French Fries Vs. Freedom Fries

I think french fries should be banned from the world completely - then there would be no such disagreements - besides, who needs french fries when you have waffle fries and curly fries and steak fries and cheese fries, all so much better and more interesting and tasy than plain ol' french fries...

Bests, Rockefeller

Wintermute wrote:Maybe this is a slightly silly topic, but I am kind of curious and seeing that here are many US Americans around I might get a reliable answer.

I guess you all remember the discussion in the US about the renaming from "French Fries" into "Freedom Fries" some time ago as a protest of the US citizens against France (here a reminder).
I don't want to go into detail, how "meaningful" or "reasonable" this discussion was, but I always thought that this whole debate was just a one time thing and the "Freedom fries" sank into oblivion afterwards.

Now I played the English demo version of the adventure game "Runaway 2" and one character in the game comments that he was eating some dish accompanied with ketchup and "Freedom Fries", which baffled me a little bit.

So my question is:
Is this expression really used nowadays in the US? Do the menus in the restaurants feature this new label or do you still order your common French Fries?

I dont know a single person who says "freedom fries" its probably one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. sorry i didnt read all the posts yet so i may have to edit this...

rockefeller wrote:I think french fries should be banned from the world completely - then there would be no such disagreements - besides, who needs french fries when you have waffle fries and curly fries and steak fries and cheese fries, all so much better and more interesting and tasy than plain ol' french fries...

Bests, Rockefeller

Dont forget chedder fries, OOHHH AND HOT FRIES... gughghghghghgh *runs to store* andy caps, you are my hero...

Only as a joke. It was only ever a joke: originally it was a barbed jab at the French, and now it is only used derisively against those who used it the original way.

I've never once heard the term "freedom fries" used, nor have I seen it on a menu. Of course, I don't frequent the kind of, shall we say, conservative establishments where "freedom fries" might appear on the menu.

I'm just glad it didn't get as far as "freedom kissing."

I've heard of the term, though never heard a single person use it in my vicinity.

Hmmm....freedom kissing?

Let us kiss...for America!
(uncensored freedom kissing ensues!)

Thanks for the info guys, so it is as I expected.
I guess that the comment in the computer game was just a kind of joke and allusion about the type of this special character.

By the way, I overlooked it at first, but even in the Wikipedia-Link, where you could see a picture of the menu with "Freedom fries" from the House of Representatives cafeteria they mentioned at the end of the paragraph:

Wikipedia wrote:By July 2006, the House had quietly changed the name in all its restaurants back to the original "French fries".

Jerry Dan wrote:Only as a joke. It was only ever a joke: originally it was a barbed jab at the French, and now it is only used derisively against those who used it the original way.

For most people this is certainly true, but I remember some TV footage where some people were really angry about France and pretty serious about this whole "Freedom" and "Fries" business.

I guess when Germany will fall in such a "disgrace" of the USA in the future, MC Donalds and Burger King would have a big problem, since they have to rename in all their menus and wrappings the "Hambuger" to "Freedom Burger".

GarySogar wrote:I'm just glad it didn't get as far as "freedom kissing."

Since the conservative generally don't talk about these things in public they may be even refuse to think about this.

Freedom fries: Another proud moment in American history!

Whoever says freedom fries should be punched in the back of the head.

Don't forget chilli-cheese fries! Just make sure there's a restroom close by. Still, thet're the best.

freepizza wrote:Whoever says freedom fries should be punched in the back of the head.

*Donkey Punch*

Thankfully I've never used the term Freedom Fries, nor seen it used on a menu. It is just an example of the fine work our legislature does.

Jim, are those the kind you need to prepare for before eating? I mean, like make sure you have your toiletpaper cooled off in the refridgerator before you eat it?

I've always referred to such foodstuffs as 'surprise food', because they have a tendency to reappear in your life (or worst case scenario: pants) when you least expect it.

-Fred

Yes. I think the whole "freedom fries" thing is basically a joke, but hatred of the French is not new.

The French have always been the butt of jokes whether it is their pansy like powdered wigs, the fact that they always surrender before every battle, their arrogance, the fact that they have had one good king in their history, that French movies are know mainly as porn, etc, etc.

The French make an easy target and with Chirac taking kick backs from Saddam while decrying the US, it just made "freedom fries" more fun. No restaraunt that I know of actually renamed their fries, but I do know that some people tried to boycott French wine for a while.