Talk:Tastee-Freez

"Suck" on chili dogs? Are they toothless old people?

Add the song "Fool for You" by The Parasites for songs that name-drop the Tastee Freez. The lyric reads, "I saw you walk into the Tastee Freez, and I knew you were the one for me." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkouremetis (talk • contribs) 17:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

In popular culture

Yes, every mention of anything in a song immortalizes it. Obviously. Earthquakes, birds, snakes, airplanes, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs, Leonard Bernstein... all of them were immortalized by R.E.M. Meanwhile, God was immortalized by Tori Amos, Joan Osbourn and, oh, perhaps 50,000 other song writers.

Unfortunately, all of these are simply indiscriminate listings of appearances. They do not explain the subject's impact on popular culture. Comments? - SummerPhD (talk) 02:13, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Tastee-Freez, while still in existence in sparse parts of the continent, has moved from being a mainstream restaurant chain to one of nostalgia. In the "Jack and Diane" example, the "chili dog" line would have made no impact whatsoever if they had been sitting outside McDonald's. The decision to use "Tastee-Freez" was made to evoke memories of small-town Americana from years gone by.

When my daughter was eight, she heard the song and asked me "What's a Tastee-Freez?" It gave me an opportunity to tell her about something cool from when I was a kid. Conversely, she never asked me who "Leonard Bernstein" is when "End of the World as We Know it" came on. The fact that this particular song remained at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1982 and is still played daily somewhere on the radio adds to the credibility of it's impact--as well as it's relevance to this subject.

I'm not sure a reasonable person could say the same thing for the "Cheech and Chong" or "Outsiders" references. While noteworthy, their appearances are less likely over time and require deliberate effort for someone to see them. They won't appear on the drive home from work, or during a backyard barbecue with the radio on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.4.115.229 (talk) 13:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

What your eight year old found notable is not necessarily encyclopedic. My niece was fascinated by the possibility of swimming in a water tower. I see no mention of the concept at Water tower.

The current content does not "explain the subject's impact on popular culture rather than simply listing appearances". Instead, it is an "indiscriminate collection of trivia or cruft" consisting of "trivial entries, especially if they are in list format".

How is it "indiscriminate"? There are two answers to how the list items were selected. It might be an exhaustive list of every mention of Tastee-Freez ever in a notable book, song, movie, play, painting, sculpture, knock-knock joke, sculpture, TV show, speech, newspaper article... This is highly unlikely and would be completely pointless and inappropriate. The second possibility is that the items were occurrences that one or more editors happened to think of. Demographically, are you, 184.4.115.229, more likely to run across the John Cougar song or, say, the proclamation of "Billy Bob Thornton Day" or the 1967 Peter Cook/Dudley Moore film Bedazzled? What makes one of these worthy of inclusion and the others not? Your daughter's question?

Take a look at Richard Nixon. Does it mention movies (The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Dick, Nixon, Secret Honor, etc.), songs ("Ohio", "Sweet Home Alabama"), albums (Nixon), musicians (Mojo Nixon), books ("Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990), reanimated disembodied heads (Richard Nixon's head), operas (Nixon in China)?

On the other side of the coin, we have Gerald Ford, which discusses Chevy Chase's impression of the president on Saturday Night Live. Why does this make sense? Because it demonstrates his impact on popular culture, according to an interview with Ford in the New York Times. Not "Chevy Chase did an impression of Ford several times on SNL, depicting him as a clumsy buffoon.<ref>The SNL episode.</ref>" Instead it's a sourced discussion of an impact on popular culture. President partially attributes re-election failure to late night skit is considerable impact. Song lyric prompts question from eight year old girl is not. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:40, September 15, 2014 (UTC)

Wienerschnitzel

Wienerschnitzel sells Tastee Freez.

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