If you haven't heard, French Fries and French toast have quietly reconstituted at the congressional café after a couple of reps' jingoistic jockeying had ludicrously renamed them "freedom fries" three years ago. Apparently it's been decided we need the French after all. Middle East negotiations, you know. Plus the original sycophant sponsors are in varying versions of deep doo-doo.
The reversion may not appease the Belgians but at least its the recognised term. Would you like Persian Pizza with that?
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They'll never learn it...If you haven't heard, French Fries and French toast have quietly reconstituted at the congressional café after a couple of reps' jingoistic jockeying had ludicrously renamed them "freedom fries" three years ago.
LOLThe reversion may not appease the Belgians but at least its the recognised term. Would you like Persian Pizza with that? Mustard please, no ketchup...
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Actually, I continued to call those three comestibles French fries, French toast, and French Dip, just to aggravate the French.
But if French fries are pommes frites in Paris, what do they call fried apples? Pommes Américains?
But if French fries are pommes frites in Paris, what do they call fried apples? Pommes Américains?
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pommes de tree fritesActually, I continued to call those three comestibles French fries, French toast, and French Dip, just to aggravate the French.
But if French fries are pommes frites in Paris, what do they call fried apples? Pommes Américains?
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Potatoes of the Tree Fried? (ewww! fry an apple?)Actually, I continued to call those three comestibles French fries, French toast, and French Dip, just to aggravate the French.
But if French fries are pommes frites in Paris, what do they call fried apples? Pommes Américains?
Seen in a grocery in France: a bottle of what would in the U.S. be called "Russian dressing"; in French: Sauce Américain
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Doesn't feel the same eitherApple fritters and corn fritters=good tasty things!
Funny, there wasn't an outcry against French twists, French cuffs, and certainly not French kissing! (Freedom kissing? Just doesn't sound the same.)
Nor can I recall Freedom Onion Soup, Freedom Letters, Freedom Doors, Freedom Dressing, the Freedom Broad River or even Freedom Apple Pie. Franklly, somebody didn't follow through. And they wanna legislate language? What gaul.
The biggest insult was surely the boycott-of-the-ignorant against French Whine. It did wend its way back in timely fashion though, you can't keep a good wind down.
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Ah, fried apple rings, with a dash of cinnamon and sugar on them as they heat up; great with home fries and an egg over easy and a large pile of bacon (or sausage!).. . .
Potatoes of the Tree Fried? (ewww! fry an apple?)
Seen in a grocery in France: a bottle of what would in the U.S. be called "Russian dressing"; in French: Sauce Américain
Regards//Larry
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