Flake

Flake or Flakes may refer to:

In food preparation:

• Fish flake, a platform for drying cod
• Flake (fish), an Australian term for edible flesh of one of several species of shark
• Flake (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury
• An individual popped kernel of corn is known as a "flake"

In science and technology:

• Nanoflake, a novel shape of semiconductor nanostructure
• Lithic flake, a fragment of stone found in archaeology
• Snowflake, a particle of snow
• Flake tobacco, used in a smoking pipe
• Flakes of dandruff
• Flake, a slang term for cocaine
• Flake (KDE), a software library for KDE

People:

• Floyd H. Flake (born 1945), A.M.E. minister, university administrator, former U.S. representative
• Jeff Flake, American politician
• Christian "Flake" Lorenz, German musician and member of the band Rammstein

In music:

• Flake, the original name of the band Flake Music, the predecessor of The Shins
• Flake (Australian band), a group formed in 1969, considered part of the third wave of Australian rock
• Flake (Seattle band), an American power pop trio from Seattle, formed in 1992
• "Flake" (song), a song from the 2001 album Brushfire Fairytales by Jack Johnson
• "Flakes", a song from the 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
• "Flake", an early song from the "Untitled 1995 Demo Tape" by System of a Down

In film and literature:

• Flakes (film), a 2007 film with Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel
• Flakes (manga), a manga anthology by Naoki Yamamoto
• Flake, a fictional rat in The Deptford Mouselets series of novels by Robin Jarvis

In culture

• Slang for a person who socializes on a glib, superficial level who often feigns an interest in a subject in an attempt to seek social approval.