Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:16:24 -0600

From: "Donald M. Lance" engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Re: "shake and bake" (=explosives)



Paul Dickson's _War Slang_ presents "shake and bake" as a verb: "to

employ a mixture of weapons in an attack." The expression arose during the

Gulf War.



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I assume that "shake and bake" refers to bombs that destroy via their

explosive force ("shake") and to incendiary bombs ("bake"). Incendiary

bombs were use in World War 2. Were they also used in the Gulf War?

--Gerald Cohen



My uninformed, off-the-top-of-my-head assumption would be that it refers to

buying separate ingredients (fertilizer, diesel fuel) and mixing them up

and then inserting detonators. The run like hell.



DMLance