- US french fries are British chips.
- US potato chips are British crisps.
Reminds me of:
- US cookies are British biscuits.
- US biscuits are British crackers.
- US crackers are British white people?
- In America a person will sit on their ass. In Britain we may sit on an ass, but not neccesarily one's own ass. We would however sit on our own bums. In America sitting on a bum would be considered impolite, unwise and unhealthy, so a polite person would probably talk about sitting on their fanny. In Britain sitting on your fanny would be considered either uncomfortable or impossible, and would certainly not be polite.
like totally cut from the article:
On March 11, 2003 the cafeteria menus in the three U.S. House of Representatives office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries" in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's opposition to the the U.S. position on Iraq. French toast was also changed to freedom toast (During World War I, in a similar move, attempts were made to replace the word sauerkraut with the term liberty cabbage and frankfurter with hot dog in menus and in popular speech: only the latter was successful. During World War II, French toast replaced German toast as the popular term for that dish.)
Many Europeans dismissed the changes of March 2003 as 'immature gimmackry', in the words of an Irish newspaper. Several American congressmen have agitated for more serious and less symbolic actions to be taken against the French. Others have criticised the behaviour as attempted intimidation of a nation who is entitled to hold a different point of view on an international issue to the United States. Suggestions that some European states should boycott American products and companies such as MacDonalds and that European television stations boycott American programmes have been criticised as stooping to the level of
It's like so out of place to even talk about all that anti-French stuff, you know what I mean? Cuz we need a more awesome segue to like, introduce it, okay? I mean like maybe an anti-French sentiment article or American attitudes towards France or like whatever, you know? --Uncle Ed 21:22 Mar 12, 2003 (UTC)
- Ed, let me state that I don't think french people would feel very happy with the title you gave to that page. I do not. It may be a good title in terms of communication ("percutant" would we say)...but it is slightly unfairly lacking some information. In short : from what I read in the news (your news, mostly cnn, fox is really too depressing), there is indeed a very strong anti-french sentiment. But this sentiment is expressed by *americans* only (are mostly by *far*). The title of this page anti-French sentiment gives the feeling it is something much more general. Anthere
- btw, did you guys decided to rename french kiss to freedom kiss too ? That would be tasty !
well french fries have a different name in capitalist land, it should be mentioned. Just not ALL of it should be here. Susan Mason
- On March 11, 2003 the cafeteria menus in the three U.S. House of Representatives office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries" in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's opposition to the the U.S. position on Iraq.
This section seems like it might be vaguely encyclopedic. I suggest waiting a month and seeing if it still seems important then. Martin
why wait a month? Anything the House does is encyclopedic. Susan Mason
Yeah, like I totally agree that the "menus were changed" part should stay in the article. When I said I "totally" cut it I wasn't all like "completely" cut it it, it just totally wasn't completly pedia-worthy so I like was all get this out in a hurry dude! The "rebuke" part is bitchin'! --Uncle Ed
So like right on, the menu part stays and the rest belongs in its own arty! Susan Mason
Party hearty, here's your arty: --Surfer Dude 21:56 Mar 12, 2003 (UTC)
- You two aren't helping attempts to claim this is a serious encyclopedia... that's like, so totally not cool... ;-) Martin
- Claim, shlame, what's in a name? Havin' fun is the name of the game!! Party on, dice man!! --Surfer Dude
Isn't renaming "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" saying that "French" is synonymous with "Freedom"? This action seems more like a compliment to the French than an insult.
- doesnot everyone knows that french fries are from Belgium ? If so, the compliment is for Belgium people.
But since it is clearly indicated that the first change of that type was done in reference to german sausage changed to freedom sausage (or anything similar) just after WWI, I doubt you could say it is a compliment :-)
Anthere comments on the name of anti-French sentiment, suggesting something like American anti-French sentiment. Of course, then we have to have an edit war over whether that's best, or whether we should have American anti-French bigotry or American anti-French racism. Next someone has to create French anti-Americanism in the name of "balance", and we'll all have a competition to see which page we can make largest.
Or does that only apply for pages concerning the Israel-Palestine conflict? ;-) Martin
sigh, yes.
Fortunately, I know nothing about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, so I won't bother anyone there :-)
Yes, I suppose I would be alone editing the French anti-Americanism. So...in short, what you suggest - for the sake of peace - is that we just pretend that Anti-Americanism does not exist ? That makes sense...Okay, let's concentrate very hard...
- A better solution might be to have an article on American-French relations, which can discuss how French-American relationships have waxed and (recently) waned over recent history. Just an idea.Martin