Talk:Shake 'n Bake

Page Needs Help
The page needs a lot of help. It doesn't describe what the food product is nor much of any relevant information except for its commercials. I'll try to add more information as I find time. --TruckOttr 03:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

AND...any article mentioning Shake and Bake commercials with invoking the sacred name "Toppie Smellie" is nearly criminal!!!

(note: Toppie Smellie did NOT sell "Shake 'n Bake", she sold "Oven-Fry"68.89.168.227 (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC))

OK seriously, I came here to find out what shake n bake is, and I still have no idea. Completely unhelpful. Somebody do something!


 * Done. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 03:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, I've tried to describe how you cook chicken using SnB (although it's been a long time). Do we need o do something to separate SnB, the food product, for all the SnB slang terms? tim 02:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I came on here looking for answers. As a kid, I loved Shake 'n Bake. The crap I buy now with the label of Shake 'n Bake is cracker crumbs and MSG. Whatever WAS in it is apparently not within the profit margin of Kraft......too bad it was a good product at one time. 207.34.71.239 01:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Tyler

This page Definitely needs to be cleaned up. I recommend that the slang and the food need to be separated. I'll put this to the help desk, but it needs to be done because this is one of the messiest articles I've seen on Wiki. WiiAlbanyGirl 20:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I came here looking for the ORIGINAL actress on the Shake 'N Bake commericals back in the 60s. She was not even mentioned. It appears, according to this page, that the Shake 'N Bake commercials didn't even appear until the 80s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.186.195.134 (talk) 03:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

This isn't about Shake and Bake, but about commercials. Where are the top selling Shake and Bake flavors; the number of units sold; the percentage of market share; the sizes sold; etc. Nothing more than a nostalgia look at a past brand that is currently being marketed. Makes no sense to me. 98.168.151.7 (talk) 22:52, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

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Ingredients
Need list of ingredients. Badagnani (talk) 17:01, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Citation Needed ref
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Aliens_James_Cameron_May_28_1985_first_draft.html

Daily Script copy of the Aliens script. Not sure if the movie ref is even notable, or if Daily Script is considered good enough, so I'll leave it to someone else to add. Granite26 (talk) 18:29, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately that isn't good enough, a secondary source would be needed connecting the two subjects. Primary sources, such as scripts, are not good enough for trivia mentions on wikipedia. Freikorp (talk) 00:39, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Unconfirmed usages
This was removed for a lack of references: And this was removed because an editor didn't think it was appropriate to include (I suppose) ChildofMidnight (talk) 07:50, 19 November 2009 (UTC) This was also removed: ChildofMidnight (talk) 07:51, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * "Shake 'n Bake" is a modern nickname for a 1950s era snow coach running on caterpillar tracks, that was once used to ferry sightseers to the Athabasca Glacier, in Alberta, Canada. The nickname is derived from the food brand and refers to the vehicle's lack of suspension and the fact that its passenger compartment tended to become uncomfortably hot.
 * In The Simpsons episode "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?," Homer says to Marge, "Your cooking only has two moves: shake and bake." Marge then replies, "But you love Shake & Bake; you used to put it in your coffee!"
 * In the science fiction film Aliens, the colony on planet LV-426 is referred to as a "Shake 'n Bake colony".


 * The part about Aliens wasn't removed; it was just moved to the main part of the pop culture section. –BMRR (talk) 19:59, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

On July 29, 2010, an IP user added this questionable item: I removed it, but the same user just put it back. No reference given, and when I tried a Google search for the phrase "summer of shake and bake", it only got two hits, neither of which even remotely confirmed the idea that 1974 and those two movies had earned such a nickname. I don't want to get into an edit war over this, I just want to flag what I think is material that's not worthy of inclusion. NameIsRon (talk) 18:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The summer of 1974 became known as the "Summer of Shake and Bake" due to two blockbusters: Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.

Huh?
This article states: "shaking so the particles adhere." Why would shaking make the coating particles adhere? Shaking is a means of evenly and quickly distributing the particles around the meat being coated - the meat's moist surface is why they adhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.164.201 (talk • contribs) 26 April 2011

Huh? II
This article states: "In the science fiction film Aliens, the colony on planet LV-426 is referred to as a "Shake 'n Bake colony", in reference to how long the colony took to build." Besides sounding like original research (what's the reference for this claim?), this doesn't really make sense: what does shake 'n bake have to do with how long the colony takes to build? In the movie, the connection appears to be with regards to the terraformaing process that the colonists are engaged in to make the planet habitable. The company brought in a lot of pre-packaged technology (atmospheric processing units, etc.) in an effort to turn the planet into, eventually, something that will be earth-like - just like "shake 'n bake" is a pre-packaged method for turning raw meat into a meal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.164.201 (talk • contribs) 26 April 2011


 * Agreed that this is original research, I am removing it. Freikorp (talk) 04:30, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Additionally, the term was used as a nickname for the world's biggest firestop test, which is shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shake-N-Bake_Fire_Test

The reason was that one of the penetrants was first subjected to motion (Shake...) and then the fire test (Bake...).
 * Also, with regards to Aliens, mentioned above, the Shake'N'Bake fire test included an item that can be used to fight Alien infestations. Whether aboard space stations or ships, the ductwork shown here as part of this fire test can be effectively used to trap and kill Aliens.--Achim Hering (talk) 17:10, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

"Shake and bake" in the movie Aliens isn't really an Aliens thing, per se, but rather the movie is just using an idiom/slang that was common in the 1970s and 1980s (particularly among US military) for something that was set up or made very quickly, usually without much regard for quality, qualifications, and/or safety, or something that is thrown together very quickly using prefabricated parts (imagine if Ikea had a town flat-pack to build a whole town in 2 days, that would be considered a shake and bake town). Aliens is full of slang that was common among the military in the 1970s (for example, the then popular phrase "the only thing I want to see are assholes and elbows," meaning he wants you moving so fast doing your job that all your other parts become a blur). — al-Shimoni  (talk) 13:22, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Pop Culture
Since the article is clearly about the food product, I moved the homophonous references to the disambiguation page for Shake and Bake. I then linked that page back to the pop culture section, which should in future be limited only to pop culture references to the food product. — Muckapedia (talk) 14 e mars 2013 12h40 (−4h)

Advertisements section
I think that one of the old ad slogans (sung by a Happy Homemaker to a simple melody) was: "Friday isn't Fry Day anymore!" It's a play on words: "FRIDAY" isn't "FRY DAY, the day of frying" anymore. I think the little girl might have added, "Friday isn't fry day; it's Shake 'n' Bake Day!" AdderUser (talk) 18:19, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't remember ads in the seventies with the "and I helped!" bit. I'm sure they did run, given the Simpsons reference. What I VERY clearly remember was the character Pete the Butcher. he was a balding black-haired fellow with a mustache who pushed Shake 'n Bake on all the moms who came into his store. I'd say the ads featuring him ran well into the 1980s. I don't know the actor's name, but my uncle used to run into him from time to time at a bar in Westchester County, NY. TimBRoy (talk) 00:59, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

No references in the ingredients slide
Please add some secondary reliable references in the ingredients slide Yozdek (talk) 14:53, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Plastic bags
The box still says the baggie is included. I thought it was a one time mistake. It’s not the bags are included anymore. 2600:1009:B00F:3081:3CFA:6253:6491:E64B (talk) 21:58, 2 May 2023 (UTC)