Lawmaker wants "French" back in fries "They were noncooperative and arrogant then," before the war (said Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio), "and they are again noncooperative and arrogant," Ney said. "I haven't seen a huge change." Is he talking about the French or the Bush Administration? Ney said that was originally a gesture toward the French "has become an international food fight. It means something to a lot of people." Right. It means a lot to someone like you with a six-figure salary who cares more about getting re-elected than our troops dying for a lie.
The fact that this is still an issue continues to make me bristle. Why are they wasting our time and taxpayer dollars on this? Call them what you want, but shouldn't the cafeteria manager decide that? Does this really require an act of Congress? Unbelievable....
WTF? Naming french fries "freedom fries" in Congress was supporting our troops? How out of touch are these assholes? Hey, jerkwad - if you want to support the troups, send a fucking CARE package, or if you have to do it legislatively, increase VA Hospital funding. Asshat.
I'm hip. The soldiers who are currently recovering in the hospital after being injuried in the Iraqi theater are being charged for their meals. No lie.
So how are they liking the freedom fries? The freedom fries thingy is still greatly entertaining. No really, it helps to value American politicians for their true worth. (Not that ours are any better, mind you)
From that notoriously liberal publication, Stars & Stripes http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=16858&archive=true
As if the French would care what we call our own greasy innovation anyway. I can't believe how seriously this is being taken.
This Freedom Fries thing has been pretty insane from the beginning, but I don't see why we began calling them "French fries" anyway. The French & other francophones call them "pommes frites", literally "fried potatoes." And we know the Brits call them chips... I think most everybody here just calls them "fries" anyway, so why the hell did some idiot in Congress raise a big stink about the French/freedom thing?
So they may be "freedom" fries, but they sure aren't FREE fries. But seriously, when are we going to take on the scourge of French Toast, French cuffs and French apple pie!! Maybe that's Dutch apple pie but they haven't been part of the "Coalition of the Willing" either. These people are our elected 'leaders'. Our 'statesmen'. Remember when Sports Illustrated used to do "This week's sign that the Apocolypse is Upon Us."? This would have to qqualify.
Actually, I just munched away at a nice 'lil portion of Belgian Fries and Mussels. Yes, I know the most cliché Belgian dish, but I only eat it like 4-5 times a year. I think tourists and foreigners eat it more then us Belgians do.
This make for good poltics, I'm sure there are many people in this guys district who think it was a great idea.
Oddly enough, so do the Germans. I guess gebraten Kartoffeln (or whatever) would be more trouble than it's worth.
I heard that the French has renamed 'American cheese' to 'Imperial cheece'. Not sure if that's true. But that's quite a match with 'freedom fries'.
They were calling it something like, stupid/ignorant cheese. It is not like our American cheese ever got a fair chance in France anyway.
Hmm..sounds good! I'd like some Imperial cheese on my capitalist lapdog with a a side of Wuss Fries please.
American cheese? In France?? What would its purpose be? Punishment? Torture? A S&M "thing" I'm not aware of?
Beat me to it. The idea of American cheese in France is funnier than the notion of the great and good of American politics actually putting their names to this infantile and embarrassing episode in your nation's history.
Any way you name them, freedom fries are garbage full of cholesterol and very bad for our health, and we'd be better off without them. And idiot cheese is so devoid of taste that you can lose it under the sofa and eat it three years later without noticing anything different. (It will still taste like plastic.) Now, can I still be a good patriot even if I drink French Champagne? Please?
Traitor? Die? Ok then. Last request: A bottle of Perrier-Jouet 'Fleur de Champagne, (a Magnum, of course), and a box of Cohiba Robustos.