Snack Snack A snack is a small service of food and generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home. Traditionally, snacks are prepared from ingredients commonly available in the home without a great deal of preparation. Often biscuits, chocolate, cold cuts, fruits, leftovers, nuts, popcorn, sandwiches, and sweets are used as snacks. The Dagwood sandwich was originally the humorous result of a cartoon character's desire for large snacks. With the spread of convenience stores, packaged snack foods became a significant
Dagwood Bumstead in comic books, Big Little Books, Whitman novels for children, and other print materials, as well as radio, film, and television. Arthur Lake played Dagwood in the "Blondie" film series (1938–50) and the short-lived 1957 TV series "Blondie", while Will Hutchins played him in a revival series (1968–69). He makes several cameo appearances in "Garfield Gets Real", alongside Grimmy from "Mother Goose and Grimm". Dagwood and his wife also made a cameo appearance in a "Garfield" strip originally published April 1, 1997. On a fourth wall break, Garfield refers to this as "moving to a different comic strip". Dagwood made