Let Freedom (and their parents) Ring! 22:30 16/03/2010, David Farley David Farley, davidfarley, food, french fries, frenchfries, fries, politics, supe

Let Freedom (and their parents) Ring! 22:30 16/03/2010, David Farley David Farley, davidfarley, food, french fries, frenchfries, fries, politics, supercar
Filed under: Food and Beverage, North America, United States

I recently took a trip to Cape Cod for the wedding of a friend. It was my first time in the area and, as I'm used to doing, he intended to eat my way through the coastal towns, stopping at roadside shacks for lobster rolls and fried seafood goodness. So I entered the first restaurant I saw: Marc Anthony at home. It was noon and the checkered tablecloth dresses set was flooded Red Sox Hat local resistance. I ordered a lobster roll, which the cashier yelled to the cooks grill-slaves behind him and then accompanied by French fries.

"And an order of freedom fries," he shouted. At that time, a needle scratching across a record somewhere in the heavens. Huh? Freedom Fries?

Remember those? If not, here is a brief review: the fight against anti-war politicians (and those who loved them) spent the period before the Iraq war by proclaiming the name change in 2003 because the French government's refusal to go along with the Bush administration plan to invade Iraq. Two of the legislators, the congressmen Bob Ney (R-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC), was officially the House cafeteria to rename French fries freedom fries seven years ago last week. They were the first to do this, but press coverage of the event inspired by many restaurants to go to this train jingoistic. In my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, a dinner suddenly began serving onion soup of Liberty. "On a trip to California, I saw" freedom toast "in a breakfast menu.

Two years later, Walter Jones admitted he was wrong to make copies of the justifications for the war and put the French in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the workplace cafeteria. And so, like the reasons given for war, this outbreak of anti-spitting ridiculous freedom gala re-monikering quietly left. At least I thought he did.


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