Zu Zu Ginger Snaps

Zu Zu Ginger Snaps were round drop cookies produced beginning in 1901 by National Biscuit Company (NBC) – later changed to Nabisco – until the early 1980s. The snaps were "a spicy combination of ginger and sugar-cane molasses"[1] and came in a distinctive yellow box with reddish type.

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!"

Origin of Name

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."

Notes
  1. Cahn, William (1969). Out of the Cracker Barrel: From Animal Crackers to ZuZu's. Simon and Schuster. p. 104. ISBN 0-671-20360-6.
  2. "That Clown, Those Eyes". Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. "Zu Zu Clown Dolls". Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
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