Fried politics: Restaurant serves 'freedom fries'
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Posted: 10:49 AM EST (1549 GMT)

BEAUFORT, North Carolina (AP) -- You can get fries with your burger at a restaurant here, but just don't ask for french fries.

Neal Rowland, the owner of Cubbie's, now only sells his fried potato strips as "freedom fries" -- a decision that comes as Americans watch French officials back away from support for possible war in Iraq.

"Because of Cubbie's support for our troops, we no longer serve french fries. We now serve freedom fries," says a sign in the restaurant's window.

Rowland said his intent is not to slight the French people, but to take a patriotic stance to show his support for the United States and the actions of President Bush.

"It's our way of showing our patriotic pride," he said, noting that his business has a lot of local military troops as customers.

Rowland said the switch from french fries to freedom fries came to mind after a conversation about World War I when anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods like sauerkraut and hamburger to liberty cabbage and liberty steak.
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As the above news story cites, during WW I, foods were re-named to exorcise their german origins. In fact, daschunds were kicked and mistreated by people because they were german dogs. Also after the war anti-german feelings were strong in England so the english people changed the german shepherd name to Alsation.

Now that France has raised the ire of many in this country for their intransigence about giving Turkey defensive weapons and their opposition of the US and eastern european countries support for going to war against Iraq, should we do the "patriotic" act of rejecting all things French, or should we just ignore those cheese eating surrender monkeys?

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I think its retarded.

People complain about anti-americanism overseas, yet can't get enough of freedom fries, "French whine", "Axis of Weasels", etc.

Its like we are a nation trapped in third grade.

I did see a joke sent in to a cable TV channel by some Englishman though, "Did you know French tanks have six gears? Five reverse and one forward in case they are attacked from behind." That was pretty funny.

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I vote we start calling turkeys "greedies"

On thanksgiving we will now have "thanksgiving greedies" and gravy!

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i read something about people boycotting frech wine and cheese now, as well. hrm.

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And America can keep having all-American things like apple pie.

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I'll take the #6 Liberty steak combo (hold the mayo) to go.
Would you like to American size that?

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From http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/022503.asp

FEDERAL FRANCE-BASHING STANDARDS & GUIDELINES

1. Effective immediately, Americans are directed to discontinue use of the word "French." For example, henceforth, that overly-sweet, bloody liquid slathered on yellowed iceberg lettuce at Shoney's shall be "Prancing Snail Swallower Dressing;" those greasy sticks of carbohydrates and sodium kept warm for hours under heat lamps at McDonald's shall be "Beret Wearing Pansy Fries" (and shall no longer be available in any size other than "embarrassingly small"); and restaurants throughout the land will begin serving "Unbathed Asshole Onion Soup."

2. Americans shall promptly initiate a boycott of the "French Kiss" – replacing it with PATRIOTIC expressions of affection such as the "Texas Uvula Wallop" and the "Dixieland Stinky Finger."

3. Upon sipping from any glass or bottle of inferior French wine in a restaurant, all citizens are hereby directed to spit it onto the floor before braying that the imported beverage was either "too flinty" or "indistinguishable from a rancid slick of year-old poodle menses" before loudly ordering a refreshing 48 oz. Gallo Peach Liebfraumilch slushy as a replacement.

4. All American colleges and universities must immediately dispense with the folly of teaching the pathetic "Soft Philosophies" of Voltaire, Sartre, and Descartes - and begin aggressively indoctrinating our starry-eyed youth to the profound, righteous, and less tediously cerebral works of Hannity, Rumsfeld, Noonan, and The Rock.

5. Moving forward, U.S. journalists and historians alike are to incinerate any liberal textbooks which incorrectly assert that the French saved our ragtag, shoeless asses at Yorktown during America's noble fight for independence from those charmingly irascible and currently endearing limeys (a struggle now rendered ironically moot by Britain's decision to fork over what little sovereignty they didn't give to the European Socialist Union to our State Department).

6. Should they find their personal space violated by an actual French person, whether in New York, Topeka or Paris, Americans should demonstrate their unswerving love of country by informing the Franko Sapiens in question about a recent innovation called "the shower" and then, before the rebuked Frog can make some sour, smelly retort in that bitchy French way of theirs, douse them with a mixture of J-Lo perfume and pepper spray, taking care not to get the lethal mixture on any of the fourteen colors you happen to be wearing. Then, as they're writhing in agony - screaming that incomprehensible jibberish of theirs - tell them that their supposed military genius and 19th century Saddam Hussein progenitor Napoleon could only overcome his crippling impotence (the bane of ALL Frenchmen) by satiating a deviant sexual appetite for basting his prostitute wife Josephine in superior American coffee!

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i've seen a lot of people smashing tie-racks.

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my lord that's retarded...

Anyone for some Sweet Potato Fries?

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BEAUFORT, North Carolina

BEAUFORT,that sounds french to me.Just cut the whole town out of the ground an drop it on Iraq.

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What about Beaufort, South Carolina?

(For some reason I can't figure out, one's pronounced "bow-fort" and the other "bue-fort", and I can't remember which is which...)

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That's French for "pretty fort"

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