Zagnut
Zagnut is a candy bar found in the United States. It was launched in 1930 by the D. L. Clark Company and acquired by The Hershey Company in 1996. Its main ingredients are peanut butter and toasted coconut, and it weighs 1.75 ounces (50 g).
Unlike many other candy bars, it contains no chocolate, though it does contain a small amount of cocoa. Candy stores rarely stock Zagnut, since it has only a niche market.
Appearances in pop culture
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- In the movie Beetlejuice, the title character (Michael Keaton) tempts a housefly with a Zagnut. He lures the fly to his lair and then pulls it into the ground.
- Zagnut bars appear in the movie Seems Like Old Times. Zagnuts also appear in the movie Meatballs II, in Jason Hervey's suitcase.
- Snake uses a Zagnut to rob the Kwik-E-Mart in a Simpsons comic book.
- In the TV show Spin City, Stuart tries to get a Zagnut out of a vending machine, but because a fuse is out due to a snow storm; he is unable to. He then tries to go to the basement of City Hall to fix the fuse but gets locked in the boilier room.
- In the film The Great Outdoors, Chet Ripley (John Candy) takes his youngest son, Bennie (Ian Giatti), along with his two nieces, Cara Craig & Mara Craig (Rebecca & Hilary Gordon), to the bear dump site located on Lake Potowotominimac. In an attempt to lure the bears closer to the family vehicle, to make the show more exciting, Chet tosses the bears a Zagnut bar & later on, places one on the hood of his Jeep. This method of luring does in fact work, as the bear climbs up on the vehicle's hood & eats the Zagnut bar. After finishing the bar, the bear remains on the hood of the vehicle, followed by another bear climbing up onto the Jeep's roof. Chet is forced to leave the bear dump site & drive back to his family's cabin, while the bears remained on the vehicle.
- In the film 48 Hrs., Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) angrily purchases a Zagnut bar from the precinct candy machine for Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), who wants a fine dinner in a nice restaurant. Says Cates: "Here's your goddamn dinner!"
- A Zagnut bar appears several times in the Homestar Runner universe (for example, in the Halloween special "3 Times Halloween Funjob").
- In the 1970s–80s Canadian comedy series SCTV, Zagnut bars are revealed to be the favourite candy bar of Ed Grimley (Martin Short). In the episode "Spy Wrap", Ed is bribed into performing a dance by Fred Winston (Fred Willard) by the promise of a Zagnut.
- "Zagnut" is a rock song by Mike Cecelski.
- Zagnuts are repeatedly referenced in the Halloween episode of the television series Downtown.
- In the episode "My Name is Inmate 28301-016 (Part 1)" of the sitcom My Name Is Earl, a prisoner mentions the difficulty of finding Zagnut bars in the 21st century to Earl, and wonders if they are still in production.
- In the movie Hancock, Hancock uses a zagnut bar to stop a liquor store robbery by throwing it at the criminal, which sends him through a window.
- In the television series Roswell season 2 episode 4, "Summer of '47", characters on the way to investigate a UFO crash stop to purchase and eat a Zagnut.
See also
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