Fortunately there's a way to prevent violence on the home front. Not that sauerkraut - er, make that liberty cabbage - will be that greatly missed. Still a ban on French fries, ignorant or otherwise, will naturally be followed by interdictions on any comestible that has to do with Germany and Russia (along with the North Koreans and Chinese). French fries, which originated in Belgium, are so called, the Food Lover's Companion notes, "because the potatoes are 'frenched' - cut into lengthwise strips."
How long before some nut case interprets that statement a little too strictly, overhears a fellow patron order French fries, and decides that said customer isn't a patriotic citizen, with fisticuffs shortly to come thereafter? The funny thing is that the point is moot.
Explain freedom fries free#
More like freedom from free speech, if you ask me. PRNewswire reported that the chain's president, Bryce King, believes that "Every guest who steps up to a counter at their local Fuddruckers and says 'Give me Freedom Fries,' shows their true support for those who guard our most important freedoms, especially the freedom from fear." A bit more astonishing, especially if you consider the tongue-in-cheek branding of the chain, is that 200-plus Fuddruckers restaurants will be official purveyor of the freedom fry. Given the collective intelligence there, however, perhaps that's not so much of a surprise.
But as if it weren't dumb enough to think that you can deep-fry a concept and make believe that the French wine industry is really going to suffer because some hicks have poured Beaujolais Nouveau into the gutters - where it should be poured, mind you, given its quality - others actually think this nonsense is a good idea.Ĭapitol Hill, for instance, led by Republican Bob Ney of Ohio, is now serving freedom fries in three cafeterias of the U.S. We've probably all heard by now that North Carolina restaurateur Neal Rowland, angry about France's passive stance on our aggression, renamed French fries in his Cubbie's eatery as "freedom fries." Media-savvy colleagues, who took due note of the publicity he received as a result, followed suit by dumping French wine out in the streets. Prepare yourselves - there's a new political correctness on the horizon, and it concerns our food.
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