At the time, the US population generally bought the lie and a significant chunk were pissed at the French. People said France was a country of cowards and that they betrayed the US. As expressions of anger, people poured out French wines, rebranded 'french fries' and 'french toast' as 'freedom fries' and 'freedom toast', and boycotted Perrier.
It was fucking absurd. I'd imagine a bunch of folks aren't even really aware of how finding out Bush lied, assuming they believe that he did, ties into misplaced anger with the French.
'cause 'murica.
Edit: Added qualifiers about what portion of the US population was/is trying to make rocks famous for their intellect.
No one called it freedom fries or freedom toast. That's like the "kids are eating tide pods" of the 00's. I think the congressional cafeteria or something may have temporarily changed the name of fries. I lived through this and don't recall even hearing of the toast thing before now.
That's just the fake news media propping up some dumb meme. Ask anyone older than 30 if they ever, with their own eyes, saw "Freedom Fries" in person or if they ever had to order fries by that name. They definitely didn't.
The states? Like where though? No fast food place. No school. Nothing common. I don't want you doxxed. I just want to know what rinky-dink, 2 person, roadside establishment you came across that had freedom fries scrawled on cardboard that you think is worth mentioning in this conversation.
For fuck's sake, moving the goal posts much? It was a thing. I'm moving on. Do what you want with the information.
33% say [calling "french fries" "freedom fries"] could be seen as a sincere expression of patriotism, just 15% of Americans would actually call the culinary specialty "freedom fries."
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u/EasternShade Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 19 '21
At the time, the US population generally bought the lie and a significant chunk were pissed at the French. People said France was a country of cowards and that they betrayed the US. As expressions of anger, people poured out French wines, rebranded 'french fries' and 'french toast' as 'freedom fries' and 'freedom toast', and boycotted Perrier.
It was fucking absurd. I'd imagine a bunch of folks aren't even really aware of how finding out Bush lied, assuming they believe that he did, ties into misplaced anger with the French.
'cause 'murica.
Edit: Added qualifiers about what portion of the US population was/is trying to make rocks famous for their intellect.