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Do you still call them freedom fries?

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Hell no. What a dumb attempt at drumming up patriotism.

If you want us to be proud of our country, do something that will make us proud of our country. Silly things like renaming food items are distasteful and tacky.

Next up: painting the statue of liberty red, white, and blue! 'Cause, you know, it's a symbol of AMERICA... we wouldn't want anyone remembering that it's a gift from the French.
 
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CurseTheSky said:
Hell no. What a dumb attempt at drumming up patriotism.

If you want us to be proud of our country, do something that will make us proud of our country. Silly things like renaming food items are distasteful and tacky.

Next up: painting the statue of liberty red, white, and blue! 'Cause, you know, it's a symbol of AMERICA... we wouldn't want anyone remembering that it's a gift from the French.
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Well, hot dogs are now hot dogs instead of frankfurters (as they were known prior to WWI) because of the very same anti-enemy patriotic propaganda.


but of course...the French were never our enemies, which makes the freedom fry thing particularly retarded (hilariously enough--they are already offended by the term "French fries." it isn't a French food, and they generally consider it "low class.") Freedom fries would have had the opposite effect from what was intended.
 
zinfamous said:
Well, hot dogs are now hot dogs instead of frankfurters (as they were known prior to WWI) because of the very same anti-enemy patriotic propaganda.


but of course...the French were never our enemies, which makes the freedom fry thing particularly retarded (hilariously enough--they are already offended by the term "French fries." it isn't a French food, and they generally consider it "low class.") Freedom fries would have had the opposite effect from what was intended.
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well it's not like the french don't serve them. In fact, they always serve them at restaurants together with your food.
 
When my daughter joined band at the height of this nonsense, she was given the French Horn, which I immediately dubbed her Freedom Horn, and it's stuck for all these years.

It's a funny inside joke to us, but when I talk to other people and mention it, I forget and get a funny look.
 
cKGunslinger said:
When my daughter joined band at the height of this nonsense, she was given the French Horn, which I immediately dubbed her Freedom Horn, and it's stuck for all these years.

It's a funny inside joke to us, but when I talk to other people and mention it, I forget and get a funny look.
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:hmm: awaiting ATOT to turn this into some dirty joke.
 
zinfamous said:
Well, hot dogs are now hot dogs instead of frankfurters (as they were known prior to WWI) because of the very same anti-enemy patriotic propaganda.


but of course...the French were never our enemies, which makes the freedom fry thing particularly retarded (hilariously enough--they are already offended by the term "French fries." it isn't a French food, and they generally consider it "low class.") Freedom fries would have had the opposite effect from what was intended.
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Not really...from the etymology section of the Wikipedia entrance for "Hot Dog"
The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845.[13]
According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase "hot dog" in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius "TAD" Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.[13] However, TAD's earliest usage of "hot dog" was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term "hot dog" in reference to sausage was already in use.[13][14] In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.[15]
The earliest known usage of "hot dog" in clear reference to sausage, found by Fred R. Shapiro, appeared in the December 31, 1892 issue of the Paterson (NJ) Daily Press.[16]
Somehow or other a frankfurter and a roll seem to go right to the spot where the void is felt the most. The small boy has got on such familiar terms with this sort of lunch that he now refers to it as "hot dog." "Hey, Mister, give me a hot dog quick," was the startling order that a rosy-cheeked gamin hurled at the man as a Press reporter stood close by last night. The "hot dog" was quickly inserted in a gash in a roll, a dash of mustard also splashed on to the "dog" with a piece of flat whittled stick, and the order was fulfilled.
—Paterson Daily Press, Dec. 31, 1892, pg. 5
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Other early uses of "hot dog" in reference to sausage appeared in the New Brunswick (NJ) Daily Times (May 20, 1893), the New York World (May 26, 1893), and the Knoxville (TN) Journal (Sep. 28, 1893).[14]
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1892 was before WW1
 
What is funny was the people saying the word "French" in French fries has nothing to do with France, that is called French fries because of the way it is cut. This is in fact WRONG. The word French for the cutting style in fact is derived from French fries and not they other way around. The word "French" and French fries does in fact refer to French speaking people.

French fries were invented by French speaking people and introduced to the Americans by French speaking people. That is why they are called French Fries, because they were viewed as a French food.
 
DCal430 said:
French fries were invented by French speaking people and introduced to the Americans by French speaking people. That is why they are called French Fries, because they were viewed as a French food.
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Which however, they aren't. The term is, quite simply, a misnomer.

Walloons, the French-speaking Belgians, do NOT consider themselves French any more than French-speaking Swiss consider themselves French or German-speaking Swiss consider themselves German.

This is not a French Waffle:

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And this was never the French Congo:

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So, while these are called french fries in America, they are not and never have been French food:

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