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Freedom Fries

After a US restaurant renamed its fried potato dish "Freedom Fries", everybody from whores to Congressmen has been removing the word "French" from their product names. (via bOING bOING)

There are 16 comments on "Freedom Fries":

Posted by: Simstim http:// Thu Mar 13 15:01:46 2003

I bet all this renaming is being done by the very same people who obsessively hated political correctness.

Posted by: Zed http://www.mememachinego.com/ Thu Mar 13 16:25:33 2003

I am so embarrassed.

Posted by: mrsmalkav http:// Thu Mar 13 21:10:24 2003

*you're* embarassed? i'm currently living in the state where that stupid restauraunt first came up with the idea. boy, am i proud.

though it's quite disturbing that it caught on so effectively.

Posted by: Paul http:// Thu Mar 13 22:57:04 2003

Just to be difficult, I'm going to start selling Bondage Fries. I don't even have a restaurant. What the hey. Fight stupidity with stupidity!

Posted by: Graham http://grudnuk.com Fri Mar 14 04:27:36 2003

The weirdest part is that French toast is actually named after some Yank called French.

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Fri Mar 14 05:20:58 2003

That and the way that "freedom" and "liberty" have been transformed into abstract, metaphysical qualities of the great American republic, Aristotelian essences as it were, rather than real phenomena. So when Ashcroft succeeds in turning America into the new USSR (and the Domestic Security Enhancement Act looks like doing just that), people will still say "no, that sort of thing could never happen in America because we believe in liberty", even while dissidents are picked off by database searches, stripped of their citizenship and shipped off to Guantanamo or somewhere.

Posted by: mark http://cyberfuddle.com/infinitebabble/ Fri Mar 14 09:08:42 2003

Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité, and the Tree of Liberty in the shadow of the Guillotine.

And I'm not talking about France here.

Posted by: Simstim http:// Fri Mar 14 11:29:30 2003

Perhaps the French should ask for the Statue of Liberty back...

Posted by: Rico http:// Fri Mar 14 18:39:03 2003

My girlfriend suggested: Freedom Kiss, Freedom Tickler, and Freedom Maid Outfit. It's a really sad time to be from the States.

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Sat Mar 15 03:13:33 2003

The Freedom Maid Outfit would have to look like a French maid's outfit, only with gratuitous amounts of red, white and blue. As time progresses, an alternate urban legend grows around it having been the uniform of a cell of female revolutionaries in 1776 or something.

Posted by: Stephen Sun Mar 16 07:31:31 2003

You mean like this?

http://store6.yimg.com/I/amazingtoys_1732_5152321

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Sun Mar 16 07:46:35 2003

Possibly, only with more lace and the like.

Posted by: Bruce http:// Sun Mar 16 17:38:25 2003

"...everybody from whores to Congressmen" Hmm, that's not a very broad spectrum is it?

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Mon Mar 17 02:40:45 2003

No, but the phrasing was irresistible.

Posted by: amy http:// Wed Nov 3 06:00:53 2004

Perhaps all of you that are so embarassed of our country care to move to France? I'm sure they've always like us so much, you'll feel right at home.

Posted by: Ben-Gurion Jacarutu http:// Thu Nov 4 15:32:38 2004

Which country is 'our country'?