Are French fries still freedom fries?

[Tuco]

Questions’ in the title really, I don’t go to fast food establishments if I can help it so I don’t keep up with these things, plus I live in England.

So are French fries still advertised as freedom fries?
Were they ever?

[FairyChatMom]

Searching my dusty, cobwebbed memory banks, I believe it was just the cafeteria at the Capitol and maybe a couple other flaky places that changed the name. I certainly never saw Freedom Fries on a menu. Then again, I don’t generally patronize fast food joints.

I honestly have no idea whether the renegades changed the name back or not.

Not very helpful, am I? <shrug>

[Future_days]

Never heard of Freedom Fries. Sounds like a marketing gimmick that failed.

[Pixisis]

I never called them freedom fries. I don’t think many people did.

My favorite thing about this whole embarrassing episode:

During the interview with the guy who started the whole “freedom fries” thing, he was asked about his business and mentioned that he sold souvenirs. :wally

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

According to wikipedia

“Freedom fries” was a short-lived name used by some in the United States for French fries. The “freedom fries” affair was an unusual example of anti-French sentiment in the United States. In the international debates over the decision to launch the 2003 invasion of Iraq, France expressed opposition to the U.S. insistence on military action.

which implies that they’ve been taken off the menu.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

OTOH, this article claims that you can still dunk your freedom in ketchup on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON – The words “freedom fries” are still on the menu in the U.S. House cafeteria, and are likely to appear in the first line of Walter Jones’ obituary, perhaps with their lesser-known cousin, freedom toast…

“I wish it had never happened,” Jones said.

Like many things about Jones, freedom fries lend themselves to caricature. They are an emotional response to a complex problem, easily reduced to a ticker line on CNN.

[Derleth]

Most fast food places seem to refer to them as ‘fries’ as opposed to ‘french fries’ or ‘freedom fries’. This is not entirely unlike the practice of calling partially-gelatinated sweetened beverages ‘shakes’.

I don’t recall hearing about any national fast-food chain calling anything ‘freedom fries’. It’s the kind of thing that would certainly make the news.

[David_Simmons]

At about the same time as Sen. Hagel (R-NE) questioned the conduct of the Iraq bungle Rep. Bob Ney (R-?), the guy who got ‘freedom fries’ into the Congressional lunch rooms, also publicly changed his stance on the wisdom of the war.

[Future_days]

Freedom Fires? My god, I’d be embarassed if I was an american.

[snailboy]

@Future days

Freedom Fires? My god, I’d be embarassed if I was an american.

So would I… Oh wait, I am.

[picker]

I don’t call them freedom fries, but I happily give out freedom kisses and if you’re really nice you can see my freedom tickler. And in the morning you can have some freedom toast.

Just don’t give any to my Freedom Poodle.

[Bytegeist]

@David Simmons

… Rep. Bob Ney (R-?), the guy who got ‘freedom fries’ into the Congressional lunch rooms, also publicly changed his stance on the wisdom of the war.

Ney represents the Ohio 18th district. (I bet his name causes confusion in the House every time they take a roll-call vote.)

@Future days

Freedom Fires? My god, I’d be embarassed if I was an american.

If we Americans were embarrassed every time our Congressmen did something pinheaded, we’d never get out of bed in the morning.

Anyway, I agree with FairyChatMom. This “freedom fries” inanity was pretty much only in House cafeterias in the Capitol, and a very few other restaurants here and there. I never saw any such thing though in my own experience, and I eat at all sorts of restaurants — ones that serve French fries, or French toast, with pride — all the time.

[Justin_Bailey]

Personal experience answer coming through:

I was at an Old Country Buffet in Rochester, NY with my aunt two weeks ago and the french fries were labeled “Freedom Fries” on the buffet line.

I don’t know if this is a chainwide decision though.

[Cliffy]

@Future days

Freedom Fires? My god, I’d be embarassed if I was an american.

You don’t have any boobs in your country?

–Cliffy

[Gfactor]

The French embassy made no comment, except to note that French fries come from Belgium. “We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes,” said Nathalie Loisau, an embassy spokeswoman.

Freedom fries

Ding ding ding. Knockout!!!

[Mehitabel]

Never saw them here in New York, although sometimes we’d call them that ironically. Did see them in a couple of diners upstate but it would be chalked onto a ‘specials’ board, never printed into an actual menu nor called that by an actual waitress. Actually.

[Cleophus]

Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia changed their menu to read “Freedom Fries” about the time the whole thing started, and probably continues to display it as such. I haven’t been there in a few months.

[betenoir]

@Future days

Freedom Fires? My god, I’d be embarassed if I was an american.

I know I was: http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/253

[Wolfian]

@Cleophus

Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia changed their menu to read “Freedom Fries” about the time the whole thing started, and probably continues to display it as such. I haven’t been there in a few months.

Knew there was a reason I prefered Pat’s.

[John_Carter_of_Mars]

The General cafe in New Site, Alabama still has freedom fries on the menu. You can also get a righteous steak to go with 'em, but whether Charolais cattle are prohibited from being the source of the steak or not I couldn’t say.