pommes frites

posted by catherine / May 25, 2005 /

can you believe they *still* haven't changed the freedom back to french?

Walter Jones, the Republican congressman for North Carolina who was also the brains behind french toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants, told a local newspaper the US went to war "with no justification".

Mr Jones, who in March 2003 circulated a letter demanding that the three cafeterias in the House of Representatives' office buildings ban the word french from menus, said it was meant as a "light-hearted gesture".

But the name change, still in force, made headlines around the world, both for what it said about US-French relations and its pettiness.

Now Mr Jones appears to agree. Asked by a reporter for the North Carolina News and Observer about the name-change campaign - an idea Mr Jones said at the time came to him by a combination of God's hand and a constituent's request - he replied: "I wish it had never happened."

really? god's hand helped you decide on that clever name change? tell me more.

Comments

huh. I thought Bob Ney was responsible for "freedom fries"?

link

I guess maybe this dummy came up with the idea and Ney enacted it

Posted by: tom on May 25, 2005 02:57 PM

Wait a minute! Jones was guided by God.... Jones was wrong... Does that mean that God was wrong? God's infallibility has been shattered?? Ommigod I think I feel the universe collapsing!!

Posted by: Underused on May 25, 2005 03:13 PM

Where are my goddam pictures??????!!!!!

Posted by: Marggie on May 26, 2005 06:34 AM

I went to my fave burger joint in Wilmington to get some grub and they had freedom fries on the menu. I almost walked out. Almost.

Posted by: information leafblower on May 26, 2005 10:01 AM

Aren't you glad you were out of the country for this one? I know I am.

Posted by: Julie on May 26, 2005 10:38 AM

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