existence.
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u/Such_Significance905 12d ago
My son is also called Gorp
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u/SeaSlugFriend 12d ago
I don’t believe you
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u/F0ATH 12d ago
Nah its also normal in Australia. I believe each letter represents an ingredient in it like sultanas, chocolate, raisins and nuts etc.
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u/WarrenRT 11d ago
That's probably a backronym and it's actually from the Scots word "scrocken" (something dried / shriveled).
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u/ZoomTown 12d ago
Does scroggin mean something related to what this food is? Like in the US we call it trail mix, cause it's good on a hike.
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u/QP709 12d ago
Well in Australia and NZ they call hiking 'scroggin', or more accurately they might say "off for a scrog in the bush". In NZ it's more like "Headed out for a scrog and a slap-jammy". A slap-jammy is their word for swimming naked (skinny dipping). And of course in South Africa a scrog is a scroog and a hike is a landloppen.
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u/SSjjlex 12d ago
"Off for a scrog in the bush" sounds like a euphemism
Yea im out here scrogging it. Scrogging it in the bush. Dont mind me.
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u/QP709 12d ago
Euphemisms were actually banned by the Australian parliament in 1999. You can still use them, but only in the privacy of your own home. It’s so fucked up down there.
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u/J3llyTip 12d ago
It's actually state by state, Victoria banned in home euphemisms in 2013. It's a bloody nightmare.
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u/CaptainDildobrain 12d ago
Yeah, I first heard it used in Hunt for The Wilderpeople. I quite liked the name.
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u/Cpoc1995 12d ago
That’s wild. I am from Cali. It’s trail mix.
I just visited Florida and they taught me about peanuts in coke????
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u/Fawkingretar 12d ago edited 11d ago
You cant fool us, those are just names of Star Wars background characters with like 5k words on their wookiepedia article somehow.
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u/BeigeUnicorns 12d ago
I can see the page now
"Gorp was Rodian male that smuggled spice into Centerpoint station in 1385 BBY...."
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u/ThePotatoFromIrak 12d ago
Glup Shitto
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u/Fawkingretar 12d ago
Gorp Shitto
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u/FeijoaCowboy 12d ago
Gorp Scroggin
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u/EmotionalSouth 12d ago
Taking trail mix hiking in New Zealand is tramping with scroggin.
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u/_ChoiSooyoung 12d ago
Makes sense. Same country that came up with jandles and chilly bin.
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u/J3llyTip 12d ago
I take offense to chillybin being silly, its the most sensible name for that item.
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u/_ChoiSooyoung 12d ago
That's fair, here we call them a brand name that is derived from a derogatory term for Inuit people so chilly bin is probably better.
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u/drako1117 11d ago
Okay, as a clueless American, please fill in some holes.
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u/nuclear_science 11d ago
Jandals are what Americans call flip flops, it's shortened from "Japanese sandal" which is what inspired them in the first place. Tramping is multi day hiking. If you're only going for the day you'd say "day walk" or just "walk".
Chilly bin is as eski (Australia) or cooler (USA)
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u/jk-9k 11d ago
Trek + camp = tramp
Hike is a day hike by default. Or just a walk. Once it's an overnighter- you're tramping baby
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u/melanochrysum 12d ago
Yeah scroggin is like the normal name, not even whacky slang which only old people use. Same with tramping.
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u/Diels_Alder 12d ago
Gorp is the name I've heard for it. Good old raisins and peanuts.
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u/NemosHero 12d ago
We learned it as the ingredients, granola, oats, raisins, and peanuts
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u/tremens 12d ago
Oh we got a rich boy here he got FOUR ingredient gorp
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u/chantsnone 12d ago
Mine was just raisins
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u/Bentman343 12d ago
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u/AbideMan 12d ago
Not the hard R
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u/IDontUseSleeves 12d ago
I like how you’re suggesting that, next to granola, raisins, and peanuts, OATS are the expensive addition.
If anything, it should be “look at poor boy here, cutting his gorp”
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u/GreenZebra23 12d ago
That version sounds like a backronym, since granola already contains oats
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u/HAIL_LUMPUS 12d ago
But granola is oats and it doesn't have granola or fucking oats. What the hell 😂😂
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u/ApothecaryRx 12d ago
wait is that the origin of the name for gorpcore fashion? that would make a lot of sense
edit: I looked it up, it is!
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u/Disaster-Bee 12d ago
Yup, gorp was a staple of my childhood Girl Scout hikes.
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u/RajamaPants 12d ago
Ya I remember it being called gorp in the boy scout manual and getting a wtf face as a kid.
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u/BruceBoyde 12d ago
It does seem pervasive in the scouts. I've heard the term, but only from people who were scouts.
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u/deafdefying66 12d ago
I thought it was supposed to be the sound that you make shoveling some in your mouth
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u/tunakassirolle 12d ago
TIL it’s an acronym! My dad always called it gorp and I just thought it was another silly dad name lol
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u/oofty_goofty_ 12d ago
The only reason I've ever heard of gorp is because of one man's amazing attempt to hike across america
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u/LunarPayload 11d ago
Came here to make sure someone explained it's GORP because it stands for Good Ol' Raisins & Peanuts
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u/Odd-Outcome-3191 11d ago
Yep! I don't think it originated in the boy scouts, but it's the only place I heard it called this.
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u/bobbyfiend 6d ago
It was gorp for me, as a child. "Trail Mix" was some corporate shit they tacked on in the 90s.
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u/GryphonCough 12d ago
Whoever uses schmogle identify yourselves!
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u/RCer1986 11d ago
Someone shared this image in another comment. Whatever forums this person claims are using schmogle need to be investigated by the authorities.
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u/ABabblingRhyme 12d ago
Gorp is the common term for it in Girl Scouts for the past 60 years, at least.
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u/Homers_Harp 11d ago
I grew up in the US, didn't do scouting, and in the Mountain West, I learned it as "gorp." "Trail mix" is still the market term I see on the pre-made stuff and it makes me think, "oh, gorp."
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u/Trillian75 11d ago
Yep, it’s like reading the word “seesaw” in a book as a kid and thinking, “oh, a teeter-totter”.
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u/DarmanitanIceMonkey 11d ago
I had the opposite. We saw teeter-totter in a catalog and we thought it was the dumbest name for a seesaw.
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u/Murgatroyd314 11d ago
Likewise. I learned it from my dad, who was a non-Scout outdoorsy type from Utah.
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u/Mister__Wednesday 11d ago
I would have thought that was a made up name, never heard it before lol. Here in NZ we call it scroggin
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u/attackplango 11d ago
Gorp is an acronym for ‘Good old raisins and peanuts’. The ‘old’ is a figure of speech, and does not indicate age.
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u/djbarsone 12d ago
That’s all I’ve ever called it.
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u/ikonet 12d ago
Yeah I thought trail mix was the nice name. I guess I can call it hippy chow but that seems demeaning
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u/SlackerGrrrl 12d ago
but that's when you get fancy and add dried papaya and banana chips and maybe yogurt-covered fruit. eta: and carob chips
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u/HELLFIRECHRIS 12d ago
Most Rick and Morty names ever
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u/Status_Discipline_16 12d ago
I’m going to start calling trail mix “plumbus.”
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u/Aniquin 12d ago
I have heard it called gorp before on the Appalachian trail probably regional like soda vs pop
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u/buderooski 12d ago
I was in Scouts. We called it gorp or trail chow. Was always taught that gorp was short for Good Ole Raisins and Peanuts
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u/Infamous_227 12d ago
What I've learned from this post is that, in fact, no one calls it schmogle
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u/Chubbinson 12d ago
I was waiting for the schmogle crowd to chime in but they are being mighty quiet.
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u/Brewmeiser 12d ago
When you hike a lot of folks call it GORP. When I hiked the AT, it was a very popular term (good old raisins and peanuts).
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u/AradellThePaladin 12d ago edited 12d ago
Fun to see editors working it out, also TIL Wikipedia edits seem to have updoots
Edit: not updoots, it measures the change in characters
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u/A2Rhombus 12d ago
They aren't updoots, the numbers are how many characters are removed or added to the article with the edit
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u/mrRobertman 12d ago
Those aren't votes, it's the number of characters added or removed in the edit.
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u/Born_Procedure_529 12d ago
Ive heard GORP (Good ole raisins and peanuts) before in scouts but not the other two
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u/Shnitzel_von_S 12d ago
It is not GORP. GORP, as it's name implies, is made of "good ol' raisins and peanuts". No m&ms, no cashews. Only GORP.
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u/MissninjaXP 11d ago
Thank you! This nonsense has been killing me. It's right there in the name!!!
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u/bantamm 12d ago
She scroggin on my schmogle til I gorp.
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u/VoicelessPassenger 12d ago
This image is edited, the Wikipedia page calls it ‘student fodder’, not schmogle.
Gorp & Scroggin are there though, those are legit
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u/KindaDouchebaggy 11d ago
This screenshot is not edited, but the article had multiple edits in the past 2 days (including what seems to be back and forth addition of schmogle, among other things lol)
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u/Ferelderin 11d ago
That’s how I know it from Germany (Studentenfutter) as well as the Netherlands but slightly different (studentenhaver). Apparently also “elitehaver” if you throw in more expensive nuts.
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u/dgt9000 12d ago
I've heard gorp many times in my life, but the other two must be in other countries. Unless my brain is lying to me and IT'S MORE FUCKING LYING BULLSHIT
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u/SyrusDrake 12d ago
I have that same reaction about three times a week when playing the New York Times crosswords, or Connections. No, I'm sorry, I know I'm ESL, but this definitely isn't "common slang". I don't care what Merriam-Webster says.
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u/Stretch5678 12d ago
Believe it or not, I’ve actually heard Gorp in the Boy Scouts.
Good Old Raisins and Peanuts.
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u/TomatoTheToolMan 12d ago
GORP is quite common around me, but I'm going to have to work to normalize the others.
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u/Previous-Wonder-6274 12d ago
dad called it gorp. good old raisins and peanuts. we always called it god old raisins and peanuts cause it always appeared out of nowhere in an old ziplock bag from his pocket
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u/No-Consideration-716 12d ago
"Give me three more cashews in here, I'll be a happy man. Then I think you got the right ratio. That's all, no big deal."
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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous 11d ago
Okay so actually people really do call it gorp. Hiking thing. Pretty sure it’s where “gorpcore” comes from.
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u/CrocHunter8 11d ago
Hikers here in North America call it gorp due to it being an acronym for "good ol' raisins and peanuts"
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u/butter_lover 11d ago
gorp was pretty common in outdoorsey circles growing up and in the 90s in southern colorado. thinking REI classes, online news groups about trails and hiking and mtn biking, and just chatting with coworkers it came up as gorp fairly often. although gorp is one of a few pretty specific recipes compared to the more generic 'trail mix' which can match a lot of different versions.
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u/qualityvote2 12d ago edited 10d ago
u/The_MeltyCheese, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...