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Squirrel Nut Zippers, the vanilla nut caramel variety, were developed in the mid-1920s to complement the chocolate variety. [1] Squirrel Nut Zippers contained peanuts and were sometimes passed out at performances by a band that shared the same name of Squirrel Nut Zippers. Squirrel Nut Zippers were small and tended to be soft and chewy ...
Squirrels, being primarily herbivores, eat a wide variety of plants, as well as nuts, seeds, conifer cones, fruits, fungi, and green vegetation. Some squirrels, however, also consume meat, especially when faced with hunger. [21] [32] Squirrels have been known to eat small birds, young snakes, and smaller rodents, as well as bird eggs and insects.
"Nut Zippers" is a southern term for a variety of old bootleg moonshine. The band's name comes from a newspaper story about an intoxicated man who climbed a tree and refused to come down even after police arrived. The headline was "Squirrel Nut Zipper." [3] [4] It is also the name of a caramel and peanut candy dating back to 1890. [5]
A squirrel day seems to consist primarily of burying and retrieving nuts. But upon closer observation, there's a little more to this.
Believe it or not, squirrels eat more than just nuts and seeds. They also eat a variety of fruits and veggies like apples, oranges, and carrots. They eat mushrooms, tree bark, and twigs.
In response to my last squirrel column, I was asked for some clarification about what they eat. More specifically, whether or not they are omnivores.
The biggest source of food for tree squirrels is tree nuts. Red squirrels store nuts in a single stash (a midden) that tends to dry out, so the seeds don't take root. Fox squirrels and gray squirrels bury nuts over a widespread area (scatterhoarding), and often forget them, resulting in new trees . [51] [52]
Eastern gray squirrels eat a range of foods, such as tree bark, tree buds, flowers, [54] berries, many types of seeds and acorns, walnuts, and other nuts, like hazelnuts (see picture) and some types of fungi found in the forests, including fly agaric mushrooms [55] and truffles. [40]