Zu Zu Ginger Snaps
Product type | Cookie |
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Owner | Mondelez International |
Country | U.S. |
Introduced | 1901 |
Previous owners | Nabisco |
Website | snackworks.com/gingersnaps |
Ginger Snaps (formerly, Zu Zu Ginger Snaps) is a brand of round drop cookies originally launched in 1901 by the National Biscuit Company (NBC) –later changed to Nabisco– and produced until the early 1980s. The snaps are "a spicy combination of ginger and sugar-cane molasses"[1] and came in a distinctive yellow box with reddish type.
In popular culture[]
The mascot was the "Zu Zu Clown".[2] The Clown became central to an advertising campaign which included ads, signs, free clown costumes for children and two sizes of clown dolls.[3]
In the movie It´s A Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, one of George Bailey's daughters is named Zu Zu after these cookies. Near the end of the film, when her dad rushes up the stairs and Zuzu greets him, he replies "Zuzu, my little ginger snap!".[4]
In Out of the Cracker Barrel by William Cahn (a book commissioned by the National Biscuit Company), the name of the product is said to have possibly originated from a character in the play Forbidden Fruit by Dion Boucicault. Adolphus Green, NBC's first chairman, supposedly saw the play and adapted the name of the character "Zulu".
References[]
- ^ Cahn, William (1969). Out of the Cracker Barrel: From Animal Crackers to ZuZu's. Simon and Schuster. p. 104. ISBN 0-671-20360-6.
- ^ "That Clown, Those Eyes". Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Zu Zu Clown Dolls". Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ ZUZU SHARES STORY BEHIND HER NAME AND COOKIE RECIPE, The Telegraph, Nov 25, 2018
External links[]
- Products introduced in 1901
- Nabisco brands
- Mondelez International brands