trail mix

English

Noun

trail mix (countable and uncountable, plural trail mixes)

1. A blend of foods for snacking on the go, as during hikes, usually consisting of some combination of dried fruit, nuts, seeds, granola, and sometimes small candies, cereal, etc.
   • 2000, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, Catherine Whitney, Cook Right 4 Your Type, Penguin, →ISBN:

     ORIGINALLY a highcalorie energy sustainer for extended hiking, trail mix started becoming very popular in the late 1960s. Affectionately nicknamed Gorp, the basic recipe has been modified to suit the different blood types.

Synonyms

• gorp
• scroggin (UK, NZ)

Translations

a blend of foods for snacking on the go

• Catalan: ganyips (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: studentenhaver m, elitehaver m
• Finnish: evässekoitus
• German: Studentenfutter (de) n
• Hungarian: diákcsemege (hu)
• Polish: mieszanka studencka f
• Swedish: jägarsnus

Further reading

• trail mix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia