Combos
It's from 1976, before you were born.
- Maker
- Mars (Mars Wrigley)
- Type
- Filled pretzel/cracker snack
- Debuted
- 1976
- Note
- "Combos really cheese your hunger away"
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About
As of 2026, it's 50 years old.
Combos answered a question truckers everywhere were asking: what if a pretzel, but you didn't have to choose between the pretzel and the cheese? The tube-shaped shell stuffed with cheese or pizza filling is a two-in-one snack engineered for the gas-station register and the long highway.
Since 1976 it has promised, via jingle, to 'cheese your hunger away,' a phrase that means nothing and everything at once.
Crunchy outside, suspiciously creamy inside, and proudly road-trip-coded, Combos are the snack that knows exactly where it lives.
Combos through the years
Introduced
Tube-shaped pretzels or crackers filled with savory cheese.
A road-trip staple
"Combos really cheese your hunger away" targets travelers.
