bothersome subjects.

[gfrancie]

As many of you people are well aware, there has been a bit of a strange occurence at Capitol Hill. Originally started in a restaurant in North Carolina, they renamed a common food (french fries) with the name of Freedom Fries. The congressional cafeteria has picked up the trend. Such an action recalls the days of World War One, when saurkraut was renamed liberty cabbage. Everyone began to drop anything with a german assocation. Even the English Royal Family, which was mostly made up of German blood (no one likes to talk about it but, Elizabeth II was the first truly English queen in nearly 200 years) changed its family name to Windsor.

First of all I highly doubt the french are offended that we don't want to associate their name with some of our favorite unhealthy foods. (fries, french toast..etc) I wonder if they are secretly enjoying the childish actions of a few supposedly adult members of the civil service.
I would love to ask, what will renaming deep-fried potatoes really do in regards to the strained relations between the United States and French Gov't?

"Jacque, did you 'ear, those yankees renamed the beloved fry after something else?"
"No! That is it, cave in, let's form an alliance to get those Iraqi's."

We could possibly go into war, quite shortly. In such a case, many innocent people (yes innocent people) are going to be killed.
And this is how time is being spent....renaming fried potatoes.

I would sincerely hope people are busy enough to be thinking about other things.
So many lives could be lost.
What a pity.

Comments

[starrynytes4me.livejournal.com]

*nods* *eats French Dip*

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

oooooo I love those.
Mmmmm french dip and lot's of au jus

Re:

[starrynytes4me.livejournal.com]

I have been known to drink the au jus. I LOVE those french dips. Hot Beef Dips are just not the same.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

we need to go for french dips.

[mrod.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. Ol' Queen Liz isn't all that English as such..

Sort of half Scottish, half Germano-European royal mongrel, really. :-)

Of course, all the current princes and the princess are half Greek too.

Then again, the old German, Austrian, Russian, Spanish etc. royal families were mostly relatives of Queen Victoria anyway, so they just keep it all in the family and only let the odd addition to the gene pool.

Doncha just love all this royal family business?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

she is a lot more english then say...queen victoria.

the royal family...a bunch of mutts if you think about it.
overly bred mutts with funny appearances.

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Freedom kissing, freedom-onion soup, freedom ticklers...yada yada yada.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I am all about freedom kissing. Let's promote it.

a contest

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

Best freedom kiss gets a Jo-Delite or a Gen-Soy Smoothie.

Re: a contest

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

well then, I suspect my boyfriend would win that easily.

[duhbigman.livejournal.com]

Next time I go to Quebec, I suppose I will have to practice speaking Freedom. Unfortunately, this may encourage them to try to separate again.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

*cracks up*
speaking freedom...with a funny accent.

[dalamar437.livejournal.com]

It was my understanding that French Frys didn't even come from france! They originated in Belgium!
I don't know if I spelled that right

[noogienubs.livejournal.com]

You spelled Belgium correctly, but it's "French Fries"...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yeah, the pomme frites that the french eat are filled with air. They are amazing to make and eat, but quite different from what we americans eat.

[popcultureicon.livejournal.com]

in europe, mostly in the islamic communities, there is a new cola sensation:
Mecca Cola. i kid you not.
"Cola for the fathful" or something like that.
made by the french.
%10 of the profits are donated to the palastineians....

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

oh that is just silly too. I remember reading about that.
People are acting like bratty children.

Re:

[popcultureicon.livejournal.com]

I think that is because most of the western civilization is bratty children.

[exjb-986723.livejournal.com]

actually, spending our time renaming fried potatoes is about the level we're at, politically. Republicans can rest easy that they've reclaimed the tuber from the ignominy Dan Quayle attached to it.

wasn't the civil service that made the Capitol Hill call, btw, was our elected officials. bureaucrats have more important things to deal with ...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I feel like giving up on the human race sometimes. *laughs*
sure a lot of people are going to die, but let's concentrate on potatoes.

[exjb-986723.livejournal.com]

could be worse -- we could all be blaming it on the Jews (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/politics/12APOL.html).

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

It is nice to know in these uneventful times that we can still blame the jews.

[snarkish.livejournal.com]

Friggin' ball-assed historical blindness. SHIT.
Y'know, it's not really so much this specific incident that pisses me off so much as the principle, or utter lack thereof, behind it. I mean, France won the Revolutionary War for us, damn it! This has layer upon layer of lunatic ingratitude heaped on it. Bah.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

how quickly we forget the nice things people do for us....quite pitiful.

[psychoone.livejournal.com]

Strangely, I don't see anyone calling for the US to give the statue of Liberty back... yet.

I was thinking about this though - aren't we basically paying French a compliment by substituting the name of their country with 'freedom'?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

that is a damn good point.
I think we wouldn't dream of giving it back (the warrenty ran out)