Calling All Foodies! How Did These Popular Snacks Get Their Name?

Named after the kitty cats of the streets of London.

Comes from the Kit-Cat Club, a party house in Berlin.

Made up of German-sounding nonsense words.

A conjunction of the German word for mountain and the Danish word for cream.

Doritos is Spanish for “breaking things.”

Doritos is Spanish for “little yellow things.”

Named after the University of Jamaica mascot: the Jamaica Gators.

Named after the alligators of Texas.

Named after the alligators of Florida.

After the Broadway show 'Junior Bliss'.

After the Broadway show 'Corbusier Miss'.

Named for the town where they were invented: Newton, New York.

Named for the town where they were invented: Newton, Germany.

Comes from oreology, the scientific study of mountains.

Comes from Oreortyx, mountain quail of western United States.

Comes from Oreokera, a genus of small air-breathing land snails.

Named after baseball legend, Babe Ruth

Named after Ruth's Chris Steak House.

The confluence of the two words 'mix' and 'win'.

Its name means “excellent” or “extraordinary” in Spanish.

Named after the Milky Way galaxy.

Named after the Milk & Honey Distillery

After a local town known as Bourn, with 'Ville' being the French word for river.

After the last name of the factory owner's grandfather.