French fries may be back on DC's menu

[emad]

Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
06 February 2005


Zut alors! What can this be? Is America finally ready to make up with those cheese-eating surrender monkeys? On one level, at least, that appears to be the case. In a festival starting next week called "Paris on the Potomac", the US capital is celebrating the French influence of its origins. The entente may not be entirely cordiale, but at least it is a start.

"Obviously this is a city of diplomacy," Rebecca Paw-lowski, a spokeswoman for the Washington DC Convention and Tourism Corporation, said diplomatically. "The French have always had an important relationship with this country and in the development and layout of this city. We don't have any ill will."

How quickly feelings can change. Just 18 months ago, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, which France had strongly opposed, feelings between the US and France were at their lowest level for probably a generation. Not since President Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from Nato's command structure and ordered US troops off French soil in 1966 had there been such animosity.

The French accused the US of warmongering and arrogance; the US accused the French of cowardice and treachery. In one ludicrous episode, a diner in Beaufort, North Carolina, renamed its french fries "freedom fries". The renaming then caught on in restaurants, cafes and bars all over the country. Even the three cafeterias on Capitol Hill followed suit.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=608198

[Goldeneye]

1. I think the French should tell America to screw off

and they should reposses the statue of liberty. We're a nation idiots and we've abused our friends...

"the US accused the French of cowardice and treachery"

What the hell is that? Everything they did makes absolute sense. Why start a war over nothing?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. they should call them "There's no WMD Fries" eom.

[frylock]

3. or at least change the name of the soup du jour to..

smoking gun in the form of a cream of mushroom cloud soup.