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This overpatriotic thing is so stupid I just want to move on, but it's so stupid that I can't.
Okay, first of all, I can see renaming German foods during WWII, but the French are not our enemy!
Since at least half the world is opposed to our war efforts on all levels, why are we picking on the French? It's just more French bashing.
And the whole thing seems rather bandwagonesque. I imagine that first McDonalds in North Carolina or wherever thought it would be kind of funny to do, and would gain them a lot of publicity. And then, because they like picking on the French, everyone else started doing it, and then suddenly people started saying, "what the French are doing is just despicable. I just can't bring myself to eat something that's named after them."
And finally, calling them "freedom fries" is stupid. Not only is France no less free than we are, the whole war on Iraq is not about freedom either. Well, except maybe the freedome to attack whomever the hell we want to.
Okay, first of all, I can see renaming German foods during WWII, but the French are not our enemy!
Since at least half the world is opposed to our war efforts on all levels, why are we picking on the French? It's just more French bashing.
And the whole thing seems rather bandwagonesque. I imagine that first McDonalds in North Carolina or wherever thought it would be kind of funny to do, and would gain them a lot of publicity. And then, because they like picking on the French, everyone else started doing it, and then suddenly people started saying, "what the French are doing is just despicable. I just can't bring myself to eat something that's named after them."
And finally, calling them "freedom fries" is stupid. Not only is France no less free than we are, the whole war on Iraq is not about freedom either. Well, except maybe the freedome to attack whomever the hell we want to.
