Yay! The House gets 'Freedom Fries' and 'Freedom Toast'.

[katster]

Your tax dollars hard at work.

Y'know, if we're going to be this angry about the French (and doing stupid things with it), why don't we just give the Statue of Liberty back? I mean, the French made it. Hell, why don't we give ourselves back to England? The French helped our revolution. Fucking ungrateful idiots in Congress.

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[bassbone.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh... The French gave us very limited support in the Revolution compared to what we did for them in WWI and WWII... I'd say the score is even, or maybe tipped in our favor. Either way, there's nothing ungrateful about it. French fries and french toast aren't even french, anyway...

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Bigotry's bigotry. Call it ungrateful or whatever else.

A lot of Americans seem embarrassed to admit that the French actually did help them during the Revolution, but dismissals don't change what happened. Holding some kind of deluded grudge against them because of the Second World War is no better than going dismissing anything a German says because hey, they're all Nazis anyway.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

This stuff is all just so idiotic. Congress members were apparently trying to be funny but I, for one, don't find it amusing. On the other hand, this statement in the article did make me laugh: "The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium."

[bassbone.livejournal.com]

I don't hate the French, and I don't mind thaat they helped during the Revolution, but that was over 200 years ago. It's French policy I don't like right now. As for Germany, it's the same thing.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the French Embassy's retort was pretty funny. %) But I could ignore it when it was a few people down in the South thought it was a good idea, but ... it stinks when it comes to Congress doing it in their own cafeteria. :P

-kat

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

WWII was about sixty years ago; from where I am it's getting towards time to stop preening about that too. My problem right now is with people not finding a problem in doing infantile stuff like changing French fries and German measles to freedom fries and liberty measles as if the words themselves are obscenities - and then looking around wondering why the rest of the world finds them to be childish.

[kuangning]

Hah! That was my first question too. "So, when are we returning the Statue of Liberty?" And it's really ridiculous. The act itself is amusing, but the mindset it's feeding into is just chilling.

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

Honeychile, Ah purely hate to be the one to break this to y'all, but them boys 'n' gals in the Hause of Representatives are "just a few people down in the South." An' like all small-town folks, they gets to thinking that they'ns the most impahtant people on this here planet.

::runs from the crowds of furious Southerners::

[smcwhort.livejournal.com]

All that stupid story encouraged me to do is make French toast for dinner. And hell if I'm going to call it "Freedom toast".

[zorbathut.livejournal.com]

I think I'll start calling it "Dictator Toast".

"But it's more American!"

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

Nono, you're forgetting those classics from the late 60s/early 70s:

Hegemony Fries!
Imperial Toast!

And to those who think this is not serious:

"The devil, that proud spirit, cannot bear to be mocked." --Milton

[shandrew.livejournal.com]

Personally i think these stupid things are deliberately created to distract people who are opposed to the war from the real issues. I must have read about this name change fifty times in the last two days, while seeing maybe only one or two thoughtful articles about the pending war.