Freedom kiss me, baby?

Lingle's recent quip about state legislators being "childish" can certainly apply to national ones, given the story about "Freedom Fries".

[Even if use of the term "childish" is an insult to children everywhere.]

If I go into an establishment serving "Freedom toast" or "Freedom fries", I am walking right back out again.

Vive Monsieur le President Chirac!

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Hmmm...does this mean I have to get a freakin' Freedom Manicure tonight? If I tell my girls down at Fantastic Nails that, I'll end up with stars and stripes on my nails. This would certainly clash with my Freedom beret, and my Fredoom braid.

What's a girl to do?

I agree. Calling this childish is a slander against children. I blogged this ridiculous debacle under the title "Morons," and even then wonder if that's too positive a term.

French fries aren't French. They'd probably be happy to have the term banned. An NPR commentator had it right when he said, "If we really wanted to tick off the French, we should have attached their name to more American travesties of cuisine."

When a sports bar in Georgia does it, it's just simpleminded buffoonery. When elected representatives do it through government "action," it's an apalling waste and an awful new entry in our growing ledger of diplomatic snafus.

Stop the Presses! Ryan, did I read that correctly? You blogged this?

(snort)

"Eurotrash fries" doesn't trip off the tongue as easily.

I heard, and grinned at, that report on NPR. And I had an email from a French friend this morning which echoed it:

"We have heard of the Freedom fries in France. Their inventors should also
name one of these spongy things a French burger :-). Now that would make us
grumpy (sorry for the frivolous joke in these very serious times)."

Hey, Linkmeister, haven't you caught on to Ryan's "blog" yet? He's more diligent about it recently than he is with his main journal (although the recent entry there is a sure winner).

Albert, you get the Post Title of the Month award for this one.

I saw on the news this past week a bunch of people opening bottles of French wine and dumping it into the street. A wine merchant said the demand for French wine is way, way down, to where lots of people come into his store and say, "Anything but French."

I'm thinking, cool! Less demand means lower prices, which makes me a very happy sipper.

Meanwhile, why aren't we renaming German stuff? Why isn't there a call for Liberty Chocolate Cake, Patriot Dodge-Ball, and Allegiance Measles? Is anyone about to unleash, in place of Hamburgers and Frankforters, Pittsburgers and um, something clever?

That NPR report included a mention that this did happen during World War I when German things were re-named and a "frankfurter" became a "hot dog".

My French friend wrote this morning: "I've seen a few minutes with the Freedom fries on French TV last night. My God, what big ugly things. Fully satisfying their name was changed. They
look like potatoe missiles."

(She must not have seen those skinny things they sell at McD's and BK.)

Oh, this is sick:

WASHINGTON - In another swipe at the French, a Florida congresswoman has proposed that the government pay for families who might want to bring home from France the remains of Americans who fought and died in the world wars.

"I, along with many other Americans, do not feel that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today," Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said in introducing legislation providing financial help for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars.

Pardon my Freedom, but ...

(Nope. Not the same ring at all.)

From Weekend Update last night:

"In a related story, in France, American Cheese is now referred to as "Idiot Cheese." (Tina Fey)

I believe Liberty House(RIP) was originally named Hackfeld House but was renamed during WWI to avoid the German-sounding name. At least this is what my German prof told me at UH.

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