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Freedom Fries and Toast

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French Fries Get New Name in Congress
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By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - House cafeterias will be serving fries with a side order of patriotism Tuesday with a decision by GOP lawmakers to replace the "French" cuisine with "freedom fries."

"This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France," said Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, chairman of the House Administration Committee.


Ney, whose panel oversees House operations, ordered the House Administrative officer to change the menus in House office building cafeterias to read "freedom fries" and "freedom toast."
 
Today my cafeteria at work was selling "European Onion Soup."
 
headscratcher4 said:
Based on German opposition to Bush, I wonder if they'll change the name of Hambergers?
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I believe they did that during WWI

Liberty steaks, I think they called them.
 
If they cut those freedom fries out of their diets then the house may get a little less fat. Cut out the potatoes and the corn guys, dump the starch.
 
corplinx said:
If they cut those freedom fries out of their diets then the house may get a little less fat. Cut out the potatoes and the corn guys, dump the starch.
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If they get stressed then they could take freedom leave. An afternoon with the pretty intern could start with a freedom kiss and if course if they get lucky a freedom letter could come in handy. (sorry the last term may too archaic!)
 
Tmy said:
Des Moines Iowa has been renamed Hicksburg.
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Don't you think keeping the name and continuing to pronounce it incorrectly is a more severe punishment?

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I'l bet the haute cuisine-loving French are thrilled that we finally renamed French Fries, which were never French anyway.
 
During the World Wars a lot of things with German names or with the word "German" in the name were renamed. Didn't they call German Shepherds Alsatians for a while? I think we are starting to see this with all things French now. Did we ever do this with any country we were NOT at war with before? I don't even recall things with Russian names changing during the Cold War. But then again I wasn't born when the Cold War started and I grew up near St. Petersburg, Florida.
 
I guess now they'll be trying to "Freedom Kiss" their interns instead of French kissing them? :D
 
Freedom fries? Qu'après? Before we are all required to submit rectal scans as the biometric requirement for a new national ID, I'd suggest that GOP lawmakers actually read how French fries got the name.

Belgians typically fried the fish they caught in the Meuse River. But - so the story goes - severe ice one winter made fishing impossible, so French-speaking Belgians cut potatoes into the shape of small fish and fried them instead.

A Belgian entrepreneur named - what else? - Frits allegedly opened the first fried-potato stand (friterie) in Brussels, creating a tasty snack and cultural icon in one fell swoop. Today, Belgium is home to more than 7,000 friteries.

So why the French fry and not the Belgian fry? Could it be because we already have Belgian endive and Brussels sprouts? Actually, several explanations have emerged:

1. Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and US ambassador to France, reportedly introduced a dish of "potatoes, fried in the French manner" at a dinner party at his Virginia home, Monticello. His guests loved them.

2. The term "Frenching" also refers cutting potatoes into narrow strips.

3. American soldiers fighting in World War I discovered friteries in Belgium, but since the language used was French, the Americans mistakenly named the treat French fries.
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Likewise,French toast

First made at a roadside tavern not far from the city of Albany in 1724, there are few dishes more truly American than the breakfast favorite known as "French toast". So American is the dish that very few can understand why it is not called "American toast", "Albany Toast" or even "New York State toast".

The confusion comes about because the owner of the tavern at which the dish was invented had a very poor knowledge of grammar. When Joseph French decided to name the dish after himself he should have written his invention as "French's toast" (that is to say, the toast of French). Because he did not know how to use the possessive apostrophe, however, the dish appeared on his menu simply as "French toast". In short, the dish has nothing whatever to do with French culinary history but in the two hundred and seventy years that have intervened, no one has taken the time to correct the grammatical error.
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According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the word Bush has its origins, partly, in Old French: bois or wood (of Germanic origin).

Thinking of suitably absurd substitutions, how about merde?
 
Frank,

Sounds like French('s) Toast got its name the same way German('s) chocolate cake did. So we can continue eating them. ;)
 
Is it me or is america a heartbeat away from 'victory gin' and 'victory cigarettes'?

In order to control the masses, you must control their minds. To control their minds, you must control their language.

I get a sick feeling in my guts when I hear the term 'freedom fries' I really do.
 
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