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appears that I've made it through the 24 years of my life without having encountered the word gorp. You can imagine my
surprise when, on a recent car trip, my girlfriend referred to the bag of peanuts, raisins and chocolate chips that I
packed, asking "Where's the gorp?" Gorp came up in conversation again the other day, so I decided to do a
little research. The origins of the word are cloudy at best. According to a Wikipedia entry, gorp may be a "backronym," an acronym created to match
the letters of a word that already exists, standing for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts or Granola Oats Raisins and
Peanuts. I'm skeptical of the latter because granola generally contains oats anyway, so that would be redundant.
Apparently gorp is also known as scroggin in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Iraq. Supposedly, this may also be an
acronym.[Photo: Wikipedia]
