Herr Uhl wrote...
Sarah1281 wrote...
Herr Uhl wrote...
Because the word Freedom combined with food is simply ridiculous.
Oh, I know...and everyone promptly forgot about it after a month or so until three years later they were like 'we're changing it back' and everyone was like 'you mean you haven't already'? Honestly, it's like Congress is the Assembly with more pointless motions and less hacking people to death...
Why was it changed in the first place? And why was the congress involved?
It makes Eskil Erlandsson seem appropriate, and he started talking about if fondling the teats of [female canines] or smearing something on your sex to make a dog lick it was beastiality.
From wikipedia...
On March 11, 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-North Carolina) declared that all references to French fries and French toast on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run by the House of Representatives would be removed. House cafeterias were ordered to rename French fries to "freedom fries". This action was carried out without a congressional vote, under the authority of Ney's position as Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which oversees restaurant operations for the chamber. The simultaneous renaming of French toast to "freedom toast" attracted less attention.[1]
Cubbie's: Now Serving Freedom Fries
A snack bar sign advertising "American" fries at Knott's Berry Farm. The sign formerly read "French".
According to a statement released by Ney, this move was intended to express displeasure with France's "continued refusal to stand with their U.S. allies" (see Iraq disarmament crisis). The statement further read: "This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure many on Capitol Hill have with our so-called ally, France."[1][2]
The Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. made no comment beyond pointing out that French fries come from Belgium. "We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes," said Nathalie Loisau, an embassy spokeswoman. Critics also asserted that "French fries" were called such because they are "frenched", or thinly sliced,[3] although this might be a false etymology; the first American reference to French fries was made by Thomas Jefferson, who referred to them as "potatoes, fried in the French Manner".[4]
Congressmen Ney and Jones were not the first to rename French fries "freedom fries"; a number of private restaurants across the country began the renaming movement. Neal Rowland, owner of the privately owned fast-food restaurant Cubbie's in Beaufort, North Carolina began the movement by selling his fried potato strips under the name "freedom fries". Rowland claimed that his intent was not to slight the French people, but rather to be "patriotic and supportive of President George W. Bush" after hearing the news of the French opposition on 19 February 2003. He explained that the name change came to mind after a conversation with a history teacher about World War I, during which anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods.[5] Sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage", dachshunds renamed "liberty pups", and hamburgers renamed "liberty steaks" or "Salisbury steaks" (a name that remains in use.)[6] Many of Rowland's customers are local military troops. In March 2007, Rowland obtained a U.S. trademark registration for the mark "freedom fries".[7] The name change is still used by some restaurants, such as Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia[8] and the chain restaurant Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill.
Reckitt Benckiser, makers of French's mustard, was sufficiently concerned to clarify that their brand name was derived from a family name, and to issue a press release affirming its patriotism.
Chances are that no one would have noticed if it were just the local restaurants.
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