A better idea would be to tear out every page in the Bible that features an Iraqi place name, such as Babylon, Babel, the Garden of Eden, Nineveh, and Ur. There’s probably not much point in going after Iraqi food such as masgoof (barbecued fish) and pacha (sort of an Iraqi haggis) because Americans don’t eat them. If chauvinistic warmongers want to start renaming stuff, it should be Iraqi stuff. Germany, after all, was America’s enemy, whereas France is America’s NATO ally. But it wasn’t as ridiculous as Ney’s current demonization of France. In retrospect, this demonization of all things German seems ridiculous. It’s an echo of the propaganda frenzy against Germany during World War I, when Americans renamed sauerkraut “liberty cabbage,” dachshunds “liberty dogs,” hamburgers “liberty steaks,” and German measles “liberty measles.” Beethoven was banned outright.
Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican) is meant to demonize France for its exasperating refusal to support a war against Iraq. ' The Interplay of Cultural Aversion and Assortativity for the Emergence of Cooperation ,' Center for Economic Research (RECent) 121, University of Modena and Reggio E., Dept. Ennio Bilancini & Leonardo Boncinelli & Jiabin Wu, 2016. No word yet on whether the House similarly plans to adopt the neologisms “freedom horn,” “freedom doors,” “freedom kissing,” and “freedom tickler.” 'Freedom Fries,' CEP Discussion Papers dp0815, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who chairs the committee on House administration. Instead, the cafeterias will offer “freedom fries” and “freedom toast.” It has been so decreed by Rep. We still support our troops, and we still call them freedom fries.Henceforth, french fries and French toast will no longer be served in the cafeterias of the House of Representatives’ three office buildings. "It was never about politics," Rowland said of his initial decision to rename french fries "freedom fries." France is going conservative and Walter is going liberal."īut Rowland tried to downplay the political significance of his latest maneuver.
A French news agency recently contacted him about that country's new conservative government, and the owner said, "I had to laugh. The entire freedom fries episode still humors the small-town restaurant owner who made big news in 2003. In addition, Rowland is supporting the congressman's primary opponent, Joe McLaughlin, a retired Army Ranger who is running on a "support for the troops" platform to unseat the veteran lawmaker in a district that includes four major military installations. French fries (North American English), chips (British English), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are batonnet or allumette-cut deep-fried potatoes, disputed origin from Belgium and France. "Walter wants to distance himself from freedom fries, and I'll oblige him," the Cubbie's owner said in the release. He also took the formal step of issuing a press release to criticize Jones for his votes supporting a withdrawal - and perhaps gin up a bit more business. So Rowland finally decided to ditch the photo during a little spring cleaning earlier this year. In 2005, Jones even lamented the freedom fries charade.Īccording to Cubbie's owner Neal Rowland, in light of those votes, patrons have questioned the presence of the congressman's photo on a wall cluttered with tributes to the troops. Jones, a religious conservative who has since reversed his support for the war, voted with Democrats on several measures already this year to force the withdrawal of U.S. Jones made his name on the national stage four years ago when he changed the name of french fries in the Capitol cafeteria to the more jingoistic "freedom fries." The congressman borrowed the gesture from the restaurant Cubbie's in Beaufort, N.C., to express congressional frustration with those gastronomes on the other side of the Atlantic for opposing U.S.
Now the restaurant that made him famous is disavowing the North Carolina Republican.
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