August 31 - National Trail Mix Day

The word gorp, an alternative name for trail mix, may stand for "good old raisins and peanuts",^[8] "granola, oats, raisins, and peanuts", or "gobs of raw protein". These are all probably backronyms or folk etymology. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily".

Trail mix is humorously referred to as studenterhavre ("student oats", in analogy of horse oats) in Denmark, studentenhaver (id.) in the Netherlands and Belgium and Studentenfutter ("student feed") in Germany. Apart from being a food for hikes, it is served as a cheap snack to accompany drinks.

In New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Iraq, trail mix is know as "scroggin."